Securing a city-sized event: How Amazon integrates physical and logical security at re:Invent
Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the Amazon Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles and nearly seven million square feet across the bustling Las Vegas Strip.
Keeping all 60,000 in-person attendees, 400,000 online participants, and their data secure requires a sophisticated blend of physical and logical security measures—a challenge that we’ve addressed by building an integrated security strategy that brings both sides together. We used every resource available to us, including drones, K9 units, our network security teams, and much more, to help protect every person attending the event and their data.
At Amazon, our physical security and information security (logical) teams work together to secure our customers, employees, and infrastructure across our diverse range of businesses at scale against a wide range of threats. At large events such as re:Invent, this integrated approach allows us to protect the many aspects of our event—from our attendees, to our on-site computers and servers, to our Wi-Fi network and its users—as comprehensively as possible.
