AWS re:Inforce 2022 was a conference focused on cloud security, bringing together security practitioners and experts to discuss AWS services, features, and tools. The key takeaways from the conference emphasized the importance of implementing security in the beginning of the cycle, prioritizing least privilege, IAM, data visibility, and security. New features announced included Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for EBS volumes, Amazon Detective for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS SSO rebranded as IAM Identity Center, and AWS Config now supporting compliance scores. The conference also highlighted the importance of a layered defense strategy, stronger together approach, and democratizing security ownership within organizations. Additionally, AWS announced new tools such as AWS Wickr, an end-to-end encrypted enterprise communication service, and AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights, which provides real-time security information for third-party software vendors.