AWS re:Invent 2025 featured the usual firehose of news, announcements and tech talks, but it's also clear that AWS is becoming a different company. Yes, AWS is firmly committed to developers and dedicated to creating building blocks needed to scale agentic AI. But AWS is clearly more than an infrastructure company now. Yet it is not quite a software company either.
AWS re:Invent marked a pivotal shift in the cloud giant's trajectory. Moving beyond its traditional focus on core compute primitives, AWS is aggressively "moving up the stack" to dominate applied AI, data strategy, and agentic frameworks.
AWS launched new Graviton5 based instances with 192 core per chip and a 5x larger cache as the company continues its custom processor cadence.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Trainium 3 early demand is strong, the company's hardware ambitions revolve around providing cloud services and enterprises are seeing strong returns amid AI bubble talk.
Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Agentic AI, made the case that AWS' suite of AI tools is best suited for wrangling AI agents and customizing models to deliver business outcomes.
Amazon's Kiro, Amazon Web Services' next-gen AI developer platform, is launching in preview for individual users with an autonomous agent for each developer, integration with GitHub and issue assignments.
Amazon Web Services is adding AI agent policy and evaluation features to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in a move that aims to solve the big issues that keep enterprises from moving from proof of concept to production.
With Amazon Nova Forge, AWS is looking to deliver real enterprise outcomes. The reality has been that off-the-shelf foundational models are inaccurate in many enterprise use cases. When enterprises build on top of open source models, results can degrade as more data is added.
Amazon Web Services launched AWS Transform custom, which is a new agent to modernize the custom code that got you into your technical debt pickle in the first place.
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are making their clouds interoperable in a move that will be welcomed by multicloud enterprises.
AWS Marketplace is moving beyond apps to offer multiple products bundled into one package, faster private offers and agent mode. AWS Marketplace is also accelerating processes post purchase.
AWS CEO Matt Garman at re:Invent 2024 elaborated on the company's strategy to serve up foundational building blocks, Intel's future, model choices, sustainability and why storylines about Trainium competing with Nvidia are misplaced.
