Most Exciting Updates from AWS re:Invent 2025

In Today’s Cloudbites:

📣 Exciting Announcements from AWS re:Invent

📈 AWS CEO’s Vision for 2026

☁️ Online Cloud Events to Look Forward to

✈️ PLUS: My experience as a 3rd time re:Invent attendee

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Hi friends, welcome back to Cloudbites

In this newsletter, we’ll walk through the biggest highlights of AWS re:Invent 2025, including breakthroughs in AI agents, new infrastructure updates, and next-gen cloud capabilities.

I’ll also share my personal experience attending re:Invent third time this year.

Don’t Miss Out on These Exciting Announcements from Qlik

One of my favourite booths at AWS re:Invent 2025 was Qlik, they had fun hands-on activities, amazing swag, and an exciting look into how their data portfolio is evolving for the AI era.

Qlik helps teams turn raw data into meaningful insights with powerful AI-powered analytics and robust data integration, tailored to meet the evolving needs of enterprise organisations.

Whether you’re using agents to search for quick answers, meeting regional sovereignty requirements, or feeding AI with trusted, governed data, Qlik delivers enterprise-grade solutions that are fast, intuitive, and impactful.

📊 Check out Qlik’s announcements from re:Invent here.

CLOUD COMPUTING ☁️

📣 Exciting Announcements from AWS re:Invent

For those who might not know, AWS re:Invent is the ultimate learning conference for the global cloud computing community, hosted by AWS. 

AWS re:Invent 2025 introduced several major updates across AI agents, compute, storage, and next-generation data systems.

Here are the main highlights:

#1 Launch of Amazon AgentCore

Amazon AgentCore is a new framework for building autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks, invoke tools, and orchestrate workflows across AWS services.

AgentCore provides built-in planning, memory, and guardrails, allowing teams to develop production-ready agents that operate safely inside enterprise environments.

#2 Introduction of AWS Frontier Agents

AWS introduced Frontier Agents, a collection of advanced prebuilt AI agents designed to showcase what fully autonomous systems can accomplish inside an enterprise.

These agents demonstrate real-world automation patterns across key domains:

• DevOps agents that investigate incidents, propose fixes, and execute actions.

• Security agents that analyse threats and generate remediation steps.

• Operations agents that monitor systems and optimise workflows.

• Business agents who handle complex tasks such as forecasting and reporting.

#3 New Trainium3-Powered UltraServers

AWS unveiled Trainium3, its newest AI accelerator, along with a new generation of UltraServers designed for high-performance model training and inference.

This update significantly elevates AWS’s AI compute capabilities. Here are some details revealed this year:

• Next-generation chip architecture for faster training.

• UltraServers combining optimized compute, storage, and networking.

• Support for large model training and low-latency inference at scale.

#4 Native Vector Support in Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Vectors adds native vector storage and similarity search directly inside S3.

It allows developers to store embeddings at scale and build RAG pipelines or agent memory systems without needing a separate vector database.

📈 AWS CEO’s Vision for 2026

As we look ahead to 2026, AWS CEO Matt Garman shared a clear view of how AI will shape the coming year.

His keynote highlighted a shift toward intelligent systems that don’t just assist us, but actively carry out meaningful work inside organisations.

Here’s a glimpse into Garman’s thoughts on the key forces transforming the cloud and AI landscape in 2025:

#1 AI agents will become central to how businesses operate

Garman highlighted that customers now expect AI systems that can take actions, not just provide answers.

These agents will run workflows, resolve operational tasks, and support teams across engineering, customer support, and security.

As he put it, the question is no longer “What can AI tell us?” but “What can AI reliably do for us?”

#2 Enterprises will demand secure, governed, & controllable AI

A major theme of the keynote was trust. Organisations want AI they can audit, monitor, and constrain, systems that respect data boundaries and behave predictably at scale.

According to Garman, strong governance will be the foundation for the next wave of enterprise AI adoption.

#3 The Cloud Will Evolve for Greater Efficiency and Scale

Beyond AI, Garman stressed that customers still expect the cloud to be faster, more cost-efficient, and more resilient than ever.

He emphasised that AWS is enhancing compute, storage, and energy-efficient infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable performance worldwide.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS ✨

✈️ PLUS: My experience as a 3rd time re:Invent attendee

This was my third time attending re:Invent, and it was a reminder that the journey of learning never stops.

As a former AWS employee, I’ve seen how learning & building meaningful connections make the career journey so much more rewarding.

Now, as a Cloud creator, I'm continuously staying up to date with the latest updates in Cloud & AI, and meeting inspiring people.

Each re:Invent is an opportunity to grow, connect, and be inspired, and I loved every moment of it!

If you missed it, I'd recommend catching the session replays once they become available online. 

THAT’S A WRAP

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