Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025

We’re rounding up the most exciting and impactful announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025, which takes place November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. This guide highlights the innovations that will help you build, scale, and transform your business in the cloud.

We’ll update this roundup throughout re:Invent with our curation of the major announcements from each keynote session and more. To see the complete list of all AWS launches, visit What’s New with AWS.

(This post was updated 3:54 p.m. PST, Dec. 2, 2025.)

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Compute | Containers | Database | Global Infrastructure | Management & Governance | Migration & Modernization | Networking & Content Delivery | Partner Network | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Storage

Analytics

AWS Clean Rooms launches privacy-enhancing dataset generation for ML model training
Train ML models on sensitive collaborative data by generating synthetic datasets that preserve statistical patterns while protecting individual privacy through configurable noise levels and protection against re-identification.

Artificial Intelligence

Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: Our new speech-to-speech model for conversational AI]
Build more natural voice interactions with enhanced speech-to-speech AI—now featuring multilingual conversations, dynamic speech control, crossmodal inputs, and improved telephony integration while maintaining conversation context across tasks.

Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model
Nova 2 Lite offers fast, cost-effective AI for everyday tasks. It features extended thinking capabilities, built-in tools, and a million-token context window.

Introducing Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Nova
New program gives organizations unprecedented access to Nova model training, so they can build custom frontier models that deeply embed domain expertise without the traditional barriers of cost, compute, and time.

Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Omni in Preview
Our all-in-one model for multimodal reasoning and image generation supports text, images, video, and speech inputs while generating both text and image outputs.

Build reliable AI agents for UI workflow automation with Amazon Nova Act, now generally available
New AWS service helps developers build AI agents that automate browser-based tasks like form filling, search & extract, shopping & booking, and QA testing—with over 90% reliability for enterprise deployments.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents
New capabilities help companies deploy agents with enhanced policy controls, quality monitoring, improved memory, and natural conversation abilities—making it easier to confidently scale AI solutions across your organization.

Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance
Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors’ general availability—now supporting up to 2 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

Access fully managed foundation models from leading providers like Google, Kimi AI, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Qwen, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B models through Amazon Bedrock.

Accelerate AI development using Amazon SageMaker AI with serverless MLflow
Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker’s model customization and pipeline capabilities.

Compute

Introducing Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for memory-intensive workloads
New memory-optimized instances deliver up to 5 GHz processor speeds and 3 TiB of memory—ideal for electronic design automation workloads and memory-intensive databases requiring high single-threaded performance.

Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all infrastructure management.

Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda Durable Functions
New Lambda capability lets you build applications that coordinate multiple steps reliably over extended periods—from seconds to up to one year—without paying for idle compute time when waiting for external events or human decisions.

Containers

Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management
Streamline Kubernetes development with fully managed platform capabilities that handle workload orchestration and cloud resource management, eliminating infrastructure maintenance while providing enterprise-grade reliability and security.

Database

Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS DatabasesNew pricing model helps maintain cost efficiency while providing flexibility with database services and deployment options.

Amazon OpenSearch Service improves vector database performance and cost with GPU-acceleration and auto-optimization
Build and optimize large-scale vector databases up to 10 times faster and at a quarter of the cost with new GPU acceleration and auto-optimization capabilities that automatically balance search quality, speed, and resource usage.

Global Infrastructure

Introducing AWS AI Factories
Deploy fully managed AWS AI infrastructure in your data centers with pre-integrated foundation models, specialized hardware, and AWS services—helping enterprises and governments accelerate AI initiatives while meeting data residency requirements.

Management & Governance

AWS DevOps Agent helps you accelerate incident response and improve system reliability (preview)
Acting as an autonomous on-call engineer, AWS DevOps Agent analyzes data across CloudWatch, GitHub, ServiceNow, and other tools to identify root causes and coordinate incident response.

New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance
Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.

Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance
Reduce data management complexity and costs with automatic normalization across sources, native analytics integration, and built-in support for industry-standard formats like OCSF and Apache Iceberg.

Migration & Modernization

Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
Modernize enterprise applications at scale with this new AI-powered service that learns your organization’s patterns, automates transformations across repositories, and cuts execution time by up to 80% through both pre-built and custom capabilities.

AWS Transform for mainframe introduces Reimagine capabilities and automated testing functionality
New AI-powered capabilities help transform legacy mainframe applications into cloud-native architectures while automating complex testing processes—reducing modernization timelines from years to months through intelligent analysis and automated test generation.

Networking & Content Delivery

Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
Simplify hybrid DNS management with a unified service that resolves public and private domains globally through secure, anycast-based resolution while reducing operational overhead and maintaining consistent security controls.

Partner Network

AWS Partner Central now available in AWS Management Console
Access Partner Central directly through the AWS Console to streamline your journey from customer to Partner—manage solutions, opportunities, and marketplace listings in one unified interface with enterprise-grade security.

Security, Identity, & Compliance

New AWS Security Agent secures applications proactively from design to deployment (preview)
Scale your AppSec expertise with AI-powered design reviews, code analysis, and contextual penetration testing that understand your unique security requirements and application architecture.

Amazon GuardDuty adds Extended Threat Detection for Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Extended Threat Detection now provides unified visibility across virtual machine and container environments—helping teams identify complex, multi-stage attacks that span diverse AWS workloads supporting the same application.

AWS Security Hub now generally available with near real-time analytics and risk prioritization
Security Hub helps teams respond faster to risks by correlating security signals in near real-time across AWS environments.

Storage

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now integrates with Amazon S3 for seamless data access
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now lets you access file system data through Amazon S3, enabling seamless integration with AWS analytics, ML, and generative AI services without moving or copying data.

Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables
New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.

Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
New capabilities help optimize application performance, analyze unlimited prefixes, and simplify metrics analysis through S3 Tables integration.