Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2025: Recap

AWS re:Invent 2025 has just wrapped up, and this 14th annual event was packed with exciting developments as well as the latest industry news and trends. 

Attracting tens of thousands of people, the cloud landscape was well represented by technical architects and IT leaders to builders, developers, partners, and global enterprises.

Held from December 1–5, 2025, in Las Vegas, this year’s event was a celebration of what’s next in the cloud, with five powerful keynotes, dozens of innovation talks, and hundreds of sessions exploring how organizations are reinventing themselves in the age of AI.

Unsurprisingly, agentic AI took center stage. AWS showcased major leaps forward in silicon performance, infrastructure agility, and tools designed to make AI development faster, more accessible, and more secure. New innovations like Amazon Nova Act, Trainium3 UltraServers, and Graviton5 processors reflect AWS’s vision to help clients build and scale with intelligence, all while keeping simplicity, performance, and security at the core.

If you couldn’t make it to Vegas this year, we’ve put this article together for you. Here’s our official recap of the 2025 AWS re:Invent keynotes plus EPI-USE’s contributions to the event, collated for your learning and inspiration.

Key Announcements from the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynotes

1. Matt GarmanCEO, AWS: Inventing What’s Next

Matt Garman, CEO at AWS, opened the week with a keynote focused on how AWS is evolving its foundational infrastructure to meet the needs of modern AI workloads. He reaffirmed AWS’s mission to empower customers and partners to innovate without compromise thanks to scalable infrastructure, custom silicon, and an expansive suite of AI-ready services.

Among the headline announcements:

• Graviton5 CPUs: AWS’s next-generation ARM-based chips, offering higher performance and better efficiency across cloud workloads.

• Trainium3 UltraServers: Designed for training large AI models with significant speed and cost advantages.

Garman emphasized that this isn’t just about more power: it’s about helping businesses move faster and smarter in building intelligent applications.

2. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian: The Future of Agentic AI is Here

Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, Agentic AI at AWS, focused his keynote on agentic AI; the emerging approach where AI agents can act autonomously, recall context, and solve complex problems across environments.

Three standout announcements from Swami’s session included:

• AgentCore Episodic Memory:
  Enables AI agents to recall specific experiences for better contextual understanding.

• Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) in Amazon Bedrock:
  Automates model refinement and improves accuracy by up to 66%, even without deep ML expertise.

• Amazon Nova Act:
  A new service to manage fleets of AI agents capable of automating user interface workflows — already showing 90% success rates in enterprise use cases.

The overarching theme: AWS is breaking down the barriers to building intelligent agents, making it easier for any developer to move from idea to production with real-world AI.

3. Dr. Ruba Borno: The Partnership Advantage

Dr. Ruba Borno, VP, Global Specialists and Partners at AWS, highlighted the critical role of the AWS Partner Network (APN) in enabling clients to bring AI-powered solutions to market quickly and responsibly. She emphasized how partners, like those in the EPI-USE ecosystem, are driving innovation in AI, security, and digital modernization.

Key announcements included:

• Partner Connections (Preview): A new simplified co-sell experience between partners and AWS.

• AI Security Specializations: Enhanced competencies to help customers find partners with deep security expertise.Updates to the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), aimed at helping clients streamline modernization efforts in the AI era.

4. Peter DeSantis & Dave Brown: Infrastructure Innovations

This duo of infrastructure leaders took the stage to unveil advances in compute, storage, and AI performance, with a sharp focus on cost-efficiency, elasticity, and performance at scale. Peter DeSantis, SVP, Utility Computing, AWS  & Dave Brown, VP, Compute and ML Services, AWS. 

Key infrastructure advancements included:

• Graviton5 processors:
  Delivering the next leap in energy-efficient performance.
  
• Project Mantle:
  A new inference engine that powers Amazon Bedrock, designed to optimize AI workloads across the board.
  
• Core service upgrades to Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda, reducing latency and improving scalability for data-driven and serverless architectures.

Their message was clear: AWS infrastructure is built to meet the performance and sustainability demands of an AI-powered future.

5. Dr. Werner Vogels: A Special Closing Keynote

In his always-anticipated closing keynote, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com, delivered a message of empowerment, highlighting how developers are central to solving society’s most challenging problems through curiosity, judgment, and community.

He urged teams to lean into the “age of accelerated invention”, where AI is not just a tool, but a collaborator. Vogels shared:

• The importance of embracing ambiguity and leading with creativity.

• How developers are vital to scaling secure, evolvable systems in the AI era.

• That curiosity and community are essential traits for solving complex technical challenges.

EPI-USE at AWS re:Invent 2025: Our Highlights

As a Premier AWS Consulting Partner, the EPI-USE Services for AWS team returned to Las Vegas with our largest presence yet at AWS re:Invent 2025. 

Through dynamic collaborations, powerful sessions, and high-impact initiatives with AWS, AMD, Valcann, and our clients, we showcased how organizations can modernize smarter, reduce cloud waste, and build intelligent, cost-optimized workloads on AWS.

Here are five standout moments from the week:

1. Podcast with Jon Myer: The Real Cost of Cloud Migration

Chris Townsend, Senior Director at EPI-USE Services for AWS, joined industry personality Jon Myer for a must-listen podcast episode recorded live at re:Invent. Together, they unpacked key insights around migration inefficiencies, the surprising levels of waste found in legacy environments, and how EPI-USE’s AWS-funded W.H.A.L.E. Assessment helps identify hidden costs, licensing risks, and performance gaps.

2. Live Session with AMD: Cloud Smarter, Not Harder

EPI-USE took the stage at AMD’s re:Invent theater, where Chris Townsend presented Cloud Smarter, Not Harder. The session explored how clients are leveraging AMD-powered infrastructure to cut cloud waste, improve performance, and realize measurable AWS savings. Held on December 4 at the Venetian Expo, the talk drew strong attendance from organizations looking to scale efficiently and sustainably.

3. 1:1 Strategy Sessions: Real Solutions, Real Results

Throughout the week, our leadership and technical experts hosted private strategy sessions with clients and partners. These focused conversations tackled everything from ERP modernization and migration prep to cost governance, AI alignment, and managed services, offering tailored guidance to help teams drive meaningful transformation in 2026.

4. Client & Partner Event: A Night at Sphere Las Vegas

One of the week’s most exclusive experiences was our VIP night at Sphere, hosted in partnership with Valcann (an EPI-USE company). Guests were treated to The Wizard of Oz in stunning 4D, complete with premium seating, VIP lounge access, and collector memorabilia. This intimate evening of connection and celebration brought together clients, partners, and EPI-USE leaders for a truly unforgettable experience.

5. AWS MSP Testimonial Filming: Powered by AWS Studios

During re:Invent, EPI-USE was selected by AWS to record a Managed Service Provider testimonial with AWS Studios. This upcoming video, set to feature on the official AWS YouTube channel, will highlight our work delivering operational excellence, cost control, and end-to-end resilience for clients with business-critical workloads, particularly in the SAP and ERP space.

EPI-USE and AWS: Continued Cloud Success in 2026

Beyond all the fantastic product launches, AWS re:Invent 2025 was a celebration of community, innovation, and impact. 

As we look to 2026 and beyond, EPI-USE remains committed to helping clients simplify the cloud, accelerate their transformation journeys, and unlock the full value of AWS.

If you couldn’t make this year’s re:Invent, we hope this article and our video below could fill in the gaps:

Click here to watch our full video recap.

Furthermore, if you missed out on joining us in Las Vegas, we invite you to attend our re:Invent re:Cap Lunch & Learn in Alpharetta, Georgia on December 16, 2025, where we’ll break down the most relevant takeaways for your roadmap.

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