Next week, don’t miss AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, 2025, for the latest AWS news, expert insights, and global cloud community connections! Our News Blog team is finalizing posts to introduce the most exciting launches from our service teams. If you’re joining us in person in Las Vegas, review the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides before arriving. Can’t attend in person? Watch our Keynotes and Innovation Talks via livestream.

Kiro is now generally available
Last week, Kiro, the first AI coding tool built around spec-driven development, became generally available. This tool, which we pioneered to bring more clarity and structure to agentic workflows, has already been embraced by over 250,000 developers since its preview release. The GA launch introduces four new capabilities: property-based testing for spec correctness (which measures whether your code matches what you specified); a new way to checkpoint your progress on Kiro; a new Kiro CLI bringing agents to your terminal; and enterprise team plans with centralized management.

Last week’s launches
We’ve announced numerous new feature and service launches as we approach re:Invent week. Key launches include:

• Accelerate large-scale AI applications with the new Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances
• Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages for website delivery and security
• New Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with cost
• Monitor network performance and traffic across your EKS clusters with Container Network Observability
• New: AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations
• AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience
• New business metadata features in Amazon SageMaker Catalog to improve discoverability across organizations
• Streamlined multi-tenant application development with tenant isolation mode in AWS Lambda
• Accelerate workflow development with enhanced local testing in AWS Step Functions
• Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation
• Introducing attribute-based access control for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets
• Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region
• Build production-ready applications without infrastructure complexity using Amazon ECS Express Mode
• New one-click onboarding and notebooks with a built-in AI agent in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
• Simplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws login’

Here are some AWS bundled feature launches:

• Amazon EKS announces new Provisioned Control Plane, and fully managed MCP servers (preview) and enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the console with Amazon ECS.
• Amazon ECR introduces managed container image signing, archive storage class for rarely accessed container images, and AWS PrivateLink for FIPS Endpoints.
• Amazon Aurora DSQL provides an integrated query editor in the console, statement-level cost estimates in query plans, new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors, up to 256 TiB of storage volume.
• Amazon API Gateway supports response streaming for REST APIs, developer portal capabilities, and additional TLS security policies for REST APIs.
• Amazon Connect provides conversational analytics for voice, persistent agent connections for faster call handling, and multi skill agent scheduling.
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces scheduled queries in Logs Insights and in-console agent management on EC2.
• AWS CloudFormation StackSets offers deployment ordering for auto-deployment mode. You can define the sequence in which your stack instances automatically deploy across accounts and Regions.
• AWS NAT Gateway supports Regional availability to create a single NAT Gateway that automatically expands and contracts across availability zones (AZs).
• Amazon Bedrock supports OpenAI GPT OSS models for Custom Model Import, coding use cases for Guardrails, and 10 additional languages for speech analytics for Data Automation.
• Amazon OpenSearch supports Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility, backup and restore and audit logs for data plane APIs in Serverless through the console.

See AWS What’s New for more launch news that I haven’t covered here, and we’ll see you next week at re:Invent!

– Channy