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re:Invent: Issue 205

re:Invent: Issue 205

▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Omni in Preview
▪️ Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time conversational AI
▪️ Amazon Nova Act automate production UI workflows
▪️ Amazon Nova Forge Build your own Frontier Models using Nova
▪️ Amazon Q now can analyze SES email sending
▪️ API Gateway adds MCP proxy support
▪️ AWS AI Factories new service
▪️ AWS AI League 2026 Championship
▪️ AWS DevOps Agent frontier agent for operational excellence | Preview
▪️ AWS Interconnect
     ▫️last mile | Preview
     ▫️multicloud | Preview
▪️ AWS MCP Server in Preview
▪️ AWS Security Agent AI agent for proactive app security | Preview
▪️ AWS Support AI-powered operations with the human expertise you trust
▪️ AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Amazon Nova 2
     ▫️+18 fully managed open-weight models, the largest expansion of new models to date
     ▫️Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3
     ▫️reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models
     ▫️Responses API from OpenAI
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore now includes Policy, Evaluations (preview) and more
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming

▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases Multimodal retrieval | GA

▪️ Clean Rooms synthetic dataset generation training custom ML training
▪️ CloudWatch GenAI observability now supports Amazon AgentCore Evaluations
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️incident reports now support Five Whys analysis
     ▫️simplified enablement of AWS CloudTrail events
     ▫️unified management and analytics for operational, security, and compliance data
▪️ Connect
     ▫️agentic self-service with more natural, expressive, and adaptive voice interactions
     ▫️agent workspace now supports custom visual themes
     ▫️AI agent assistance and summarization for Agentforce Service
     ▫️AI-powered case summaries
     ▫️AI-powered predictive insights | Preview
     ▫️automated email responses using conditional keywords and phrases
     ▫️automated performance evaluations for self-service interactions
     ▫️creation of custom metrics for use in dashboards and APIs
     ▫️custom UIs to adjust contact center configurations in real time
     ▫️enhances its agent assistance capabilities
     ▫️granular access controls for performance evaluations
     ▫️improved analytics and monitoring for AI agents
     ▫️integrates with Bedrock Knowledge Bases
     ▫️automatically select relevant contacts for performance evaluation
     ▫️launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
     ▫️native testing and simulation capabilities | Preview
     ▫️simplifies linking related contacts to cases using flows
     ▫️streams messages for AI-powered interactions
     ▫️third-party speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI models for end-customer self-service
     ▫️WhatsApp channel for Outbound Campaigns
▪️ Connect Chat agent-initiated workflows
▪️ Connect Chat in-flight data redaction and message processing

▪️ Connect Customer Profiles new segmentation capabilities | Beta

▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns multi-step, multi-channel customer engagement journey builder

▪️ Database Savings Plans with up to 35% savings
▪️ EC2
     ▫️C8a Instances New Compute-Optimized
     ▫️C8ine instances | Preview
     ▫️General purpose M8azn instances | Preview
     ▫️M4 Max Mac instances | Preview
     ▫️M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors | Preview
     ▫️Memory optimized X8i instances | Preview
     ▫️new memory optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances
     ▫️new memory-optimized X8aedz Instances
     ▫️P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
     ▫️Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost generative AI training
▪️ EKS Capabilities
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023
     ▫️Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ EMR Apache Spark upgrade agent
▪️ EMR Serverless eliminates local storage provisioning for Spark workloads
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Amazon S3 access
▪️ Glue Apache Iceberg based materialized views
▪️ GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection now supports EC2 and ECS
▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot generate IAM policies from code
▪️ Lambda durable functions for multi-step applications and AI workflows
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances run functions on your EC2 instances
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️agent mode and AI-enhanced search to accelerate solution discovery
     ▫️automated integration for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM
     ▫️express private offers for fast personalized pricing
     ▫️multi-product solutions
     ▫️variable payments for professional services
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️adds GPU-accelerated and auto-optimized vector indexes
     ▫️automatic semantic enrichment
▪️ Partnership
     ▫️AI Competency with new Agentic AI categories
     ▫️Partner Central is now available in the AWS Management Console
▪️ Partnership Resilience Software Competency
▪️ RDS for Oracle and SQL Server up to 256 TiB storage with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS for SQL Server
     ▫️now supports Developer Edition
     ▫️optimize CPU with new generation instances for up to 55% lower price
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver secure anycast DNS resolution | Preview
▪️ S3 Batch Operations performance improvements
▪️ S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB
▪️ S3 Storage Lens performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
▪️ S3 Tables
     ▫️automatic replication of Apache Iceberg tables
     ▫️Intelligent-Tiering storage class
▪️ S3 Vectors 40 times the scale of preview
▪️ SageMaker AI
     ▫️New serverless model customization capability
     ▫️serverless MLflow capability for faster AI development
▪️ SageMaker Catalog
     ▫️automatic data classification using AI agents
     ▫️exports asset metadata as queryable dataset
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
     ▫️checkpointless training
     ▫️elastic training
▪️ SageMaker self-service migration of Notebook instances
▪️ Security Hub near real-time risk analytics
▪️ SES adds VPC support for API endpoints
▪️ Strands Agents TypeScript support | Preview
▪️ Transform
     ▫️AI agent for full-stack Windows modernization
     ▫️expands .NET transformation capabilities and enhances DX
     ▫️mainframe delivers new testing automation capabilities
     ▫️mainframe now supports application reimagining
     ▫️new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations