AWS re:Invent 2025: AI Agents take over while core compute gets reinvented
Blog post from New Relic
AWS re:Invent 2025 highlighted the future of cloud computing through agentic workflows and AI-driven operations, emphasizing the need for engineers to stay updated with AI advancements to remain relevant. A significant announcement was the AWS DevOps Agent, designed to enhance operational excellence by acting as an autonomous, always-on-call engineer integrated with New Relic to improve incident response times. Key innovations include the Graviton5 Arm CPU, Trainium3 UltraServers, and S3 Vectors, which offer improved performance and cost efficiency for various cloud workloads. AWS also introduced the Nova 2 Model Family with advanced AI capabilities and IAM Policy Autopilot for security best practices. New features like AWS Lambda Managed Instances and Durable Functions offer new ways to optimize serverless applications, while Amazon EKS Capabilities streamline Kubernetes development. Additionally, the event showcased intelligent observability advancements with New Relic, focusing on AI agents that can autonomously address system issues, promising a future of increased efficiency and productivity in cloud operations.