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happy new year! We are seeing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology to make a positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels presents five future technology predictions for 2025 and beyond.
- Tomorrow’s workforce is mission-driven.
- A new era of energy efficiency drives innovation
- Technology sets the bar for truth discovery
- Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness.
- Intent-driven consumer technology takes hold
Download Werner Vogels’ Technology Forecasts to 2025 and Beyond eBook or read Werner’s All Things Distributed blog to learn more about how these technology trends are shaping our world and paving the way for a more innovative, efficient, and purposeful future. Find out.
AWS re:Invent 2025 Videos and re:Caps
If you’d like to check out re:Invent announcements or learn more about the latest AWS innovations, here are a few options:
Released in the last few weeks
Since the last week we reviewed on December 16, 2024, we’d like to highlight some of the releases from last week as well as towards the end of the year.
Availability of Llama 3.3 70B on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock – Llama 3.3 70B on Meta represents a significant advancement in model efficiency and performance optimization. Llama 3.3 70B is a text-only command coordination model that provides improved performance over Llama 3.1 70B and Llama 3.2 90B when used in text-only applications. You can now use this model in both Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock.
Availability of Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large on Amazon Bedrock – Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large by Stability AI is the most powerful model in the Stable Diffusion family with 8.1 billion parameters trained on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. You can now generate high-quality images from text descriptions using Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large on Amazon Bedrock.
New Amazon Kinesis Source Connector for Apache Flink – The Apache Flink community has released version 5.0.0 of the AWS Service Connector, an AWS open source contribution. This release introduces Kinesis Streams Source, a new connector for reading data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, replacing the previous Kinesis Consumer.
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports AWS Global Accelerator – Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now integrates with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) to improve WorkSpaces connection performance by optimizing streaming traffic across the AWS global network and edge locations. This feature is especially useful for customers whose end users connect to their WorkSpaces over long distances. You can enable the AGA feature at the WorkSpaces directory level or for individual WorkSpaces running the Amazon DCV protocol.
New Resource Insights in AWS Resource Explorer – The improved Resource Explorer experience centralizes relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services for supported resource types. New features allow you to work with resources directly from the Resource Explorer console, including managing tags, adding resources to your application, and using Amazon Q to get more information about your resources.
General Availability of Custom Billing Views in AWS Billing and Cost Management – ​​Custom billing views allow you to use a single view in AWS Cost Explorer to provide application and business unit owners with the ability to access data from multiple AWS accounts without giving them access to AWS Management. We can provide access to cost management data. account. You can create filtered views of your cost management data based on cost allocation tags or specific AWS accounts.
For a complete list of AWS announcements, keep checking our What’s New on AWS page.
Upcoming AWS Events
Check the calendar and register for the next AWS event.
AWS at CES 2025 (January 7-10) – AWS will showcase its latest cloud services and solutions purpose-built for the automotive, mobility, transportation, and manufacturing industries. Learn about the latest cloud capabilities in generative AI, software-defined vehicles, product engineering, sustainability, new digital customer experiences, connected mobility, autonomous driving, and more at the Amazon Experience Area.
AWS at NRF 2025 (January 12-14) – Join AWS at the retailer’s largest show to see generative AI and cutting-edge technologies in action. Hear innovative big idea sessions, curated TechTalk, and experience the latest retail trends, technology, and more.
Amazon QuickSight Learning Series – Start 2025 by strengthening your data skills. Join our January online learning series to learn about the cutting-edge features of Amazon QuickSight unveiled at re:Invent 2024.
Find all upcoming in-person and virtual events.
That’s it for this week. Check back next Monday for another weekly update!
–Prasad
This post is part of the Weekly Roundup series. Check out exciting news and announcements from AWS quickly every week!
