Amazon Web Services VP Francessca Vasquez explains how companies are deploying AI, from pilot to production across industries.

AWS news in 2025 focuses on AI innovation, Nvidia partnership, agentic AI, partner programs, new chips, billions in data center investments, cloud market share and Bedrock.

While the layoffs were confirmed by Amazon, no details were provided. News outlets report that 'at least hundreds of jobs' were cut.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new suite of capabilities and tools designed to support customers in developing AI agents on top of AWS infrastructure. At the core of this launch is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a service that enables customers to deploy and manage advanced AI agents securely and at scale.

Microsoft, the second largest cloud provider, has followed Amazon's lead and made strides in chip development. In 2023, the company designed its own systems called Sidekicks to cool the Maia AI chips it developed.

For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.

Amazon announced the new AI Agents and Tools category in the AWS Marketplace, which includes the Brave Search API.

Amazon confirmed layoffs in its cloud computing unit, AWS, and employees are trying to determine which teams were affected.