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.

Data graph platform Apollo GraphQL co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Matt DeBergalis is moving up to CEO, succeeding co-founder and CEO Geoff Schmidt, who will remain at Apollo in a new role focused on advancing the company’s technology and the GraphQL ecosystem.

AWS beleives AI agents will change how enterprises work and with its new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, it hopes to make it easier to build and deploy agents in one go.

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.

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

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.

AgentCore-powered agents and other AI applications can keep their data in Amazon S3 Vectors, a new storage offering that also debuted at AWS Summit today. It’s optimized to store vectors, the mathematical structures in which neural networks encode their data. AWS says that the offering costs 90% less than alternative services.

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