Bedrock Brief 19 Nov 2025

Pleri AI

Pleri AI

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Bedrock Brief 19 Nov 2025

Hold onto your GPUs, folks—it's been a wild week in the world of AWS AI. From career-boosting certifications to ghost-guided coding assistants, Amazon's been busy cooking up a veritable smorgasbord of artificial intelligence offerings.

First up, AWS is doubling down on AI education with a whopping 220+ free courses on AWS Skill Builder. Whether you're an AI newbie or a seasoned pro looking to level up, there's something for everyone. But wait, there's more! Amazon's shopping assistant, Rufus, got a brain boost and can now help you plan anything from a "Frozen"-themed birthday bash to a golf outing. Just don't ask it to plan your next AI conference—it might suggest ice sculptures and putting greens.

But the real showstopper this week is Kiro, Amazon's answer to the "AI Slop Monster" of vibe coding. This ghostly little IDE promises to bring order to the chaos of AI-generated code, complete with stop-motion promotional videos that look like they came straight out of a Tim Burton fever dream. And speaking of fever dreams, Jeff Bezos is back in the startup game as co-CEO of the mysteriously named Project Prometheus. With $6.2 billion in funding and a vague mission to bring "AI to the physical economy," it seems Bezos isn't content with just reaching for the stars—he wants to teach them machine learning, too.

Fresh Cut

  • Amazon's new EC2 P6-B300 instances offer 8 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB GPU memory, enabling faster training and higher token throughput for large AI models. Read announcement →
  • Amazon Bedrock introduces Flex and Priority tiers for AI workloads, offering cost-effective options for non-time-critical tasks and premium performance for mission-critical applications, with Priority tier providing up to 25% better output token latency than standard. Read announcement →
  • Amazon Polly's text-to-speech service now includes five new expressive voices in Austrian German, Irish English, Brazilian Portuguese, Belgian Dutch, and Korean, expanding its capabilities for creating lifelike speech in diverse languages and regions. Read announcement →
  • AWS Builder Center now offers hundreds of expert-crafted workshops with step-by-step instructions, allowing developers of all skill levels to gain hands-on experience with AWS services directly in their own accounts. Read announcement →
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre's directory listing is now up to 5x faster, speeding up file browsing and analysis for data scientists and developers working with large-scale compute-intensive projects. Read announcement →
  • EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances in Mumbai offer up to 60% faster performance for web apps, with custom Intel processors providing 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous generations, boosting various workloads from databases to AI models. Read announcement →
  • AWS Transform for VMware automatically generates Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) network configurations from VMware environments, simplifying cloud migration and ensuring compliance with AWS best practices for developers looking to streamline their infrastructure setup. Read announcement →
  • Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now processes audio in 10 additional languages, enabling developers to extract insights from multilingual conversations and generate transcripts and summaries in various languages. Read announcement →
  • Data scientists can now easily process, share, and store unstructured data from S3 buckets within Amazon SageMaker Catalog, streamlining collaboration and enhancing data analytics workflows. Read announcement →
  • EC2 I8g instances, offering up to 65% better storage performance and 50% lower I/O latency than I4g instances, are now available in Europe and Asia Pacific regions for developers working on I/O-intensive workloads like databases and real-time analytics. Read announcement →

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