In this week’s real-time analytics news: The annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference yielded numerous announcements from AWS and its partners.
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The annual Amazon Web Services AWS re:Invent conference yielded numerous announcements from AWS and its partners. Some of the major AWS announcements include:
AWS announced a comprehensive expansion of its Nova portfolio with four new models, a pioneering “open training” service that empowers organizations to build their custom model variants with Nova, and a service for creating highly reliable AI agents. Elements of the announcement include:
- Nova 2 Lite, which is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text.
- Nova 2 Pro, which is Amazon’s most intelligent reasoning model that can process text, images, video, and speech to generate text.
- Nova 2 Sonic, which is Amazon’s speech-to-speech model that unifies text and speech understanding and generation for real-time, human-like conversational AI.
- Nova 2 Omni, which is a unified multimodal reasoning and generation model that can process text, images, video, and speech inputs while generating both text and images—an industry first.
- Nova Forge, which empowers organizations to build their own optimized variants of Nova—or “Novellas”—by blending their proprietary data with Nova’s frontier capabilities.
- Nova Act (now available as a service on AWS), which is used for building and deploying highly reliable AI agents that can take actions in web browsers. Powered by a custom Nova 2 Lite model, Nova Act provides the fastest and easiest path to build and manage fleets of agents that automate browser-based tasks.
The company also announced:
The general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers. Powered by the new Trainium3 chip built on 3nm technology, Trn3 UltraServers enable organizations of all sizes to train larger AI models faster and serve more users at lower cost.
The introduction of Graviton5 processors, which the company says is its most advanced custom chip to date for a broad set of cloud workloads. Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances enable users to process information more efficiently with the highest CPU core density available in Amazon EC2—192 cores in a single package.
The general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors. S3 Vectors is a cloud object storage with native support to store and query vector data. Customers can use it to help them reduce the total cost of storing and querying vectors compared to specialized vector database solutions.
New Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI capabilities that make advanced model customization accessible to developers at any organization. Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT) in Amazon Bedrock and serverless model customization in Amazon SageMaker AI with reinforcement learning simplify the process of creating efficient AI that’s fast, cost-effective, and more accurate compared to base models.
An expansion of Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one place, and with reduced data duplication and costs.
Partner announcements
NVIDIA and AWS announced integrations to accelerate global AI innovation and deliver advanced infrastructure to customers worldwide. The announcements this week include:
- AWS is adopting NVLink Fusion to power Trainium4 platforms, improving large-scale model training and inference.
- The launch of AWS AI Factories, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, to provide secure, sovereign AI infrastructure solutions for enterprises and government organizations.
- Nemotron models are now available on the Amazon Bedrock serverless platform, allowing developers to build specialized agentic AI applications with scalable infrastructure.
- NVIDIA and AWS are expanding software integrations, including Amazon OpenSearch and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit working with AWS agent frameworks to optimize and scale production AI agents.
Algolia announced an integration between its search and discovery platform and Amazon Bedrock, enabling teams of any size to build, scale, and operate generative and agentic AI applications with unprecedented simplicity, security, and speed. For Algolia AI Search customers, the integration with Amazon Bedrock transforms search into the foundation for advanced generative AI experiences, delivering powerful capabilities without the need for additional vendors, complex infrastructure, or lengthy development cycles.
Cohesity announced that it is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which is expected to launch by the end of 2025. The effort will provide a dedicated European cloud environment designed to enable customers to meet stringent data residency, operational independence, and sovereignty mandates. As a launch partner, Cohesity will deliver data protection and security solutions to customers using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Deepgram announced native integration with Amazon SageMaker AI, delivering streaming, real-time speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and the Voice Agent API as Amazon SageMaker AI real-time endpoints, no custom pipelines or orchestration required. The companyannounced integration of its enterprise-grade speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) models with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex, enabling real-time transcription, low-latency voice bots, and analytics within customers’ existing AWS environments.
Elastic announced a new integration for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that brings observability for AI agents and applications directly into the Elasticsearch platform. The integration allows site reliability engineers (SREs) and developers to monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot agents running on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Informatica from Salesforce unveiled new advancements that deepen the integration between Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS). These updates give customers a stronger foundation to build enterprise-grade AI agents powered by trusted, high-quality, and well-governed data.
Neo4j announced the release of the Neo4j Connector for AWS Glue, available as a custom connector for use with AWS Glue. This connector simplifies graph creation from tabular data. Whether a user is running Neo4j AuraDB on AWS or managing self-hosted Neo4j instances on Amazon EC2, they can now use the power of serverless AWS Glue to transform and load data from Amazon services like S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, and Kinesis Data Streams, as well as popular data stores like Apache Kafka, Snowflake, and MySQL, directly into Neo4j.
New Relic announced a suite of integrations with AWS that deliver New Relic’s AI capabilities and observability insights directly to AWS AI services. Additionally, New Relic deepened its AWS collaboration by integrating its MCP Server with AWS DevOps Agent and Amazon Quick Suite to reduce manual toil and speed up incident resolution.
Precisely announced an expansion of its collaboration with AWS through new enhancements to Precisely Connect that enable real-time, direct data replication from mainframes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The new capability eliminates the need for intermediaries, simplifying modernization and empowering enterprises to unlock the full value of their data for analytics and AI initiatives on AWS.
Qlik announced it will be a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which will launch by the end of 2025. Qlik’s data and analytics solutions will be available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, giving European organizations governed analytics and AI with EU data residency and AWS-grade security, availability, and performance. This helps customers meet stringent EU requirements for operational autonomy and data residency.
Salesforce announced Agentforce 360 for AWS. The solution will run Salesforce’s AI agent platform entirely on AWS infrastructure while leveraging Amazon Bedrock for the reasoning engine and prompt builder capabilities. The solution will be available exclusively in AWS Marketplace in early 2026.
SIOS Technology announced that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resilience Software Competency in the Design category. This specialization recognizes SIOS as an AWS Partner that provides validated solutions to help customers improve their critical systems availability and resilience posture using AWS Resilience Services.
Solace announced general availability (GA) of Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise, an open agentic AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and operate intelligent and well-governed AI-powered applications that interact in real-time with enterprise applications and data. Solace Agent Mesh was built from the ground up as an open, flexible platform designed to make it easy for enterprises to experiment with single or multi-agent systems to deliver on their agentic AI objectives.
SUSE announced SUSE Rancher for AWS, which is an AI-ready container management platform Powered by AWS. The solution unifies management, security, and observability, enabling developers to scale cloud native workloads on Amazon EKS. In particular, SUSE Rancher for AWS is integrated with AWS technologies, including Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock, enabling customers to leverage the full power of SUSE’s AI-ready, resilient-by-design platforms to simplify management of their Amazon EKS estates.
Additional partner announcements
Caylent announced that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI Specialization, a new category launched within the AWS AI Competency.
Databahn announced that its data pipeline management platform is now available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
Datadog announced a new strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with AWS and showcased multiple product launches across AI, observability, and security to help organizations running on AWS to monitor, optimize, and secure their cloud environments.
Mission, a CDW company, announced that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI Specialization, a new category launched within the AWS AI Competency.
NetApp announced a new capability that directly connects Amazon S3 Access Points to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, making it easier for enterprises to use their ONTAP data with AWS’s portfolio of AI, ML, and analytics services.
Selector is now available onAWS Marketplace, enabling users to easily deploy Selector’s AI-driven observability platform across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Real-time analytics news in brief
Airbyte announced significant updates that provide users with faster data transfers, as well as predictable pricing, enabling accurate and secure data for AI and analytics. Included are updates to its Snowflake destination connector, Microsoft SQL Server connector, and syncs from MySQL to S3. For small- and medium-sized enterprises, the new Airbyte Plus plan provides fixed annual pricing that comes with full support, enabling customers to plan budgets more effectively with the backing of Airbyte service level agreements.
Aquant announced the launch of its Agent Library, a growing catalog of ready-to-use AI agents built on Aquant’s Agentic AI Platform. The Agent Library, consisting of more than 25 pre-built and customizable agents, enables functions across the business (from Service to Sales to Marketing to Product & Engineering) to tap into the data and expertise historically buried inside service operations.
Qlik announced the private preview of its new agentic experience in Qlik Cloud. The offering is delivered through Qlik Answers as the unified conversational interface, bringing together structured data analytics, unstructured documents, and the reasoning power of large language models in a single, governed experience.
In other Qlik news, the company announced new capabilities in Qlik Open Lakehouse that bring streaming ingestion and real-time transformations to its managed, Apache Iceberg–based lakehouse. With these additions, teams can ingest high-volume events from Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) into governed Iceberg tables and apply transformations as the data lands.
Pinecone announced that Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN) are now available in public preview. The DRNs are purpose-built for these demanding workloads, giving users reserved capacity for queries with predictable performance and cost. The combination of DRN and On-Demand services enables Pinecone to support a wide range of use cases (RAG to search to recommendation systems and more) with varying requirements in production with enterprise-grade performance.
Partnerships, collaborations, and more
Akamai announced that it has acquired Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly company. As artificial intelligence (AI) inference shifts to the edge, combining Fermyon’s cloud-native WebAssembly (Wasm) function-as-a-service (FaaS) with Akamai’s globally distributed platform enables enterprises to build edge-native applications that offer improved performance and lower costs compared to traditional cloud-native apps.
AtScale announced its integration with the Databricks MCP Marketplace. This partnership enables organizations to build intelligent AI agents using Databricks Agent Bricks backed by governed semantic models that ensure accurate, trusted business decisions at enterprise scale. The integration leverages Databricks’ Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that allows agents to securely access external services.
Mistral AI announced the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA platforms. By combining NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems and Mistral AI’s MoE architecture, enterprises can efficiently deploy and scale massive AI models, benefiting from advanced parallelism and hardware optimizations. This combination makes the announcement a step toward the era of — what Mistral AI calls ‘distributed intelligence,’ bridging the gap between research breakthroughs and real-world applications.
Snowflake and Anthropic announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership. The multi-year, $200 million agreement will make Anthropic’s Claude models available in the Snowflake platform to more than 12,600 global customers across all three major clouds, and also establishes a joint global go-to-market (GTM) initiative focused on deploying AI agents across the world’s largest enterprises. Claude will also serve as a key model powering Snowflake’s enterprise intelligence agent, Snowflake Intelligence.
Vultr announced a major milestone in its long-standing strategic collaboration with AMD to advance and scale AI workloads worldwide. Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio, cloud data center location. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance per dollar for AI training and inference.
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