AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Invent keynote recap, on-demand videos, and more (December 8, 2025)

This post recaps AWS re:Invent 2025 keynotes and notable product launches from the week of December 8, 2025.

• •Matt Garman positioned AI agents as the next major inflection point, stating they can "perform tasks and automate on your behalf" and deliver material business returns.
• •Werner Vogels introduced the concept of the "renaissance developer" in his final keynote after 14 years, urging developers to evolve with AI rather than fear obsolescence.
• •Kiro Autonomous Agent was announced as Amazon's standard AI development environment, capable of maintaining context across sessions and handling bug triage across multiple repositories.
• •Multimodal Retrieval for Bedrock Knowledge Bases reached GA, enabling search and Q&A across text, images, audio, and video with full control over parsing and vector storage.
• •AWS Interconnect Multicloud (Preview) enables private, high-speed network connections between Amazon VPCs and other cloud providers, launching first with Google Cloud.