AWS re:Invent 2025 — Day 0: Wait there's more?
Because AWS has impeccable timing - A last-minute addendum capturing the updates AWS dropped the moment I pressed commit.
Because AWS has impeccable timing
Just as I pressed commit AWS decided now was the perfect moment to drop a handful of announcements that sit somewhere between deeply practical and mildly confusing. Not keynote-level hype. But definitely builder-grade useful.
IAM Policy Autopilot
AWS has released a way to generate draft IAM policies based on what your application actually does. It looks at the AWS API calls your code makes and builds a permission set to match. Think of it as AWS acknowledging that most policy JSON starts with good intentions and ends with s3:*, dynamodb:* and a prayer.
Route 53 Global Resolver (Preview)
A global DNS resolver for both public and private hosted zones using Anycast IP addresses. Works from branch offices, data centres, VPCs and remote endpoints over Do53, DoH or DoT. Supports DNS filtering, logging and validation from a single place. In short DNS just got centralised, secured and a little more modern.
Lambda Managed Instances
AWS is now letting you run Lambda on EC2 capacity that you do not manage. Still looks and feels like Lambda, just with control over instance types, potential GPU support and the ability to use Reserved Instances or Savings Plans.
Why would I want to host a serverless function on a server. Who asked for this?
I suppose there is a use case for it
*Still thinking * … *Five minutes later *
This might be their opening play for GPU-backed Lambda, I will be watching!
Partner Central in the Console
Partner Central has officially moved into the AWS Management Console. No separate portal. No extra login. Now it lives right next to EC2 and IAM. Part of me likes it. The other part is not sure if business and pleasure should mix.
But now that Partner Central is here
Should Marketplace also come home
Is the Console eventually going to become the one place to run the technical and commercial sides of AWS offerings
I will be thinking about this one as well.
URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-partner-central-now-available-in-aws-management-console/
AWS Clean Rooms Synthetic Dataset Generation
You can now create privacy-preserving synthetic datasets for machine learning training directly inside AWS Clean Rooms. These are not anonymised versions of your data. They are statistically generated lookalike datasets that behave like the real thing without exposing anything sensitive.
It also now connects to IAM Policy Autopilot
So AWS has officially fused privacy, data sharing, security and AI-driven policy generation into one storyline
AWS re:Invent Event Roundup
AWS has also launched a daily event roundup page. For those chasing the official version in real time, here it is.
URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2025/
Yes there was also an EKS update, ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Someone somewhere is thrilled … That someone is not me, although I did see someone dressed as a DaemonSet. That is dedication!
So thank you AWS
For releasing all of this
Exactly when I thought I was finished
And that is exactly how re:Invent should feel