December 5th, 2025 by Adam Sandman
What a momentous and epic week at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2025. Along with my colleagues Simon Bor, Jessica Moore and Mike Morrey, we have heard first-hand about the new and upcoming product and partnership announcements in the keynotes, made new connections with partners and customers, reconnected with colleagues, friends, and partners, and had those amazing "hallway" conversations with someone unexpected that sparks a new innovation, and changes the course of history in an instant.
Keynotes and Product Announcements
On the product side, there was a big focus on Agentic AI naturally:
✨ Google’s open weight Gemma model coming to AmazonBedrock
✨ Nova Embeddings now available
✨ Amazon Nova 2 is out! Including a whole new model - Nova 2 Omni is a reasoning model that supports multi-modal reasoning (multi modes in) and text and images out.
✨ Nova Forge is a new service to create custom models, not with fine tuning but during custom pre-training.
✨ AgentCore Evaluations to test an agent to make sure it maintains its quality with simple pre-baked types of evaluation.
✨ Kiro autonomous agent is out, which can work autonomously for long sessions in the background and across repos, learning from how we work by building its own memory. it’s goal is to write code.
✨ A new DevOps agent for incident triage, and resolution
Executive Briefings and Roundtables
We attended an ISV AgenticAI executive briefing and panel discussion that outlined the future of work in the age of AI as well as providing a roadmap for software companies that are adding AI products into their platform. Based on the presentation, we are in between the "Innovate" and "AI Native" stages:
- Our new Inflectra.ai service delivers AI-powered innovation to our exiting products SpiraPlan - Software Development Lifecycle and Rapise - Agentic Test Automation
- Whereas our in-development InflectraAssure™ AgenticAI testing solution will be 100% native-AI first. This will allow customers to test and verify agents at scale for the first time.
AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC)
During many of the sessions I attended, a big topic is the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) where spec-based development tools such as Kiro combined with enabling technologies such as MCP come together to deliver and AI-first end-to-end DevOps lifecycle. Thanks to an excellent presentation by Raja SP and a serendipitous hallway chat with my good friend Kawshik S, I am convinced more than ever that the future of software delivery and devops will be AI-native. We will be working on more whitepapers and videos on this topic.
Speaking of AgenticAI, it was fantastic to visit the re:Invent EXPO and see our customer success story for Spira and Rapise displayed live in the AWS Marketplace expo under "AI and Agentic AI Partners". It was amazing validation of the incredible work our teams have done helping customers realize real business value using Inflectra.ai.
Making Connections
Finally, conferences are as much about making connections with people and organizations. It was great to be able spend some time with Leslie Holland from our new partner Myridius.
In addition to meeting up with Leslie, it was wonderful to reconnect with many other folks such as Kathie Kinde Clark from Rhythmic Technologies, Bill L. Brown, Danielle Brommer Seth Clark from Mission, a CDW Company, Carly Castiner, and finally Shahram Anver a fellow founder and entrepreneur.
Keep building and Keep dreaming.... see you at AWS re:Invent 2026!
Adam
