Breaking news from AWS re:Invent, plus tech predictions for 2026 and beyond from Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
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Written by Amazon VP & CTO Werner Vogels
I'm writing live from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, where we're unveiling AI capabilities that will transform how organizations innovate—from autonomous agents that work as extensions of your teams to breakthroughs in AI model building and training.
Technology influences everything—our relationships, how we work, what we learn. But we're on the verge of something fundamentally different: a future that values autonomy, empathy, and expertise, where interdisciplinary cooperation drives discovery at a relentless pace. In the coming year, we will transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around.
The predictions I share below for 2026 and beyond are grounded in the extraordinary progress we've witnessed this past year—like Kiro, our new agentic IDE that helps developers move from prototype to production faster, and more.
Read on to explore the groundbreaking announcements from re:Invent and my tech predictions for 2026 and beyond.
AWS unveils frontier agents, a new class of AI agents that work as an extension of your software development team
AWS announced three new frontier agents that represent a new class of AI agents that are autonomous, scalable, and work for hours or days without constant intervention. Kiro autonomous agent is your virtual developer that maintains context and learns over time while working independently, so you can focus on your biggest priorities. AWS Security Agent is your virtual security engineer that helps build secure applications by being a security consultant for app design, code reviews, and penetration testing. AWS DevOps Agent is your virtual operations team member that helps resolve and proactively prevent incidents, while continuously improving your applications' reliability and performance.
These frontier agents don't just make teams faster—they fundamentally redefine what's possible when AI works as an extension of your team, delivering outcomes autonomously across the software development lifecycle. Clariant, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, SmugMug, Western Governors University, and Presidio are among the customers already using one or more of these new agents to dramatically accelerate the software development lifecycle.
Dr. Werner Vogels's tech predictions for 2026 and beyond
1. Companionship is redefined for those who need it most
Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions, affecting one in six people worldwide and designated as a public health crisis by the World Health Organization. Social isolation increases death risk by 32%, comparable to smoking, while loneliness increases dementia risk by 31%.
As MIT researcher Kate Darling discovered, we're biologically hardwired to project intent and life onto autonomous movement, which is why people tend to treat robots more like animals than devices. At Amazon, our Astro team has documented people building genuine relationships with companion robots.
Rather than replacing human caregivers, these robots create a collaborative model where technology and people work together to combat the loneliness epidemic.
2. The dawn of the renaissance developer
As generative AI reshapes how we build software, a familiar trope has reemerged—that developers will become obsolete. But this is not the end of the developer; it's the dawn of the renaissance developer...
Trainium3 UltraServers now available: Enabling customers to train and deploy AI models faster at lower cost
AWS just announced at re:Invent the general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers, powered by the new Trainium3 chip built on 3nm technology. These UltraServers deliver up to 4.4x more compute performance, 4x greater energy efficiency, and almost 4x more memory bandwidth than Trainium2 UltraServers, enabling organizations of all sizes to train larger AI models faster and serve more users at lower cost.
Trn3 UltraServers scale up to 144 Trainium3 chips, delivering up to 362 FP8 PFLOPs with 4x lower latency to train larger models faster and serve inference at scale. Customers including Anthropic, Karakuri, Metagenomi, NetoAI, Ricoh, and Splash Music are reducing training and inference costs by up to 50% with Trainium, while Decart is achieving 4x faster inference for real-time generative video at half the cost of GPUs, and Amazon Bedrock is already serving production workloads on Trainium3.
Amazon introduces new frontier Nova models, a pioneering Nova Forge service for organizations to build their own models, and Nova Act for building agents
Amazon 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.
Nova 2 models deliver industry-leading price-performance across reasoning, multimodal processing, conversational AI, code generation, and agentic tasks. Nova Forge enables companies to build their own optimized variants of Nova by infusing their proprietary data early in the training process through Forge’s unique "open training" approach. Nova Act achieves breakthrough 90% reliability for browser-based UI automation workflows built by early customers.
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Amazing innovation👍🏻
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Interesting developments.
Love how AWS is pushing autonomy and efficiency