August 28, 2025
Top 25 AWS Services in 2025
1. DeepSeek-R1 (AI Foundation Models on Bedrock)
AWS introduced DeepSeek‑R1, a family of foundation models now fully managed and available via Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI. These models support advanced AI workloads with optimized performance.  
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2. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Announced at AWS Summit New York 2025, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides a comprehensive agentic-AI toolkit. With components like Gateway, Memory, and Browser Tool, AgentCore enables secure, scalable deployment of intelligent AI agents. 
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3. AI Agents & Tools in AWS Marketplace
AWS expanded its generative AI ecosystem by adding a dedicated Agents and Tools category to AWS Marketplace. Customers can now discover, buy, and deploy AI agents and tools from top vendors like Anthropic, IBM, and more. 
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4. Amazon S3 Vectors
Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud storage service with native vector support tailored for AI workloads. Integrated with Bedrock Knowledge Bases and OpenSearch, it offers up to 90% cost savings on storage and querying operations.  
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5. OpenAI GPT Models on AWS
For the first time, AWS made OpenAI’s open-weight GPT models available via Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI. Models like gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are optimized for both cost-efficiency and performance, offering AWS customers more flexibility in generative AI. 
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6. New EC2 Instances: C8gn & G6f
AWS expanded EC2 with two key instance types in 2025:
• C8gn: Compute-optimized, powered by Graviton4, offering up to 30% better performance and 600 Gbps network bandwidth.
• G6f: Fractional-GPU instances allowing scaled use of NVIDIA L4 GPUs—fractional allocations of 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2 GPU.
AWS introduced DeepSeek‑R1, a family of foundation models now fully managed and available via Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI. These models support advanced AI workloads with optimized performance.  
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2. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Announced at AWS Summit New York 2025, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides a comprehensive agentic-AI toolkit. With components like Gateway, Memory, and Browser Tool, AgentCore enables secure, scalable deployment of intelligent AI agents. 
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3. AI Agents & Tools in AWS Marketplace
AWS expanded its generative AI ecosystem by adding a dedicated Agents and Tools category to AWS Marketplace. Customers can now discover, buy, and deploy AI agents and tools from top vendors like Anthropic, IBM, and more. 
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4. Amazon S3 Vectors
Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud storage service with native vector support tailored for AI workloads. Integrated with Bedrock Knowledge Bases and OpenSearch, it offers up to 90% cost savings on storage and querying operations.  
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5. OpenAI GPT Models on AWS
For the first time, AWS made OpenAI’s open-weight GPT models available via Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI. Models like gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are optimized for both cost-efficiency and performance, offering AWS customers more flexibility in generative AI. 
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6. New EC2 Instances: C8gn & G6f
AWS expanded EC2 with two key instance types in 2025:
• C8gn: Compute-optimized, powered by Graviton4, offering up to 30% better performance and 600 Gbps network bandwidth.
• G6f: Fractional-GPU instances allowing scaled use of NVIDIA L4 GPUs—fractional allocations of 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2 GPU.