GDIT has been named AWS Global Defense Consulting Partner of the Year for its work delivering tactical edge AI solutions with AWS. Its DOGMA platform integrates AI, cloud, and satellite connectivity to accelerate defense decision-making, reducing analysis times from 30 minutes to just seconds during recent military exercises.

Amazon is ramping up AI and cloud investments as analysts project AWS revenue growth of up to 30% in 2026. With $125 billion allocated to AWS expansion, new Trainium3 processors, and widespread automation across fulfillment centers, AWS-led AI demand is seen as a key driver of Amazon’s next growth cycle.

BMO Capital raised its Amazon price target to $304, citing accelerating AI momentum within AWS. Key drivers include increased enterprise cloud commitments, growing use of AI agents, and strong long-term investment plans, including an additional $35 billion investment in India by 2030 to support AI-led growth, digitization, and job creation.

Kiwa Digital has released new Te Ao Māori and Tongan experiences on CultureQ, its AWS-powered platform for Indigenous language and cultural preservation. Built on Amazon Bedrock, CultureQ uses conversational AI to transform community-approved cultural archives into interactive learning tools, supporting language revitalisation, cultural governance, and improved health literacy across Aotearoa and the Pacific.

AWS has introduced its Graviton5 processor and preview M9g EC2 instances, offering up to 25% higher performance, a 5× larger L3 cache, and up to 192 CPU cores. The release also debuts the Nitro Isolation Engine, using formal verification to deliver mathematically proven workload isolation and next-generation cloud security.

At SVG Summit 2025, AWS’s Jason Dvorkin shared how AWS is working with the NBA and PGA Tour to build smarter fan and production experiences. NBA Play Finder helps uncover key plays and patterns, while agentic AI supports faster, scalable content creation for the PGA Tour. The partnerships show how AWS is applying AI to sports storytelling and live production workflows.

AWS has launched Amazon Bedrock in Bahrain in partnership with the Information & eGovernment Authority, bringing secure access to generative AI models inside the government AWS cloud. The rollout supports Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030 and National AI Policy, helping public and private entities develop AI solutions—including high-accuracy Arabic experiences—while meeting strong data protection and privacy standards.

Amazon has created a new AI-focused organization and appointed longtime AWS leader Peter DeSantis to run it. The group will unify Amazon’s Nova model roadmap and frontier model work with custom silicon (including Trainium and Graviton) and quantum computing—helping Amazon optimize AI performance across models, chips, and cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers.

AWS is already powering the Genesis Mission, a national initiative to accelerate American scientific discovery using AI and high-performance computing. Through its collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory and major investments in secure government cloud and AI infrastructure, AWS is helping researchers compress years of discovery into months—enabling breakthroughs in nuclear energy, national security, and advanced science.

AWS now offers regional availability for NAT Gateway, enabling a single managed gateway to automatically span multiple availability zones in a VPC. This update removes the need for zonal NAT gateways, public subnets, and complex route management—simplifying high-availability networking while maintaining built-in scaling and resiliency across AZs.