The AWS Heroes program introduces new AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025, recognizing AWS experts who share knowledge in the developer community.
Recent AWS launches include advanced capabilities for Amazon Q Developer, dynamic request routing support for REST APIs in Amazon API Gateway, managed query results in Amazon Athena, and a new monitoring dashboard in the AWS Network Firewall console.
AWS also announced a price reduction of up to 45% for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances, the availability of public AWS API models on GitHub, the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, and simplified AMI cleanup workflow on Amazon EC2.
Upcoming AWS events include re:Inforce, AWS Summits in multiple cities, AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, and AWS Community Days in various locations to engage the cloud computing community.