Next week, don’t miss AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, 2025, for the latest AWS news, expert insights, and global cloud community connections! Our News Blog team is finalizing posts to introduce the most exciting launches from our service teams. If you’re joining us in person in Las Vegas, review the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides before arriving. Can’t attend in person? Watch our Keynotes and Innovation Talks via livestream.

Kiro is now generally available

Last week, Kiro, the first AI coding tool built around spec-driven development, became generally available. This tool, which we pioneered to bring more clarity and structure to agentic workflows, has already been embraced by over 250,000 developers since its preview release. The GA launch introduces four new capabilities: property-based testing for spec correctness (which measures whether your code matches what you specified); a new way to checkpoint your progress on Kiro; a new Kiro CLI bringing agents to your terminal; and enterprise team plans with centralized management.

Last week’s launches

We’ve announced numerous new feature and service launches as we approach re:Invent week. Key launches include:

Here are some AWS bundled feature launches:

• Amazon EKS announces new Provisioned Control Plane, and fully managed MCP servers (preview) and enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the console with Amazon ECS.
• Amazon ECR introduces managed container image signing, archive storage class for rarely accessed container images, and AWS PrivateLink for FIPS Endpoints.
• Amazon Aurora DSQL provides an integrated query editor in the console, statement-level cost estimates in query plans, new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors, up to 256 TiB of storage volume.
• Amazon API Gateway supports response streaming for REST APIs, developer portal capabilities, and additional TLS security policies for REST APIs.
• Amazon Connect provides conversational analytics for voice, persistent agent connections for faster call handling, and multi skill agent scheduling.
• Amazon CloudWatch introduces scheduled queries in Logs Insights and in-console agent management on EC2.
• AWS CloudFormation StackSets offers deployment ordering for auto-deployment mode. You can define the sequence in which your stack instances automatically deploy across accounts and Regions.
• AWS NAT Gateway supports Regional availability to create a single NAT Gateway that automatically expands and contracts across availability zones (AZs).
• Amazon Bedrock supports OpenAI GPT OSS models for Custom Model Import, coding use cases for Guardrails, and 10 additional languages for speech analytics for Data Automation.
• Amazon OpenSearch supports Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility, backup and restore and audit logs for data plane APIs in Serverless through the console.

See AWS What’s New for more launch news that I haven’t covered here, and we’ll see you next week at re:Invent!

– Channy

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Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Billing Transfer, a new capability to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple organizations by transferring payment responsibility to other billing administrators, such as company affiliates and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners. This feature provides customers operating across multiple organizations with comprehensive visibility of cloud costs across their multi-organization environment, but organization administrators maintain security management autonomy over their accounts.

Customers use AWS Organizations to centrally administer and manage billing for their multi-account environment. However, when they operate in a multi-organization environment, billing administrators must access the management account of each organization separately to collect invoices and pay bills. This decentralized approach to billing management creates unnecessary complexity for enterprises managing costs and paying bills across multiple AWS organizations. This feature also will be useful for AWS Partners to resell AWS products and solutions, and assume the responsibility of paying AWS for the consumption of their multiple customers.

With Billing Transfer, customers operating in multi-organization environments can now use a single management account to manage aspects of billing— such as invoice collection, payment processing, and detailed cost analysis. This makes billing operations more efficient and scalable while individual management accounts can maintain complete security and governance autonomy over their accounts. Billing Transfer also helps protect proprietary pricing data by integrating with AWS Billing Conductor, so billing administrators can control cost visibility.

Getting started with Billing Transfer

To set up Billing Transfer, an external management account sends a billing transfer invitation to a management account called a bill-source account. If accepted, the external account becomes the bill-transfer account, managing and paying for the bill-source account’s consolidated bill, starting on the date specified on the invitation.

To get started, go to the Billing and Cost Management console, choose Preferences and Settings in the left navigation pane and choose Billing transfer. Choose Send invitation from a management account you’ll use to centrally manage billing across your multi-organization environment.

Now, you can send a billing transfer invitation by entering the email address or account ID of the bill-source accounts for which you want to manage billing. You should choose the monthly billing period for when invoicing and payment will begin and a pricing plan from AWS Billing Conductor to control the cost data visible to the bill-source accounts.

When you choose Send invitation, the bill-source accounts will get a billing transfer notice in the Outbound billing tab.

Choose View details, review the invitation page, and choose Accept.

After the transfer is accepted, all usage from the bill-source accounts will be billed to the bill-transfer account using its billing and tax settings, and invoices will no longer be sent to the bill-source accounts. Any party (bill-source accounts and bill-transfer account) can withdraw the transfer at any time.

After your billing transfer begins, the bill-transfer account will receive a bill at the end of the month for each of your billing transfers. To view transferred invoices reflecting the usage of the bill-source accounts, choose the Invoices tab in the Bills page.

You can identify the transferred invoices by bill-source account IDs. You can also find the payments for the bill-source accounts invoices in the Payments menu. These appear only in the bill-transfer account.

The bill-transfer account can use billing views to access the cost data of the bill-source accounts in AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report, AWS Budgets and Bills page. When enabling billing view mode, you can choose your desired billing view for each bill-source account.

The bill-source accounts will experience these changes:

• Historical cost data will no longer be available and should be downloaded before accepting
• Cost and Usage Reports should be reconfigured after transfer

Transferred bills in the bill-transfer account always use the tax and payment settings of the account to which they’re delivered. Therefore, all the invoices reflecting the usage of the bill-source accounts and the member accounts in their AWS Organizations will contain taxes (if applicable) calculated on the tax settings determined by the bill-transfer account.

Similarly, the seller of record and payment preferences are also based on the configuration determined by the bill-transfer account. You can customize the tax and payments settings by creating the invoice units available in the Invoice Configuration functionality.

To learn more about details, visit Billing Transfer in the AWS documentation.

Now available

Billing Transfer is available today in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more, visit the AWS Cloud Financial Management Services product page.

Give Billing Transfer a try today and send feedback to AWS re:Post for AWS Billing or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

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Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, and beyond:

• The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven
• A new era of energy efficiency drives innovation
• Technology tips the scales in the discovery of truth
• Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness
• Intention-driven consumer technology takes hold

Download the Werner Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond ebook, or read Werner’s All Things Distributed blog to learn more about how these technological trends are shaping our world and paving the way for a more innovative, efficient, and purposeful future.

AWS re:Invent 2025 videos and re:Caps
If you’re looking to catch up on re:Invent announcements or delve deeper into the latest AWS innovations, you have several options available:

Launches from the last few weeks
Since our last week in review on December 16, 2024, I’d like to highlight some launches from year end, as well as from last week:

Availability of Llama 3.3 70B in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and in Amazon Bedrock – Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B represents a significant advancement in model efficiency and performance optimization. Llama 3.3 70B is a text-only instruction-tuned model that provides enhanced performance relative to Llama 3.1 70B and Llama 3.2 90B, when used for text-only applications. You can now use the model in both Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, as well as Amazon Bedrock.

Availability of Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock – Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large by Stability AI is the most powerful model in the Stable Diffusion family at 8.1 billion parameters trained on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. You can now use Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock to generate high-quality images from text descriptions.

New Amazon Kinesis source connector for Apache Flink – The Apache Flink community has released version 5.0.0 of AWS services connectors, an AWS open source contribution. This release introduces the Kinesis Streams Source, a new connector for reading data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, replacing the previous Kinesis Consumer.

Support of AWS Global Accelerator in Amazon WorkSpaces Personal – Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now integrates with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) to enhance WorkSpaces connection performance by optimizing streaming traffic through the AWS Global Network and edge locations. This feature particularly benefits customers whose end users connect to WorkSpaces across long distances. You can enable the AGA feature at either the WorkSpaces directory level or for individual WorkSpaces running Amazon DCV protocol.

New resource insights in AWS Resource Explorer – With the enhanced Resource Explorer experience, relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services is centralized for supported resource types. You can use the new features to take actions on resources directly from the Resource Explorer console, such as manage tags, add resources to applications, and get additional information about a resource with Amazon Q.

General availability of custom billing view in AWS Billing and Cost Management – Custom billing view allows you to provide application and business unit owners access to relevant cost management data across multiple AWS accounts using a single view in AWS Cost Explorer without granting access to the AWS management account. You can create filtered views of cost management data based on cost allocation tags or specific AWS accounts.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS at CES 2025 (January 7-10) – AWS will be representing some of the latest cloud services and solutions that are purpose built for the automotive, mobility, transportation, and manufacturing industries. Join us to learn about the latest cloud capabilities across generative AI, software define vehicles, product engineering, sustainability, new digital customer experiences, connected mobility, autonomous driving, and so much more, in Amazon Experience Area.

AWS at NRF 2025 (January 12-14) – Join AWS at the retail’s big show to see generative AI and cutting-edge technologies in action. Listen to innovative big ideas sessions, curated TechTalks, and experience the latest in retail trends, technologies, and more.

Amazon QuickSight Learning Series – Kick off your 2025 by supercharging your data skills. Join the online Learning Series in January to learn about the cutting-edge features of Amazon QuickSight unveiled at re:Invent 2024.

You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

–Prasad

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

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