AWS re:Invent 2025 - The Industry Perspective: Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, and Retail

This IDC Market Note discusses AWS re:Invent 2025, which demonstrated the company's deep commitment to AI, data, and cloud. The event showcased AWS' many industry-specific solutions across key verticals such as public sector, financial services, manufacturing, media and entertainment, healthcare, life sciences, and retail. Central themes included agentic and generative AI, sovereign and governed deployments, and the modernization of legacy systems. AWS emphasized practical, secure, and scalable AI adoption, with real-world use cases and partnerships driving measurable operational improvements. The event highlighted a shift from AI as isolated tools to foundational, integrated platforms, positioning AWS as a catalyst for industry transformation and operational resilience.