Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available. Published context: June 10, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances , powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed AWS processors, delivering the best price performance for general purpose workloads running on Amazon EC2 . ​​M9g instances serve a broad range of ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models now available in US East (N. Virginia) on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 11, 2026. Today, AWS announces the expanded availability of OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models, which are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region on Amazon Bedrock. With GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, coding, computer use, document workflows, and long-running agentic tasks. GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s most capable mo ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now. Published context: June 9, 2026. Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. “Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Goog ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS FinOps Agent is now available in preview. Published context: June 9, 2026. Today, AWS announces the preview of AWS FinOps Agent, a frontier agent for FinOps practitioners and engineering teams that answers cost questions, surfaces optimization opportunities, automatically investigates cost anomalies, and runs recurring FinOps workflows on a schedule you define. With the AWS FinOps Agent, you can ask questions about your AWS costs a ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models. Published context: June 10, 2026. For Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models on Bedrock with similar or higher capability levels, Anthropic will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models. Retaining data for a limited period allows Anthropic to detect patterns of misuse that are not visible from a single exchange. Once you opt into data retention, your data will leave AW ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces Claude Fable 5, the first generally available Mythos-class model. Published context: June 9, 2026. Claude Fable 5 is generally available on AWS and makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use. Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks and delivers a step-change in autonomous knowledge work and coding for developers and enterprises building production AI appli ...

AWS bills creep. A proof-of-concept that became production, an oversized instance nobody resized, a dev environment running 24/7 - it adds up quietly until someone finally asks “why are we paying this much?” The good news: most AWS overspend comes from a short list of fixable causes. Here’s how to reduce your AWS bill, roughly in order of effort-to-savings ratio. Want a senior set of eyes on your account? See managed cloud teams, book a free call, or grab the free AWS checklist. ...

If you’re a founder weighing whether to bring in a fractional CTO, the first question is usually blunt: what does this actually cost, and is it worth it versus just hiring someone? Here’s an honest breakdown. Prefer to talk specifics for your situation? See fractional CTO services, book a free call, or start with the free AWS security checklist. The real cost of a full-time CTO Before comparing, be honest about the alternative. A full-time CTO in the US isn’t just their salary. The fully loaded cost includes: ...

Most AWS accounts don’t get breached because of some exotic zero-day. They get breached - or hit with a surprise bill - because of boring, fixable misconfigurations that nobody owned: a public S3 bucket, a long-lived access key, a security group open to 0.0.0.0/0, CloudTrail that was never turned on. This is the checklist I actually run when I audit a client’s AWS account. Work through it honestly. Every box you can’t tick is a risk, a surprise bill, or a 2 a.m. incident waiting to happen. Most teams can get through it in an afternoon. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances expands to additional AWS Regions. Published context: June 8, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, except Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Auckland). LMI lets you run Lambda functions on managed Amazon EC2 instances, giving you access to specialized compute configurations and EC2 pricing advantages while maintaining Lambda’s ope ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server migration cost assessment capabilities now available in AWS Transform. Published context: June 8, 2026. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers TCO assessment in AWS Transform, so you can estimate costs when migrating on-premises SQL Server databases to RDS for SQL Server. Using AI-powered agents, AWS Transform analyzes your on-premises SQL Server environment and provides optimal database instance recommendations that meet your workload requirements and reduce co ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust. Published context: June 8, 2026. What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don’t have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design ...