Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress. Published context: June 18, 2026. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) introduces customer-routed control plane egress, a capability that lets you route outbound Kubernetes API server traffic through your own Amazon VPC. This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. With customer-routed control plane egr The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

June 19, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy. Published context: June 17, 2026. Today, AWS announces that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy, giving enterprises deeper safety and security controls as they scale AI agents in production. AgentCore policy is an authorization capability within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that controls which actions AI agents are authorized to take. Guardrails give enterprises de ...

June 19, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances. Published context: June 16, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches memory-optimized X2m database instances. Based on the Amazon EC2 X2iedn instance, X2m database instances provide the Amazon RDS Optimize CPU feature, which allows customers to reduce SQL Server software licensing costs by 50% or more compared to Amazon RDS x2iedn database instances for m ...

June 19, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M. Published context: June 19, 2026. DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago. The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

June 19, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for Agentic Web Retrieval

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for Agentic Web Retrieval. Published context: June 16, 2026. As AI agents become more capable, they need access to information beyond a model’s training data - to answer questions, retrieve latest facts, and take action grounded in current developments. Today, we’re making that easy with the general availability of Web Search on AgentCore. Web Search is a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in c ...

June 18, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AgentCore harness in now generally available

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore harness in now generally available. Published context: June 17, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of the managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, taking teams from idea to working agents in minutes. An agent is more than a model. If the model is the brain, the harness is the body: everything the brain needs to get work done. It runs the orchestration loop, executes tools, manages the context window, ...

June 18, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029. Published context: June 17, 2026. Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now offer Amazon RDS Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027. This applies to Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) and RDS for MySQL version 5.7, giving customers additional time to plan ...

June 18, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS Secrets Manager introduces safe secrets handling in the Agent Toolkit for AWS

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager introduces safe secrets handling in the Agent Toolkit for AWS. Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now offers a secret safety skill as part of the aws-core plugin in the Agent Toolkit for AWS , an open-source repository that equips AI coding agents with tools, knowledge, and guardrails for building on AWS. The skill lets developers use secrets within agentic workflows without ever exposing secret values to the underlying model or sessi ...

June 18, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026. Published context: June 17, 2026. Breaches don’t always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop — like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication — anything internet-facing is immediately at risk. Wit ...

June 17, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Grok 4.3 from xAI now available in Amazon Bedrock

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Grok 4.3 from xAI now available in Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 15, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of xAI’s Grok 4.3 model on Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider, giving you even more choice as you build generative AI applications across reasoning, agentic, and enterprise workflows. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model that offers configurable reasoning effort (none, low, medi ...

June 17, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS Transform now supports model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform now supports model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads. Published context: June 16, 2026. AWS Transform now offers a model-to-model migration custom transformation that assesses your generative AI workloads and produces a comprehensive migration plan for moving from third-party providers to Amazon Bedrock. The AI-powered agent scans your codebase, identifies every AI SDK and model in use, gathers your migration requirements through interactive qu ...

June 17, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS (Preview). Published context: June 16, 2026. Today, AWS announces the public preview of AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework for application developers who want backend capabilities on AWS removing the need to learn infrastructure tools. AWS Blocks runs a fully functional local environment with Postgres, authentication, and real-time messaging, no AWS account required. When ready to deploy, ...

June 17, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez