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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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 1, 2026. You can now use GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 in production workloads on Amazon Bedrock and build with Codex for AI-powered software development, with the same security, governance, and operational controls you already use across AWS. GPT-5.5 is the most capable model from OpenAI, excelling at agentic coding, data analysis, and multi-step autonomous tasks. It runs on ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Published context: June 1, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% bette ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks. Published context: June 5, 2026. Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the information stealer “scrapes every secret it can find on a developer’s machine, hides be ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock adds Amazon CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Published context: June 1, 2026. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock customers can now monitor inference traffic to the bedrock-mantle endpoint with Amazon CloudWatch metrics, the same way they already ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now provides CDC iterator position. Published context: June 3, 2026. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now returns an iterator position in the GetRecords response for change data capture (CDC) streams, indicating whether a consumer has reached the tip of the stream or whether additional records may be available. Amazon Keyspaces is a scalable, serverless, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that let ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock launches a redesigned console optimized for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Published context: June 4, 2026. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces a console experience designed for how customers actually build with foundation models: experiment, iterate, and sca ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration. Published context: June 2, 2026. AWS today announced that AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) provides new integration options with AWS Athena and AWS Redshift. This capability allows customers to analyze the data from their AWS CUR 2.0 in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL without building custom data warehouse solutions, bringing feature parity with CUR 1.0 i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon OpenSearch UI is now available in GovCloud regions. Published context: June 5, 2026. Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to GovCloud regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The expansion includes Workspaces to enhance collaboration and productivity, 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. ...