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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudFront announces support for OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer). Published context: May 14, 2026. Amazon CloudFront now supports Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) revocation checking for viewer mTLS, enabling you to validate client certificate revocation status in real time during connection establishment. This enables customers using mutual TLS (mTLS) on CloudFront to verify that client certificates haven’t been revoked before accepting connecti ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS SAM CLI adds AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions support to accelerate local serverless development. Published context: May 18, 2026. AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions , enabling you to reduce duplication in your infrastructure as code (IaC) templates while retaining the full local development workflow. This accelerates your serverless development by letting you define resources once and iterate locally without waiting for cloud deployments. Developers frequen ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare. Published context: May 18, 2026. Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs. 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. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs). Published context: May 15, 2026. AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs). The maximum number of SCPs that can be attached to a single node (root, OU, or account) has increased from 5 to 10, and the maximum SCP size has increased from 5,120 to 10,240 characters. With these higher quotas, you can write SCPs with finer-grained permissions and conditions ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems. Published context: May 18, 2026. Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts “cldflt.sys,” which refers to the Wind ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain. Published context: May 18, 2026. Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud crede ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation. Published context: May 15, 2026. Today, AWS announces that the AWS Partner Central agents now accelerate opportunity creation through natural language conversation. AWS Partner Central agents , released on March 16, 2026, are AI-powered capabilities built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that help partners surface pipeline insights, advance deals with next-step recommendations, and identify fund 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. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23. Published context: May 14, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL community. This releas ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Two new models for agentic coding and efficient AI are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announced the availability of GLM-5.1-FP8 and Phi-4-mini-instruct in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These models from Z.ai and Microsoft bring advanced agentic capabilities and efficient inference to enterprise AI workloads on AWS infrastructure. These models address different e ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: May 15, 2026. Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available in six additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). Amazon EMR Serverless is a deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple and cost effective for data engineers and analysts ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224. Published context: May 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224. We recommend that you upgrade to these versions to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announces that the AWS Transform agents — built on decades of AWS migration and modernization experience — are now accessible through a Kiro power, agent plugins, and via the AWS Transform MCP server. Developers can now consume all of AWS Transform’s capabilities directly from their preferred development environment, whether working interactively ...