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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

US engineering salaries keep climbing while hiring stays slow. More US teams are solving both problems the same way: hiring senior nearshore developers in Latin America who work US hours, communicate in fluent English, and cost meaningfully less than a domestic hire. Here’s how to do it well. Want vetted LATAM engineers on your team in days, not months? See LATAM developers or book a free call. Offshore vs nearshore vs onshore “Cheaper engineers” usually means far-offshore - and the timezone gap is what kills it. Nearshore is different: ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week. Published context: June 16, 2026. Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089 over the past 24 hours. CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS score: 9.1) refers to a path traversal vulnerability ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (Public Preview). Published context: June 16, 2026. Today, AWS announces the public preview of a new storage migration capability for AWS Transform that enables application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams to migrate block storage workloads from any on-premises or cloud source to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), alongside the existing Amazon EBS option. AWS Transform for ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Tag Propagation for Managed Resources. Published context: June 15, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, enabling you to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon ENIs. This helps you enforce cost allocation, service control policies (SCPs), and compliance requirements across all resources provisioned by your capacity providers. LMI ...