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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing metal-48xl and metal-96xl for Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances. Published context: June 9, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. Thes ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Lightsail is now available in three additional AWS Regions. Published context: June 12, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion brings the power and simplicity of Lightsail to customers across new geographies in Asia, South America, and Europe. With this launch, customers in these geographical regions can now enjoy lowe ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported ShinyHunters Exploits Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273) to Breach Universities. Published context: June 11, 2026. The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest. Google’s Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks as UNC6240, and dates the activity between May 27 and June 9. Oracle did not publish its advisory un ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Gemma 4 models now available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 10, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of the Gemma 4 family of open-weight models from Google DeepMind on Amazon Bedrock . With Gemma 4, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic, and software engineering workflows. The Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock includes three variants—Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, an ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18. Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with version 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management, and introduces support for pg_roaringbitmap, a new extension that performs fast, memory-efficient set operations on large collections of integers. This enabl 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 TechCrunch recently reported Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world. Published context: June 12, 2026. The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion. 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 The Hacker News recently reported Ivanti, Fortinet, and SAP Release Patches for Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities. Published context: June 10, 2026. Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have released security updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The security flaw patched by Fortinet relates to a command injection vulnerability in FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud, and FortiSandbox PaaS WEB UI. It’s tracked as CVE-2026- ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication. Published context: June 10, 2026. Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication, enabling customers to deploy tracing, profiling, and security agents that require access to application processes and shared IPC resources on ECS Managed Instances . With this launch, you can configure two new settings in ECS daemon definitions: pidMode controls whether the daemo ...

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 ...