Amazon Inspector is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Inspector is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Published context: May 19, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon Inspector in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads including Amazon EC2 instances, container images, and AWS Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure across your AWS Organi ...

May 20, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS SAM CLI adds AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions support to accelerate local serverle...

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 ...

May 19, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems

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 ...

May 18, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23

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 ...

May 17, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.2...

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 ...

May 16, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region. Published context: May 14, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances are available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. X8aedz instances are built using the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards an ...

May 15, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle SE2 License Included

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle SE2 License Included. Published context: May 13, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI). M8i and R8i 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 new instances offer ...

May 14, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances. Published context: May 12, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports scheduled scaling for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances, using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This capability allows you to define one-time or recurring schedules that proactively adjust your function’s capacity limits ahead of expected traffic, to meet your performance targets during peak periods and avoid costs during idl ...

May 13, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones. Published context: May 11, 2026. Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express now supports traffic between Amazon EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within a Region, delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance. SRD is a reliable network protocol that deliver ...

May 12, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryption

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryption. Published context: May 7, 2026. The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides column-level client-side encryption through its KMS Encryption plugin. The wrapper provides advanced capabilities such as failover handling, AWS authentication integration, and enhanced monitoring for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS open source databases. It enables Java applications to encrypt sensitive data before it 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. ...

May 11, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic. Published context: May 7, 2026. Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS64 on inbound endpoints and IPv6 forwarding through the internet gateway (IGW) on outbound endpoints, making it easier to manage hybrid DNS across IPv4 and IPv6 networks. With DNS64 enabled on inbound endpoints, you can synthesize AAAA (IPv6) responses for domains that only have A (IPv4) records, allowing IPv ...

May 10, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez

AWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Published context: May 8, 2026. AWS Service Catalog is now available to customers in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and distribute a catalog of approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products for deployment on AWS. Administrators define products using AWS CloudFormation or other IaC t ...

May 9, 2026 · 2 min · David Gomez