AWS

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain. Published context: September 2, 2026. SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall’s William Perry and Adam Babis, are listed below - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A pre-authentication SSRF vulnera ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Automated Security Response on AWS adds AI Toolkit for custom remediations. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, AWS announced four new capabilities for Automated Security Response on AWS (ASR). Customers can now use an AI-driven Toolkit that generates custom remediations using any AI assistant with built-in safety guardrails. In addition, customers can automatically remediate findings from Amazon Inspector, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Macie. Customers can also ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL. Published context: September 1, 2026. Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, to give you a complete view of your database fleet in a single console. Amazon CloudWatch Datab ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development. Published context: September 1, 2026. Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://norirobotics.com ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs hav ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing. Published context: August 31, 2026. Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). You can access Amazon Redshift with single sign-on with your corporate credentials, and the traffic traverses Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and stays on the AWS network. This is valuabl ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Agent Registry agents and MCP servers now available in Amazon Quick. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization’s AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick. AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, user ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd memory optimized instances are now available. Published context: August 31, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R9g and R9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. R9g instances are ideal for memory-intensive work ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Workload Credentials Provider is now available as a one-click install for Linux and Windows. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces one-click installation for the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (AWCP) on Amazon Linux and Windows, reducing setup from a multi-step build-from-source process to a single command. AWCP resolves secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and caches them locally, enabling applications to retrieve secrets over a local HTTP endpoint. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and 26ai. We recommend upgrading to the July 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with July 2026 releases, the naming format for an RU in Oracle Database 19c changes t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. Published context: August 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) 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% better pri ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. Published context: August 28, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the c ...