Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication. Published context: May 26, 2026. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express for replication traffic between Availability Zones. ENA Express uses AWS’s Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to optimize network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth for cross-AZ replication traffic leveraging advanced congestion control and multi-pathing capabilities, and red 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 27, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds new query commands and functions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds new query commands and functions. Published context: May 21, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language now supports 13 new commands and functions that give you more powerful ways to query, transform, and analyze your logs. Customers analyzing logs in CloudWatch Logs Insights often need to perform string manipulation, encode or decode field values, parse non-JSON log formats, or calculate geographic distances, so ...

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9. Published context: May 8, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

May 25, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users, while enabling organizations to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking ...

May 24, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

New agentic migration assessment capabilities now available with AWS Transform

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported New agentic migration assessment capabilities now available with AWS Transform. Published context: May 22, 2026. AWS Transform now offers advanced migration assessment capabilities including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, flexible file format support, and multiple new total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment features. These latest features let you quickly build a migration business case and accelerate your migration decisions. You can start your migration ...

May 23, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available. Published context: May 21, 2026. Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL 8.4, a community MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) major version. Aurora MySQL 8.4 launches with compatibility for community MySQL 8.4.7 and introduces aligned version numbering, so the version number you run on Aurora matches the community MySQL version it is compatible with. Aurora also manages the unde ...

May 22, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Security Hub now uncovers identity risks from unused access

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub now uncovers identity risks from unused access. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub brings identity risk into the same unified console where central security teams already manage threats, exposures, and posture findings. Security Hub now detects unused IAM permissions, roles, and credentials across your AWS organization, helping central security teams identify and reduce identity risk at scale. Until now, managing id ...

May 21, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 min · David Gomez