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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations. Published context: June 3, 2026. AWS Compute Optimizer now lets you extend the lookback period of your Amazon EBS volume and Amazon ECS rightsizing recommendations from the default 14 days to 32 days, at no additional cost. A longer lookback period allows Compute Optimizer to account for monthly utilization patterns, such as month-end processing, when generating rightsizing recommendations. ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 300 SaaS tools. Published context: June 4, 2026. Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/accessowl/jobs/hfWAhVp-ai-enabled-senior-software-engineer-typescript-focus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397435 Points: 0 # Comments: 0 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability. Published context: June 2, 2026. Today, AWS announces durability support for Amazon ElastiCache. Durability enables you to use ElastiCache for workloads that require microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss. With durability support, ElastiCache now stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using a Multi-AZ transactional log to enable fast failover, database 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media. Published context: June 2, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) for Microsoft SQL Server. With BYOM, customers who migrate SQL Server applications from on-premises environments can adopt a managed database service on AWS and reuse their existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses, including Software Assurance, through Microsoft ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS PCS now provides a production-ready Deep Learning AMI. Published context: June 1, 2026. Today, AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) launches PCS-ready DLAMI, an AWS-maintained Amazon Machine Image built on the Deep Learning Base GPU AMI (Ubuntu 24.04). It provides a production-quality foundation for AI/ML training and high performance computing (HPC), with core infrastructure components pre-installed and tested for compatibility. AWS PCS is ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 1, 2026. OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Deploy frontier models on Bedrock’s high performance inference engine with built-in security, governance, and pay-per-token pricing. 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance. Published context: June 1, 2026. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries, so organizations that enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) requiring permissions boundaries on all IAM roles can adopt SageMaker Unified Studio without modifying their security posture. When a user creates a project, SageMaker Unified Studio provisions three IAM roles: a proje ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI. Published context: June 2, 2026. Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo. 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions. Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, streamlining tabular data storage at scale. S3 Tables automatically perform continual table maintenance to optimize query efficiency and reduce storage costs as you ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: May 28, 2026. Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. DynamoDB Streams captures time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications in DynamoDB tables, enabling real-time data processing and event-driven architectures. This enhancement allows government agencies and orga ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported OpenAI Codex Authentication Tokens Stolen in codexui-android npm Supply Chain Attack. Published context: June 1, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious supply chain campaign that’s targeting developers using OpenAI Codex through a legitimate-looking remote web UI. The tool, named codexui-android, is advertised on GitHub and npm as a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex, attracting over 29,000 weekly downloads. The package is still available for d ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier. Published context: May 29, 2026. AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds. Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. With AWS Interconnect - multicloud, AWS simplified the way cloud services providers (CSPs) off ...