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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: May 15, 2026. Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available in six additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). Amazon EMR Serverless is a deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple and cost effective for data engineers and analysts ...

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announces that the AWS Transform agents — built on decades of AWS migration and modernization experience — are now accessible through a Kiro power, agent plugins, and via the AWS Transform MCP server. Developers can now consume all of AWS Transform’s capabilities directly from their preferred development environment, whether working interactively ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudFront announces Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer). Published context: May 14, 2026. Amazon CloudFront now supports passthrough mode for viewer mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication, enabling customers to forward client certificates to their origin for validation without requiring CloudFront to perform certificate verification. Passthrough mode allows customers with existing mTLS implementations at their origins to use CloudFront without requirin 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 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 ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management. Published context: May 15, 2026. I’m a Type 1 diabetic and software engineer. Last year I went months between endocrinologists with no clinician reviewing my data. I’m an engineer, so I built the tool I needed — and now I’m open sourcing it. GlycemicGPT is a self-hosted platform that connects continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and existing Nightscout instances to an AI analysis lay ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent now supports full repository code reviews. Published context: May 12, 2026. Today, AWS announces the release of full repository code review , a new capability in AWS Security Agent that performs deep, context-aware security analysis of your entire codebase. Unlike traditional static analysis tools that match code against known vulnerability patterns, full repository code review reasons about your application’s architecture, trust bo ...

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 ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents. Published context: May 13, 2026. Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software. 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 AWS Transform adds containerization capability during migrations. Published context: May 11, 2026. AWS Transform now supports replatforming applications to containers during migration to AWS. This release extends AWS Transform’s agentic AI capabilities to automate the containerization of your source code, enabling you to migrate and modernize in parallel, reducing the time and complexity of moving from on-premises to cloud-native architectures. Migration 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 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 ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies. Published context: May 12, 2026. Altman said that Musk’s focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew “founders who had control usually did not give it up.” ...