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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available. Published context: May 11, 2026. Today, AWS announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new service that gives customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude Platform experience through their existing AWS account. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer access to the native Claude Platform experience. Developers and organizations now have the choice to access Anth ...

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling. Published context: May 11, 2026. AWS WAF now supports dynamic label interpolation, enabling you to forward WAF classification signals to your origin and embed context in responses with a single rule. Security engineers who previously maintained a separate rule for every signal value can now use ${namespace:} syntax in custom request headers, response headers, and response bodies to forward ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES Mail Manager now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: May 7, 2026. Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding Mail Manager coverage to 30 AWS regions. Amazon SES Mail Manager provides a centralized gateway to manage all inbound and outbound email traffic with advanced routing, filtering, and archiving capabilities. It simplifies complex email infrastructure by replacing the need for mul ...

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. ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data. Published context: May 11, 2026. Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics’ data backbone. 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 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: May 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) 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 ...

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 ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise. Published context: May 8, 2026. A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers’ systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. “QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentia ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Agents that transact: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview). Published context: May 7, 2026. Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore announces the preview of AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, AgentCore payments is the first managed payment capabilities purpose-built for autonomous agents, handling the full payment lifecycl ...

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation. Published context: May 8, 2026. IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Java applications and Terraform-aware policy generation, expanding its language coverage and its ability to generate less permissive IAM policies from code. IAM Policy Autopilot is an open-source tool launched at re:Invent 2025 that helps builders quickly and deterministically create baseline IAM policies on AWS that you can ...