DevOps

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 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 ...