--- title: "M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar" id: "15366" type: "podcast" slug: "m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar" published_at: "2026-05-18T10:00:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-05-18T10:00:50+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/m3-ultra-macs-claude-platform-and-619-new-apis-walk-into-a-bar.md" taxonomy_shows: - "Last Week In AWS Podcast" --- About the Author Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305) [https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief](https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief) [https://pca.st/AKs0](https://pca.st/AKs0) [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583) [https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU](https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU) [https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief](https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief) ## Episode Summary ## Episode Show Notes & Transcript AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn. **Links:** - [Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-ec2-m3-ultra-mac-instances-generally-available/) - [Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-eventbridge-sdk-integrations/) - [Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-redshift-rg-instances-powered-by-graviton) - [Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-route-53-domains/) - [ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/ena-express-availability-zones/) - [Streaming CloudWatch metrics to VPC-based OpenTelemetry collectors using Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/streaming-cloudwatch-metrics-to-vpc-based-opentelemetry-collectors-using-lambda/) - [How HotelTrader cut inter-AZ cost 95% and latency by 49% with Valkey GLIDE on Amazon ElastiCache](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-hoteltrader-cut-inter-az-cost-95-and-latency-by-49-with-valkey-glide-on-amazon-elasticache/) - [Introducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic’s native platform, through your AWS account](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-claude-platform-on-aws-anthropics-native-platform-through-your-aws-account/) - [Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate pricing plan now supports higher, configurable usage allowances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/cloudfront-premium-flat-rate-plan-supports-configurable-usage-allowances/) - [Scalable cross-cloud data migration to Amazon S3 with distributed rclone](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/scalable-cross-cloud-data-migration-to-amazon-s3-with-distributed-rclone/) - [Dirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernels](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-027-aws/) - [CVE-2026-8178 - Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Class Loading in Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-028-aws/) - [Fragnesia Local Privilege Escalation report via ESP-in-TCP in the Linux Kernel](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-029-aws/) - [Ongoing updates on Copy.fail and variants](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-030-aws/) - [Issue with Amazon SageMaker Python SDK - Model artifact integrity verification issues (CVE-2026-8596 &: CVE-2026-8597)](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-031-aws/) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [AI-Native Foundations and the CVEs That Love Them](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/ai-native-foundations-and-the-cves-that-love-them/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.11.2026 7 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/ai-native-foundations-and-the-cves-that-love-them/) ### [Bedrock Bags OpenAI, Q Developer Bags Groceries](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bedrock-bags-openai-q-developer-bags-groceries/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 05.04.2026 9 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/bedrock-bags-openai-q-developer-bags-groceries/) ### [The Week AWS Discovered JOIN Statements](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-discovered-join-statements/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 04.27.2026 10 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-discovered-join-statements/)