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
- Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances
- Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
- Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.
- ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones
- 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
- Introducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic’s native platform, through your AWS account
- Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate pricing plan now supports higher, configurable usage allowances
- Scalable cross-cloud data migration to Amazon S3 with distributed rclone
- Dirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernels
- CVE-2026-8178 - Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Class Loading in Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver
- Fragnesia Local Privilege Escalation report via ESP-in-TCP in the Linux Kernel
- Ongoing updates on Copy.fail and variants
- Issue with Amazon SageMaker Python SDK - Model artifact integrity verification issues (CVE-2026-8596 &: CVE-2026-8597)

