M3 Ultra Macs, Claude Platform, and 619 New APIs Walk Into a Bar

May 18 · 7 min · Episode 720 · 17.1 MB

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn.

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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 &amp: CVE-2026-8597)