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)