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

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 &amp: CVE-2026-8597)