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Bartek Chojnacki

$ AWS Architect · DevOps · Cloud
Monday, October 12, 2026

GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection Gets Five New Attack Indicators

Amazon GuardDuty now tags attack sequences with five new indicator types—MALICIOUS_PACKAGE, MISCONFIGURATION, REACHABILITY, SENSITIVE_DATA, and VULNERABILITY—making it easier to spot the full picture of threats in your cloud environment. As a cloud engineer, you should review your GuardDuty findings to leverage these richer signals and catch attack chains earlier before they escalate.

source: [aws/security-blog]

AWS Lambda Web Functions: Direct HTTP Handling Without the Server Headaches

AWS just dropped Lambda Web Functions, letting your code handle HTTP requests directly using familiar frameworks like Express or Hono—no adapters needed. You're getting Node.js support across five regions (US East/West, Tokyo, Ireland) with pay-per-active-CPU pricing, multi-region routing, and native HTTP streaming that'll make your AI endpoints and SSR apps way snappier.

source: [aws/whats-new]

also that day:

Sunday, October 11, 2026
Saturday, October 10, 2026

AWS Security Hub Now Lets You Export Findings Straight to S3

AWS Security Hub just dropped native CSV and JSON export to S3, so you can skip building custom extraction pipelines for compliance reports and audit trails. Grab findings from any view—Threats, Vulnerabilities, Posture Management, you name it—and have them land in your S3 bucket on demand. This is live across all AWS regions where Security Hub operates.

source: [aws/whats-new]