AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026)
AWS Curated Β· 2026-05-18
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Technical Details
| Regions | all |
|---|---|
| Cost Impact | Decrease |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update your modernization strategies to include AWS Transform custom transformations, which offer significant performance optimizations and automated testing capabilities for mainframe and Windows applications.
For Platform Teams
Adopt the new EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances to enhance your development workflows with increased memory, CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine capabilities, enabling faster Xcode simulations and ML workflows.
For Executives
Evaluate the impact of AWS Transform on your enterprise applications to leverage its modernization capabilities, which have already saved 1.6+ million hours and processed 4.5+ billion lines of code in the past year.
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