Amazon ECS Express Mode adds ARM64/Graviton support

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:03:42 +0000

Platform/SRE — Plan: ECS Express Mode now supports ARM64 as a GA option, enabling Graviton-powered workloads with up to 40% better price-performance. Worth evaluating as an architecture choice for new or cost-sensitive services this quarter, with no deadline pressure.
CI/CD — Skip
Leader — Plan: Graviton ARM64 support in ECS Express Mode represents a concrete FinOps opportunity — evaluate adopting Graviton as part of the standard compute profile to capture the claimed 40% price-performance improvement in this quarter’s platform roadmap.

CodeQL 2.27.0 adds Linux ARM64 support and new Rust security query

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:43:05 +0000

Platform/SRE — Skip
CI/CD — Plan: If your pipelines run CodeQL on ARM64 Linux runners, upgrading to 2.27.0 unlocks native support; also worth evaluating the new Rust security query and expanded Java/Kotlin and C# framework coverage for any affected repositories.
Leader — Skip