# AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry Config

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Published: 2026-04-17T19:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 900

## Resource

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about networking, ingress, and private access moving further up into the platform layer. Brian covers AWS Interconnect going generally available, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19.0 breaking changes around Gateway API and bundled services, EKS Auto Mode networking, and OpenTelemetry declarative config reaching stability. He also hits containerd security patches, GitHub’s new Code Security risk assessment, and AWS guidance on securing AI agents with MCP. ( Amazon Web Services, Inc. ) Links AWS Interconnect GA and last mile connectivity https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-interconnect-is-now-generally-available-with-a-new-option-to-simplify-last-mile-connectivity/ Cloudflare Mesh https://blog.cloudflare.com/mesh/ GitLab 19.0 breaking changes https://about.gitlab.com/blog/a-guide-to-the-breaking-changes-in-gitlab-19-0/ EKS Auto Mode networking https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/navigating-enterprise-networking-challenges-with-amazon-eks-auto-mode/ OpenTelemetry declarative config reaches stability https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/stable-declarative-config/ containerd security releases https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases GitHub Code Security risk assessment for organizations https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-08-code-security-risk-assessment-available-for-organizations/ AWS secure AI agent access patterns using MCP https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/secure-ai-agent-access-patterns-to-aws-resources-using-model-context-protocol/ This week’s On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief/2026-W16/ More episodes and show notes https://shipitweekly.fm/

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