Macro Briefing: 10 July 2024

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* Fed Chair Powell says keeping rates too high for too long threatens growth * Financial stocks lead S&P 500 to new record high * There’s a case for international investing for long-term investors * China inflation remains soft in June, reflecting weak consumer demand * China auto exports surge, helping offset sales slump at home * Workers to strike indefinitely at South Korea tech giant Sam...

AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 R8g instances: best price performance in Amazon EC2

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Today, I am very excited to announce that the new AWS Graviton4-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances, that have been available in preview since re:Invent 2023, are now generally available to all... AWS offers more than 150 different AWS Graviton-powered Amazon EC2 instance types globally at scale, has built more than 2 million Graviton processors, and has more than 50,000 ...

Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale – Part 2

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Empower developers to author application policies If you’re the only developer working in your cloud environment, then you naturally write your own IAM policies... However, a common trend we’ve seen within organizations that are scaling up their cloud usage is that a centralized security, identity, or cloud team administrator will step in to help developers write customized IAM policies on b...

Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale – Part 1

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You might feel comfortable writing a few least privilege policies for yourself, but to scale this up to thousands of developers or hundreds of AWS accounts requires strategy to minimize the total effort needed across an organization... Centralized teams (such as a cloud environmentteam or identity and access management team) commonly create these initial default roles and policies that you deploy...

8 key VMware questions answered at the Azure VMware Solution digital event

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The 2023 changeups in the VMware landscape have created uncertainty and spurred discussions about long-term strategy—your company may be wondering what the future holds for the VMware workloads running in your datacenter... Over the past 25 years, many organizations like yours have built their on-premises IT foundation on VMware—and today the cost of remaining on-premises is higher than ever.....

Top four ways to improve your Security Hub security score

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AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that performs security best practice checks across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and AWS Regions, aggregates alerts, and enables automated remediation... Security Hub is designed to simplify and streamline the management of security-related data from various AWS services and third-party tools... It provides a holistic...

Is The US Economy Flirting With Recession?

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Judging by the analysis in some circles, a recession is a forgone conclusion... More cautious types argue that the expansion continues, but just barely, and that a formal recession will likely start at some point in the next several months...Let’s start with an indicator that’s animated recession chatter in recent days: the so-called Sahm rule... Named for economist Claudia Sahm, who develop...