Macro Briefing: 7 March 2024

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“As central banks begin to shrink their balance sheets through quantitative tightening, the net supply of bonds to be absorbed by the broader market will increase to record levels,” the OECD advises... “This will result in a growing share of bonds being held by more price sensitive investors, such as the non-bank financial sector and households...* House approves first step to avert partial...

Azure multicloud networking: Native and partner solutions

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Enterprise customers are increasingly adopting multiple cloud providers—per a recent Gartner Survey, By 2027, over 90% of enterprises will adopt multicloud models, up from 80% in 2023, for differentiated capabilities and interoperability and to mitigate vendor lock-in risks...1 The intentional drivers for this trend include data sovereignty, which refers to the legal requirement to store data ...

Amazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloads

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large --engine mysql --master-username masteruser --master-user-password <enter password> --allocated-storage 400 --iops 3000 Similarly, to modify an existing RDS instance to use io2 Block Express volume: aws rds modify-db-instance --db-instance-identifier existing-db-instance --storage-type io2 --allocated-storage 500 --iops 3000 --apply-immediately Things to know io2 Block Express v...

Introducing the newest Heroes of the year – March 2024

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And these technical experts are never done learning—they’re passionate about solving problems and creating content to enable the community to build faster on AWS... He co-organizes the Wrocław AWS User Group, and is passionate about contributing to the growth and engagement of the local AWS community... Hazel enjoys sharing her knowledge with the community through technical talks at local an...

AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024

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With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI)... From March 18-22, AWS for Games invites developers to connect with its team and see new AWS for Games and partner solutions in action at ...

Efficiently fine-tune the ESM-2 protein language model with Amazon SageMaker

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This includes large language models (LLMs) pretrained on huge datasets, which can then be adapted for specific tasks, like text summarization or chatbots... Similarly, pLMs are pre-trained on large protein sequence databases using unlabeled, self-supervised learning... This means that it can take a long time to train them to sufficient accuracy... Long training times, plus large instances, equ...

Will Powell’s House Testimony Today Shift Rate-Cut Expectations?

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6) and markets will be all ears on topics that offer guidance on the outlook for interest-rate cuts... The Fed funds futures market this morning is pricing in a roughly 70% probability that Powell and company will trim the current 5...”The Treasury market, however, remains relatively confident that a rate cut is brewing, based on the policy sensitive 2-yea yield, which remains well below th...