Macro Briefing: 20 August 2025

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US housing starts rose to a five-month high in July, led by construction of multi-family units... They stockpiled goods before tariffs kicked in... started levying tariffs of about 15% on dozens of countries... That was on top of China tariffs of 30%...” Widening Treasury yield spreads could be an opportunity for investors, but uncertainty on the inflation outlook still suggests caution, advises...

How CommBank made their CommSec trading platform highly available and operationally resilient

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Using Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift, they can perform a failover to minimize impact to the customer in case of infrastructure or application gray failures while satisfying the requirement to have a physical and logical isolation using multiple Availability Zones in a Region... ARC zonal shift was enabled on their load balancers, so the CommSec team could divert traffic ...

Simplify access control and auditing for Amazon SageMaker Studio using trusted identity propagation

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AWS supports trusted identity propagation, a feature that allows AWS services to securely propagate a user’s identity across service boundaries... With trusted identity propagation, you have fine-grained access controls based on a physical user’s identity rather than relying on IAM roles... Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity propagation, offering a powerful solution for ent...

Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances

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Today, we’re announcing general availability of the new eighth generation, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS... These instances deliver up to 15 percent better price performance, 20 percent higher performance, and 2...5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generation ...

Benchmarking document information localization with Amazon Nova

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Every day, enterprises process thousands of documents containing critical business information... From invoices and purchase orders to forms and contracts, accurately locating and extracting specific fields has traditionally been one of the most complex challenges in document processing pipelines... Although optical character recognition (OCR) can tell us what text exists in a document, determinin...

How Infosys built a generative AI solution to process oil and gas drilling data with Amazon Bedrock

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These conventional (non-AI) processing approaches struggle with the unique characteristics of enterprise documents: highly technical terminology, complex multimodal data formats, and interconnected information spread across various document types... These documents, such as detailed well completion reports, drilling logs, and intricate lithology diagrams, contain crucial information that drives o...

The AWS Tech U survival guide

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What should you expect? How do you make the most of the next few months? This guide is for early-career professionals entering AWS Tech U or embarking on their own learning journey to pursue a career in cloud technology... It offers learning modules for both technical depth and professional skills... The program prioritizes technical creativity and real-world problem solving, facilitated by inst...