Macro Briefing: 21 November 2024

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Business inflation expectations in November remained “relatively unchanged at 2... The bank’s latest poll shows inflation expectations holding near the lowest level in 3-1/2 years... But… Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin says the US is becoming more vulnerable to inflationary shocks... “We’re somewhat more vulnerable to cost shocks on the inflation side, whether they...

Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications

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I’m happy to introduce the release of Amazon CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a new feature that enables content delivery from applications hosted in private subnets within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)... This makes it easy to secure web applications, allowing you to focus on growing your businesses while improving security and maintaining high-performance and g...

Level up game development insights at AWS re:Invent 2024

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The countdown to AWS re:Invent 2024 is on, with the annual five-day event set to kick off in Las Vegas, NV on Monday, December 2, 2024... Attendees can check out an expo floor packed with technology demonstrations, customer and partner sessions, gamified learning events, and more... The event will also present ample networking opportunities like the Visionaries in the Stadium kick-off event on ...

Unify structured data in Amazon Aurora and unstructured data in Amazon S3 for insights using Amazon Q

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In this solution, we use Amazon Q to build a comprehensive knowledge base that combines sales-related data from an Aurora MySQL database and sales documents stored in an S3 bucket... This custom knowledge base that connects these diverse data sources enables Amazon Q to seamlessly respond to a wide range of sales-related questions using the chat interface... Set up an Aurora MySQL database Com...

Automate Q&A email responses with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

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The extensive knowledge required can make it overwhelming to respond to email inquiries manually... Using generative AI allows businesses to improve accuracy and efficiency in email management and automation... In this post, we illustrate automating the responses to email inquiries by using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), both fully managed services....

Streamline RAG applications with intelligent metadata filtering using Amazon Bedrock

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One effective way to improve context relevance is through metadata filtering, which allows you to refine search results by pre-filtering the vector store based on custom metadata attributes... By narrowing down the search space to the most relevant documents or chunks, metadata filtering reduces noise and irrelevant information, enabling the LLM to focus on the most relevant content... In some ...

Is Fed Policy Still Too Tight?

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But waiting for clear signs could risk the Fed’s success to date in taming inflation without damaging economic growth...For perspective, let’s start with a simple overview of how current policy compares with headline consumer inflation plus unemployment, which together can be used as a proxy for the central bank’s dual mandate for minimizing inflation and maximizing employment...T...