AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS BuilderCards at re:Invent 2024, AWS Community Day, Amazon Bedrock, vector databases, and more (Nov 18, 2024)

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This week, we wrapped up the final 2024 Latin America Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Days of the year in Brazil, with multiple parallel events taking place... Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon... Amazon invests $110 million to support AI research at universities using Trainium chips... Amazon EventBridge announces up to 94% improvement in end-to-end latency for Event Buses...

Threat modeling your generative AI workload to evaluate security risk

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In this blog post, we’ll revisit the key steps for conducting effective threat modeling on generative AI workloads, along with additional best practices and examples, including some typical deliverables and outcomes you should look for across each stage... Threat Composer is an open source AWS tool you can use to document your threat model, available at no additional cost... This post covers a...

Slower Growth Expected For The US Economy In Q4

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For the moment, the so-called soft-landing scenario for the economy remains intact... “We are rapidly moving from the era of the Goldilocks soft landing consensus on Wall Street toward splitting into two camps: the ‘no landing’ crowd and the ‘buckle your seatbelts, bumpy landing’ crowd,” advises Scott Anderson, chief U...“We are in the soft landing,” Nobel prize-winning...

Book Bits: 16 November 2024

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By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content...) Anthony Scaramucci and Michael Novogratz Summary via publisher (Wiley) In the newly updated The Little Book of Hedge Funds by celebrated financier Anthony Scaramucci, you’ll find a crucial roadmap through the intricate world of hedge funds in the aftermath of significant financial shifts......

Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview)

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Today, we’re announcing the availability, in preview, of a new capability in Amazon Data Firehose that captures changes made in databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and replicates the updates to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)... This new capability provides a simple, end-to-end solution to stream database updates without impacting transaction performance of...

Considerations for addressing the core dimensions of responsible AI for Amazon Bedrock applications

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Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI... Addressing model toxicity with Amazon Bedrock...

Secure by Design: AWS enhances centralized security controls as MFA requirements expand

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At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’ve built our services with secure by design principles from day one, including features that set a high bar for our customers’ default security posture... Today, we’re sharing progress from the past year since we first announced that we would require customers to improve their default security posture by requiring the use of MFA for root users in the AWS Mana...