Macro Briefing: 16 January 2025

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China’s dominance of global manufacturing is stronger than ever ahead of President-elect Trump’s plans to impose higher tariffs... Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs also posted strong results...US consumer inflation sped up in December, rising 2... “When you step back and look at the overall state of inflation, we’re not really going anywhere,” says Sarah House, senior economist ...

Preventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objects

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At Amazon Web Services (AWS), the security of our customers’ data is our top priority, and it always will be... Working with customers, our security teams detected an increase of data encryption events in S3 that used an encryption method known as server-side encryption using client-provided keys (SSE-C)... While this is a feature used by many customers, we detected a pattern where a large numb...

HCLTech’s AWS powered AutoWise Companion: A seamless experience for informed automotive buyer decisions with data-driven design

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This post introduces HCLTech’s AutoWise Companion, a transformative generative AI solution designed to enhance customers’ vehicle purchasing journey... By tailoring recommendations based on individuals’ preferences, the solution guides customers toward the best vehicle model for them... In this post, we analyze the current industry challenges and guide readers through the AutoWise Companion...

Mitigating risk: AWS backbone network traffic prediction using GraphStorm

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The complex interdependencies between network components make it challenging to predict the full scope and timing of these potential impacts, necessitating advanced risk assessment and mitigation strategies... In this post, we show how you can use our enterprise graph machine learning (GML) framework GraphStorm to solve prediction challenges on large-scale complex networks inspired by our practi...

Innovating in line with the European Union’s AI Act 

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As our Microsoft AI Tour reached Brussels, Paris, and Berlin toward the end of last year, we met with European organizations that were energized by the possibilities of our latest AI technologies and engaged in deployment projects...  At Microsoft, we are ready to help our customers do two things at once: innovate with AI and comply with the EU AI Act... You can consult our EU AI Act docum...

Commodities Are The Upside Outlier So Far This Year

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January is shaping up to be a rough month for the major asset classes, with one exception: commodities... This unmanaged benchmark holds all the major asset classes (except cash) in market-value weights via the ETFs listed above and represents a competitive measure for multi-asset-class-portfolio strategies... In sharp relief, the rest of the field is mostly in the red, with the exception of one m...

Macro Briefing: 15 January 2025

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3% year-over-year level through December...9 billion, roughly $200 billion over the prior-year period... Policy-sensitive US 2-year Treasury yield trades at/near highest level since late-November ahead of today’s consumer inflation data for December...US producer price inflation increased to a 3... Meanwhile, Fed funds futures continue to price in high odds that the central bank will leave inter...