Macro Briefing: 07 February 2025

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US jobless claims edged up last week, but remain low... The latest report suggests the labor market will continue to expand at a solid pace... An indicator that estimates the potential for a spike in the VIX Index currently shows roughly 50/50 odds that this “fear gauge” of the stock market will jump sharply higher... US productivity slowed in the fourth quarter while unit-labor costs, a key m...

2024 PiTuKri ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 services in scope

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the issuance of the Criteria to Assess the Information Security of Cloud Services (PiTuKri) Type II attestation report with 179 services in scope... The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) Cyber Security Centre published PiTuKri, which consists of 52 criteria that provide guidance across 11 domains for assessing the security of c...

2024 FINMA ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 services in scope

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the issuance of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) Type II attestation report with 179 services in scope... The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has published several requirements and guidelines about engaging with outsourced services for the regulated financial services customers in Switzerland... An inde...

Fine-tune and host SDXL models cost-effectively with AWS Inferentia2

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1 model at scale using Amazon SageMaker, this post takes the journey a step further... As technology continues to evolve, newer models are emerging, offering higher quality, increased flexibility, and faster image generation capabilities... One such groundbreaking model is Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), released by StabilityAI, advancing the text-to-image generative AI technology to unprecedented hei...

How Aetion is using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock to translate scientific intent to results

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This post is co-written with Javier Beltrán, Ornela Xhelili, and Prasidh Chhabri from Aetion... Aetion is a leading provider of decision-grade real-world evidence software to biopharma, payors, and regulatory agencies... At the core of the Aetion Evidence Platform (AEP) are Measures—logical building blocks used to flexibly capture complex patient variables, enabling scientists to customize th...

Amazon GameLift achieves 100 million concurrently connected users per game

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The test also showcased how Amazon GameLift can add 100,000 players to a game each second and spin up more than 9,000 new compute instances each minute... On launch days, those efforts are put to the ultimate test as players flood the system, but developers don’t necessarily know how many players to expect... What developers do know is that the backend infrastructure supporting incoming traffic...

Risk-On Sentiment Endures, Despite Trade Uncertainty

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For a big-picture perspective consider the ratio for an aggressive global asset allocation mix (AOA) vs...The to-and-fro is more pronounced when focusing on US stocks, but the ratio of the broad market-cap-weighted market portfolio (SPY) vs... The ratio for VTI (a proxy for the total US equities market) vs... The IEF:SHY ratio, after a brief reprieve, remains negative... Perhaps the p...