Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024

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For further information on hourly pricing and provisioned throughput in general, refer to the below articles: What is provisioned throughput? Azure OpenAI Service PricingWhat’s even more exciting is the potential for massive cost savings, that too using the savings instrument most of you are already familiar with—Reservations... For further details on how to purchase and manag...

Desperately Seeking Yield: 17 September 2024

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The beginning of the end for the current run of peak yields looks set to start tomorrow (Wed...The average yield for global assets is 3... Back in April, US Treasuries offered substantial yield premiums over the average payout rate for global risk assets... Today, however, the opportunity to lock in a higher yield with government bonds is starting to crack...  A 3-month T-bill yields sl...

Macro Briefing: 17 September 2024

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New York Fed Manufacturing Index indicates a strong rebound in business activity for September... “Inflation is now back down close to pre-pandemic levels, and that means the focus needs to be on safeguarding the gains — the important gains — we’ve made in the labor market,” observes White House National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard... The Federal Reserve last week reported that highe...

Improve RAG performance using Cohere Rerank

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RAG allows these AI applications to tap into external, reliable sources of domain-specific knowledge, enriching the context for the language model as it answers user queries... RAG is an approach that combines information retrieval techniques with natural language processing (NLP) to enhance the performance of text generation or language modeling tasks... The key idea is to incorporate external...

Methodology for incident response on generative AI workloads

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The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) has developed a methodology that you can use to investigate security incidents involving generative AI-based applications... To respond to security events related to a generative AI workload, you should still follow the guidance and principles outlined in the AWS Security Incident Response Guide... However, generative AI workloads require that you als...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more

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My Top 3 AWS news announcements of the week Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integrations is now generally available and it comes with exciting new features... You are now able to configure zero-ETL integrations in your AWS CloudFormation templates, and you also now have the ability to set up multiple integrations from a source Amazon RDS for MySQL database with up to five Amazon Redshift warehou...

Create security observability using generative AI with Security Lake and Amazon Q in QuickSight

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These same needs are shared by a variety of security stakeholders... For example, if security directors want to summarize their security posture in natural language, a security architect will need to triage alerts or findings and investigate AWS CloudTrail logs to identify high priority remediation actions or detect potential threat actors by identifying potentially malicious activity... Amazon ...