Macro Briefing: 26 September 2024

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” Will China’s recent stimulus packages revive China’s slowing economy? Some analysts have their doubts, Time reports... “This is a step in the right direction,” writes Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China Economics at Capital Economics, in a research note...” Dinny McMahon, head of China markets research at Trivium China policy research group, notes: “This isn’t a stimulus packag...

Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances

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Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances... C8g instances are AWS Graviton4 based and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving... Also ...

Llama 3.2 models from Meta are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

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2 models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart...2 offers multi-modal vision and lightweight models representing Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs), providing enhanced capabilities and broader applicability across various use cases... With a focus on responsible innovation and system-level safety, these new models demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of indust...

Vision use cases with Llama 3.2 11B and 90B models from Meta

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2 models are a collection of state-of-the-art pre-trained and instruct fine-tuned generative AI models that come in various sizes—in lightweight text-only 1B and 3B parameter models suitable for edge devices, to small and medium-sized 11B and 90B parameter models capable of sophisticated reasoning tasks, including multimodal support for high-resolution images... The vision-based use cases that w...

Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models

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1 models in Amazon Bedrock...2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock...2 offers multimodal vision and lightweight models representing Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs) and providing enhanced capabilities and broader applicability across various use cases... With a focus on responsible innovation and system-level safety, these new models demonstrate state-of-the-art performan...

Managing identity source transition for AWS IAM Identity Center

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Users and groups backup and restore aren’t covered because they depend heavily on the format of the source and target IdPs... Figure 2: APIs used for backing up assignments Step 2: Restore and validate the backed-up users and groups in the target identity source The target will become the new authoritative identity source... If the target is an IAM Identity Center directory, use...

Run VCF private clouds in Azure VMware Solution with support for portable VCF subscriptions

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As customers evaluate the future of their VMware environments, many choose to stop managing on-premises infrastructure and shift to a cloud platform that will support the agility and innovation needed to meet their needs for years to come...Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a fast and easy way to seamlessly migrate VMware-based workloads to Azure, using familiar VMware tools and ski...