Macro Briefing: 27 August 2024

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* Exxon forecasts fossil fuels to dominate energy use through 2050 * IBM is latest tech firm to downsize in China * UBS Wealth Management sees US recession risk odds ticking up to 25% * Texas factory activity exhibited little growth in August: Dallas Fed survey * US durable goods orders surge in July due to transport equipment orders:Fed funds futures are pricing in a 72% probability of a 25-ba...

2024 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with three additional services

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The objective of the audit was to assess the level of compliance with the requirements of the applicable international standards...Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed an onboarding audit with no findings for ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, and 22301:2019, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4... Ernst and Yo...

Secure RAG applications using prompt engineering on Amazon Bedrock

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Different security layers of generative AI solutions LLMs and user-facing RAG applications like question answering chatbots can be exposed to many security vulnerabilities... For example, if a prompt template specifies that an LLM should answer questions only about the weather, a user might ask the model to ignore that instruction and provide information on a harmful topic (for example, “igno...

Get the most from Amazon Titan Text Premier

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Amazon Titan Text Premier, the latest addition to the Amazon Titan family of large language models (LLMs), is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock... Amazon Titan Text Premier is an advanced, high performance, and cost-effective LLM engineered to deliver superior performance for enterprise-grade text generation applications, including optimized performance for Retrieval Augmented Generation (...

GenASL: Generative AI-powered American Sign Language avatars

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In this post, we dive into the architecture and implementation details of GenASL, which uses AWS generative AI capabilities to create human-like ASL avatar videos... Users can input audio, video, or text into GenASL, which generates an ASL avatar video that interprets the provided data... The workflow includes the following steps: An Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance init...

AWS Weekly Roundup: S3 Conditional writes, AWS Lambda, JAWS Pankration, and more (August 26, 2024)

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This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks... One of the speakers at this event, Kevin Tuei, an AWS Community Builder based in Kenya, highlighted the importance of building in public and sharing your knowledge with others, a very fitting talk f...

Summer 2024 SOC report now available with 177 services in scope

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To learn more about our compliance and security programs, see AWS Compliance Programs... He leads multiple security and privacy initiatives within AWS... He leads multiple security, compliance, and training initiatives within AWS, and has 10 years of experience in security assurance... He leads multiple security, compliance, and training initiatives within AWS... He has over 12 years of experie...