Macro Briefing: 23 May 2024

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* China launches military drills around Taiwan after inauguration of new president * Fed minutes show concern over lack of progress on inflation * Eurozone economic recovery strengthens for third straight month in May * China may raise tariffs on vehicle imports up to 25% * Business inflation expectations unchanged at 2......

Generating fashion product descriptions by fine-tuning a vision-language model with SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock

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With the advancement of Generative AI, we can use vision-language models (VLMs) to predict product attributes directly from images... Pre-trained image captioning or visual question answering (VQA) models perform well on describing every-day images but can’t to capture the domain-specific nuances of ecommerce products needed to achieve satisfactory performance in all product categories... Ama...

Spring 2024 SOC reports 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 over 10 years of experience in security assurance... He leads multiple security, compliance, and training initiatives within AWS... He has over 12 years of exp...

US Economy Still On Track For Modest Pickup In Growth For Q2

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US economic activity is expected to post a modestly firmer increase in the second-quarter, based on the median estimate for a set of nowcasts compiled by CapitalSpectator... More than half of the quarter’s data sets have yet to be published, but the early clues continue to skew positive... If the median Q2 nowcast is correct, the economy will post its first improvement over the previous quarter ...

How to implement single-user secret rotation using Amazon RDS admin credentials

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In create_secret() The following code suggestion removes the creation of _clone-suffixed usernames... Remove: -- # Get the alternate username swapping between the original user and the user with _clone appended to it -- current_dict['username'] = get_alt_username(current_dict['username']) In set_secret() The following code suggestions remove the creation of _clone-suffixed usernames ...

Create a multimodal assistant with advanced RAG and Amazon Bedrock

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It combines text, table, and image (including chart) data into a unified vector representation, enabling cross-modal understanding and retrieval... The process begins with diverse data extractions from various sources such as URLs and PDF files by parsing and preprocessing text, table, and image data types separately, while table data is converted into raw text and image data into captions... Th...

How 20 Minutes empowers journalists and boosts audience engagement with generative AI on Amazon Bedrock

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To implement these use cases, we rely on Amazon Bedrock... Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, ...