Book Bits: 31 October 2026

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Miriam Posner presents a blow-by-blow account of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, revealing how the system’s built-in ambiguity shields companies from accountability while exploiting workers... Drawing on more than a decade of research, Posner shows how computation converged with the growth of global trade to allow for a lightning-quick, astoundingly ef...

Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams

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Many teams start by comparing per-model token rates and asking application teams to shorten prompts... A conversational assistant typically issues one model invocation per user turn... Published averages are a poor substitute for your own numbers: use the AWS Pricing Calculator and the Amazon Bedrock pricing page to model rates, and use Step 2 of this post to measure what your workloads actually ...

Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

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Coding agents now build working web apps: a dashboard, a product page, a prototype that a product team wants to try... That loop works well when the app keeps running where the agent edits it, so each change shows up in the browser within seconds... Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with your choice of agent framework and foundation model (FM)...

How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock

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Worldwide Express (part of ShipStation Global) had built something big: approximately $5 billion in systemwide revenue, over 75 less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers and more than 130,000 customers... Each one had to be chased down by hand, carrier by carrier, with its own rules to check... Worldwide Express outsourced to a team that worked cases one at a time, calling customers and carriers for each...

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

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allowed_login_methods = ["api"] allowed_sandbox_modes = ["read-only", "workspace-write"] allowed_approvals_reviewers = ["user"] allowed_approval_policies = [ { granular = { sandbox_approval = false, rules = true, mcp_elicitations = false, request_permissions = false, skill_approval = true } }, ] allowed_web_search_modes = ["disabled", "cached"] allow_browser_and_computer_use = false allow_app...

Aligning AWS security capabilities with standards and security frameworks for the Betting and Gaming industry – Part 1

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The most widely referenced GLI standards for this industry are GLI-19 (Interactive Gaming Systems) and GLI-33 (Event Wagering Systems), establishing technical benchmarks for platform security, data integrity, player protection, and operational transparency... For customers, the challenge isn’t whether to implement robust security, but how to do so efficiently using AWS services... This blog po...

Aligning AWS security capabilities with standards and security frameworks for the Betting and Gaming industry – Part 2

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In Part 1 of this series, we described how AWS security best practices, using the AWS Security Improvement Program (SIP) and the Security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, can help Betting and Gaming operators strengthen foundational cloud security, covering information security, identity and access management, audit and logging, network security, and multi-account strategy... The AWS ...