Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix

Amazon experienced significant cost overruns on AI projects using Anthropic's Claude, including a $1.8 million budget overshoot on a failed author-product matching task. These overruns stemmed from misconfigurations causing continuous, unnoticed billing over months. Despite these issues, Amazon's AWS offers tools designed to reduce such costs, highlighting a gap between internal practices and available solutions.