"A simple mistake led to a 2.6 billion won loss"... Amazon's AI adoption budget surges 860%

Amazon has uncovered multiple cost overruns in its internal generative AI projects.

One project using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet spent $1.8 million, or 860% over budget, and still failed.

With token-based pricing and expanding AI agents, even small mistakes can turn into major expenses, prompting Amazon to tighten cost controls.

The cases show that managing usage and billing is now as critical as model performance in enterprise AI adoption.