Amazon engineers revealed AI project budget overruns including an 860% cost blowout and $1.8M spent on an unshipped Claude Sonnet deployment.

Amazon flags AI project spending overruns as $200 billion capex plan collides with employee tool overuse and rising token costs, per the

Amazon’s internal metrics show AI running projects far over budget, including $1.8m on a Claude job that overshot 860% and failed. AWS sells the fix.