The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. It ran 860 per cent over budget, took five months to spot, and the deployment failed anyway. Amazon overspent on AI while its own cloud sells the exact tools to stop it. Anthropic’s Haiku costs a third of the Sonnet model Amazon reached for. The overspend came from picking the frontier model by default and leaving the guardrails off, exactly the mistake Amazon and Anthropic tell other companies to avoid.