Summary
A user received a nearly $38,000 AWS Bedrock bill due to a prompt caching miss during a standard coding-agent workflow utilizing Claude Opus. This incident highlights a critical lack of hard safety rails and reliable caching mechanisms in metered AI infrastructure, leading to unexpected and substantial costs. The user assumed caching was active across the entire service chain, exposing a significant vulnerability for developers using similar AI services.
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