What the Latest AI Cost Disasters Are Teaching FinOps Teams — 5 Lessons From the Trenches

A $30,000 surprise that was supposed to be impossible In April 2026, an AWS customer ran a few experiments on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic Claude models. They had done the responsible thing before turning anything on: set up AWS Cost Anomaly Detection with a sensible threshold — alert on any service that spikes ≥$100 and ≥40% — and pointed it at “AWS Services.”