Agents can pay now. Your controls cannot.
AWS gave AI agents a way to spend money on their own. The payment was never the hard part. Approving, capping and auditing a non-human spender is, and most companies haven't built for it.
What one AI agent really costs, beyond the vendor invoice
The price on the vendor quote is a fraction of what a production agent costs. Here's the full bill, layer by layer, the unit that should replace cost-per-token, and where the maths breaks.