AI agents can turn a small cloud experiment into an expensive runaway workload before anyone notices. Hard budget caps, isolated projects, and agent-level limits create a safer default for autonomous software.
Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026, ending a nearly 21-year run for Amazon’s human-task marketplace. This guide explains the shutdown timeline and what workers, requesters, and machine-learning teams should prepare.
On July 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM PDT, AWS began displaying incorrect estimated billing data in the Billing and Cost Management Console; the root cause was incorrect unit pricing in the estimated billing computation subsystem. AWS paused estimated billing computations and recomputed estimates, expecting multi-hour recovery. ([blog.serverworks.co.jp](https://blog.serverworks.co.jp/aws-cost-billing-issue-