Agent payments are the new cloud bill footgun (opens in new tab)

AWS has been previewing more AgentCore pieces, and one small phrase should make platform teams sit up a little straighter: managed payment capabilities for agents. Not just agents calling tools. Not just agents reading docs. Agents paying for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents as part of a workflow. That sounds like a product feature. It is also a very clean way to create the next cloud bill incident. And to be fair, this was always coming. If agents are supposed to do useful wo...