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Per-Agent Cost Tracking for Multi-Agent AI on AWS
Community description: I spent a week adding per-agent cost tracing to a multi-agent AWS Bedrock and Strands crew. It returned a perfect answer, showed 200 OK, and still billed ~1.4x. Here is how to catch that silent waste, read-only and at $0.
Dev.to | Sep 23, 2026 | Sarvar Nadaf
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Agent observability is the same trace structure carrying agent-specific attributes: cycle count, tokens, cost, and which agent owned the step. The Cost Analyst trace: three Cost Explorer tool spans nested under the agent, each with its real read duration and the agent's own per-agent cost. Can AWS Cost Explorer show per-agent cost by itself?
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