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The $50K Runaway Agent: What Cloud Cost Explosions Reveal About Agent Rate-Limiting and Budget Enforcement

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Google Mandiant's latest enterprise AI security report documents a single runaway agent that racked up a $50,000 cloud bill. The incident is not an outlier. It exposes a deployment blocker: most agentic systems lack the cost containment plumbing needed for production. Agents that loop on tool calls…

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  1. 2026-10-06 00:08 · DEV Community — AI
    The $50K Runaway Agent: What Cloud Cost Explosions Reveal About Agent Rate-Limiting and Budget Enforcement

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