AWS on agent spending limits: demo wallet held $1M but agent session budget was 15 cents
schwentker · x · 2026-09-24
- At a Stripe developer meetup, AWS's Chethan Shriyan explained agent spending limits: "It's enforced at the infra layer."
- In a live demo, Hasan Tariq's testnet wallet held nearly $1M, yet the agent's session budget was just 15 cents — the key point being that wallet balance is not spending permission, and agent payments need permission isolation at the infrastructure layer.
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