Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
Summary
The article explains how Amazon replaced Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider, a decision-model approach, in a large internal ticketing system, achieving a 98% cost reduction. It covers the deployment architecture (SageMaker, Lambda, SQS, AppConfig) and the three-way switch that controls labeling paths, with lessons on when a decision model can replace an LLM and the cost implications for high-volume tasks.