Why it matters
Most teams fly blind on coding-agent spend. This wires per-developer token and cost metrics into CloudWatch with no collector to run, so finance can see who burns tokens and where via attributes like user.id, team.id, and cost_center.
Tokenmaxxing read
Tokenmaxxing dies in the dark — you cannot cut spend you cannot see. At under $15/month to meter 200 engineers, observability is the cheapest lever before routing or caching. Slice claude_code.cost.usage by department to find the heavy seats, then ration.
Source takeaway
AWS's own walkthrough by Rodrigue Koffi, Gianluca Cacace, and Vadim Omeltchenko — recent (June 17). It assumes Bedrock-backed Claude Code; adapt metric names for other providers, and note CloudWatch retains these metrics for 15 months.
