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Slope chart showing Kiro credit multiplier changes for GPT-5.6 models. Sol stays flat at 2.4x, Terra drops from 1.2x to 1.0x, Luna drops from 0.6x to 0.1x. GPT-5.6 Kiro price performance.

GPT-5.6 lands in Kiro: what the 82% cost cut really means

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna land in AWS Kiro. OpenAI and AWS report 82% lower task costs on Terminal-Bench 2.1, but the number measures cost, not accuracy.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 25, 2026

A stacked bar chart showing AWS cost breakdown: EC2 at 38 percent, data transfer at 18 percent, RDS at 15 percent, S3 at 12 percent, Lambda at 8 percent, and other services at 9 percent.

FinOps

AWS FinOps: the cost levers that actually move the needle

Five AWS services drive 80 percent of spend. Rightsizing, commitment discounts and storage tiering pull hardest, and the FinOps Agent automates the triage.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 11, 2026

Amazon data centers WUE compared with Amazon at 0.12 L/kWh, Microsoft at 0.27 L/kWh, and the industry average at 0.84 L/kWh.

AI

Amazon data centers put 2.5B gallons on the AI bill

Amazon data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025. Treat that disclosure as a roadmap risk for AI products.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 12, 2026