#ai-operations

Strands' BedrockModel ships with prompt caching off. Two kwargs turn it on, one per-model gotcha catches you, and a 10-turn driver measures 99.9% / 99.8% hit ratios on Nova Pro and Sonnet 4.6 against an 8,156-token production system prefix. The per-call usage block proves it in seconds, not waiting on CloudWatch.

Three findings from a real customer engagement on AWS Bedrock — what a load test was actually doing, why p95 latency was 45 seconds, and the prompt-caching default that costs every team money. Plus the three CloudWatch metrics that catch all three.