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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION

16 points5 hours

URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is < $5.

Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket. Anyone else seeing something like this?

Update: Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_skyrocketed_from_around_5_cents_per/

philipallstar4 hours ago

Maybe they're using too many humans and not enough AI in their software development. That must be it.

cyanydeez4 hours ago

AWS has become the uber employer: before AWS, you just had regular employers steeling employee wages bit by bit by forcing work, skipping breaks, etc.

All hail the new generations of our uberployers.

pqvst5 hours ago

Probably the closest I've ever been to getting a heart attack. Normally <$1 per month, and now suddenly $284,006,266,443.74. Whatever the bug is on their end, this is unforgivable.

zengineer5 hours ago

Same - just had some malicious bots running through my platform last week and really thought they found a security hole after all. Even though the amount sounded ridicoulus, I got quite nervous and a very bad feeling when I logged-in AWS and saw that price.

iamrik94 hours ago

I feel much better after seeing the $B estimates here; I only have an estimate of $34M so far

Folks can track it directly on AWS Health: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

lukaslueg5 hours ago

Apparently what used to be `GB of storage consumed` is confused with `Bytes of storage consumed`, leading to a cool off by 2*30 error.

> You're right to question my calculation. The MCP server failed to connect when I tried to look up the field definition. I guessed instead of validating. This is on me. But look at all the revenue!

zcemycl4 hours ago

Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.

ninjin-carh5 hours ago

I got 109 billion - am I the winner?

princetman5 hours ago

Sorry mate, $241,946,798,744.75 for Glacier here.

nprateem5 hours ago

Depends. Did you also get a free heart attack?

meraku5 hours ago

Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.

Hamuko4 hours ago

I went from 0.03€ to $8B.

rucury4 hours ago

Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.

Hamuko4 hours ago

I hope they send out some free credits at least. I imagine quite a few people got a real fucking scare today. They haven't even sent out any corrections yet.

rvz5 hours ago

I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.

realizer4 hours ago

$627,487,837,871.49

I might be a winner.

balintpeter5 hours ago

Yea, same here. $420M+ bill, when we have <10$ per month usually.

tlovage5 hours ago

I got estimated costs of $56.something billions. Usually ~$100/month. My heart rate currently still sits at around 160 bpm. Motherfuckers.

endless_smash4 hours ago

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