AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Posted by nprateem 22 hours ago

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_s...

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galoisscobi 16 hours ago|

I just deleted my aws account. I don't need these vibes in my life.

sailfast 19 hours ago||

Who is going to compensate us for the years taken off our lives when we received the alerts?

salamo 14 hours ago||

$1.7 billion is small potatoes. My bill is over $155 billion and growing. I'm worried if the trend continues I'll have depleted my rainy day fund.

tyrelb 14 hours ago|

I was at $5 trillion, on the way to $9 trillion!

mjmasn 18 hours ago||

It's a good job it was off by such a large amount, or I might have panicked instead of writing it off as a phishing attempt. I had an email saying my $7.50 budget had been exceeded with an actual cost of $3bn.

boesboes 17 hours ago||

I seem to have spend >35trilion on rds today, sooo yeah, going great at AWS

hoppp 13 hours ago||

This is the second time I hear about this. I am happy my credit card linked to AWS expired. Just in-case my usual $0.00 ends up 100 million

mawadev 16 hours ago||

This is just the cloud area, what if Amazon starts vibe charging regular customers because of some bug? Accounts that are directly linked with regular people's payment methods?

gioazzi 20 hours ago||

Heard of somebody who got 19 quadrillion dollars - I thought they meant Zimbabwean dollars

elashri 19 hours ago||

one USD is about 362 Zimbabwean dollars. So it would still be about ~53 trillion dollars which is more than the nominal GDP of US and China combined.

Polizeiposaune 19 hours ago||

For history here, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe redenominated its currency three times in 2006, 2008, and 2009, dropping a total of 25 trailing zeros in the process. the 4th Zimbabwean dollar in 2009 was worth 10^25 of the first zimbabwean dollar.

Waterluvian 19 hours ago||

That would have been a great deal!

Group_B 19 hours ago|

Yeah nearly had a heart attack this morning. Thought keys were leaked for a sec.

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