AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Posted by nprateem 1 day 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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gioazzi 21 hours ago|

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

elashri 20 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 20 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 20 hours ago||

That would have been a great deal!

mawadev 17 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?

hoppp 15 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

Group_B 20 hours ago||

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

cma256 18 hours ago||

In moments like these I'm reminded of all the people who have committed suicide due to billing errors. This is completely unacceptable. These sorts of errors must _never_ happen.

rcleveng 19 hours ago||

My first thought was "Oh hell, who left the NAT Gateway on?"

abkolan 21 hours ago||

Will wait for the RCA, the update says that they will resort to last known estimate as of 15 July. I’m guessing that would imply that the bug is at a lower level, write or an ingestion path.

ahme 15 hours ago||

Just pay it and move on. No need to cause a scene.

dvh 21 hours ago|

Prompt: bill our aws customers, make no mistakes.

vel0city 20 hours ago||

Prompt: investigate new ways to fund additional AI datacenters.

zengineer 21 hours ago||

or: Increase revenue!

Cthulhu_ 20 hours ago||

I mean just overcharging is one approach to achieving that goal I suppose.

But so is imprisoning or exterminating all humans for their own good, as most AI dystopias end up as.

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