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Posted by nprateem 1 day ago

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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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dvh 22 hours ago|
Prompt: bill our aws customers, make no mistakes.
vel0city 22 hours ago||
Prompt: investigate new ways to fund additional AI datacenters.
zengineer 22 hours ago||
or: Increase revenue!
Cthulhu_ 21 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.

ahme 17 hours ago||
Just pay it and move on. No need to cause a scene.
aweiland 23 hours ago||
Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
meraku 1 day ago||
Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.
Hamuko 1 day ago|
I went from 0.03€ to $8B.
sshine 1 day ago||
Not only did your cost spike, it changed currency and went from postfix to prefix!

I understand people complaining about large bills, but this is over the top!

tanseydavid 19 hours ago||
For anything below a Trillion, you should just take it out petty-cash. </sarc>

My sympathies -- I know I would be overcome with panic in such a situation.

pzh 15 hours ago||
Good news is you finally qualify for Enterprise Support and you've never been closer to a Series B.
reactordev 23 hours ago||
“Due to a rounding error” or a buffer overflow, you now owe INT_MAX to BaldGuyCloudService.

Yeah, this most certainly is bad code wrapping around a value. AWS will post a notice soon if they haven’t already.

nixgeek 19 hours ago||
Wow. As a side effect, this outage is handing Corey Quinn material for the next 4 years of AWS shitposting. No longer is NAT Gateway the prime target.
HarHarVeryFunny 22 hours ago|
They should have added "make no mistakes" to the prompt.
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