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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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abkolan 1 day ago|
The panic was real. We read about keys getting stolen all the time. Was about to nuke my set up too.
bknight1983 1 day ago||
I'm disappointed I only got a bill for $28M, need to work harder on burning money. Seriously though I thought my life flashed before me
danousna 1 day ago||
Yeah, small timers, I only got $4,4T. How will I finance this?
rodeduivel 1 day ago||
MMT!
marcosdumay 1 day ago||
Unfortunately, it's only Amazon that can issue bills backed by that debt, not the GP.
MichaelNolan 1 day ago||
$28m actually seems worse. If I wake to a $100b bill, that’s obviously a mistake. If I wake up to a bill in the millions then my first thought would be “oh no what did I do wrong, this will ruin my life”
whatever1 23 hours ago||
Is it even possible to audit the cloud pricing? They just give us a number and we pay.
sokoloff 23 hours ago|
On AWS, you can enable CUR (cost and usage reporting) and get detailed, line-item billing figures that you can audit.

And naturally, companies like Cloudability [now Apptio] and others have sprung up to do parts of this for you [at a fee, of course...]

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur...

I'm sure other cloud vendors have similar functionality (because they need this on the back end to do their own billing anyway).

hedora 1 day ago||
And to think the federal government claims inflation is in the single digits this year!
kumarski 21 hours ago||
You're not working hard enough if your AWS bill isn't $1.7B.
ninjin-carh 1 day ago||
I got 109 billion - am I the winner?
princetman 1 day ago||
Sorry mate, $241,946,798,744.75 for Glacier here.
nprateem 1 day ago||
Depends. Did you also get a free heart attack?
kubelsmieci 1 day ago||
This is real risk. Someone could really have a serious health problem.
durron 1 day ago||
$44 trillion over here, at least our bill was so outrageously high that I just laughed
lordleft 1 day ago||
Got a message that I owe 37 million on an account that I haven't used in probably...6 years?
jimbokun 1 day ago||
This is a strong argument to either self host or work really hard to be cloud agnostic.
MacCopper 1 day ago|
My Budget is 10$. The month forecasted cost associated with this budget is $182,278,249,263.06.

Even though I new they could not collect the whole amount, I wondered whether I was hacked. I closed the account, it was an old testing account anyways.

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