AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Posted by nprateem 14 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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AngryKitten 11 hours ago|

You folks are completely irresponsible with your finances. I only spent $2.4 million last night. You've got to learn to manage your money.

Cthulhu_ 10 hours ago|

Yeah, buy less cappuchinos and avocado toast so you can pay your AWS bills people!

elondaits 11 hours ago||

Woke up to a 100 billion dollars in S3, which is above the USD 4 alarm threshold I had set (I pay $0.55 monthly) . Some AI decided to prune the most impressionable of us.

jwik 13 hours ago||

Yes, there is a known issue with cost estimation.

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

mysterydip 12 hours ago||

Bit of an understatement: “The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges.”

Xunjin 9 hours ago||

"There are no customer actions required at this time."

Of course, you provided heart stress failure tests for free.

AngryKitten 11 hours ago|||

Whatever you do, AWS, don't post a related service health alert site wide on the console. Heck, don't even post one in the billing module. We wouldn't want to overdo the alerts, especially when we already have one being displayed to market the new FinOps Agent in Public Preview.

mstolpm 13 hours ago||

Thank you. Have seen this after I posted.

coffee_is_nom 11 hours ago||

Thanks, I panicked logged in and could not find the root cause of the bill.

Thanks AWS, no caffeine needed this morning!

pcarmichael 13 hours ago||

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

"Operational issue - AWS Billing Console (Global) Service - AWS Billing Console Severity Impacted - Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"

Polizeiposaune 8 hours ago|

Update as of 7:53am PDT:

"The rollback of a recent change did not resolve the issue and we are continuing to investigate multiple mitigation paths. Estimated bill updates remain paused."

masafej536 7 hours ago||

>Estimated bill updates remain paused

Wait what if someones actually getting usage spiked

vntok 6 hours ago||

Hackers rejoice!

_ache_ 1 hour ago||

And them, ... actually not an error. Server costs went up with AI needs, you know. The AWS incident is about inaccuracy, not "absurd values".

You gotta catch-up or die.

mrtksn 12 hours ago||

Wow, those price increases due to the RAM and storage shortages AI caused are brutal.

jumperabg 12 hours ago|

Most likely they also forgot to include "make no mistakes" instructions to their in-house LLM that deploys to production.

HugoTea 8 hours ago||

Rookie mistake

pfshort 12 hours ago||

117 billion us dollars. Eat that GDP of Kuwait! But yes I have never scrambled so hard to try to get on the phone with someone at AWS in my life. Terrifying 10 minutes until I found that banner on the support page. It should be front and center on the dash, not hidden away. And in yellow.

bradhe 8 hours ago||

Current month $13,648,114,178,401.01 188,253,226,212%

Forecasted month end $18,729,381,032,152.4

Apparently my company owes the combined GDP of France, Germany, and UK to AWs.

xp84 8 hours ago|

"Have you considered using Reserved Instances? You could save up to 2 trillion dollars next month. Book a call with your AWS rep."

xrd 7 hours ago||

Stop bragging, The Onion already reported on a one man company who is $1B in debt.

"CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YERfTT4McsU

dgrin91 10 hours ago|

Mine was 10 trillion today. At first I thought it was a lot, but then I realized its still smaller than the US national debt, so it cant be that bad.

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