AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

andystanton

A couple of relevant links: - AWS Status Page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status - Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_s...

csunbird

Just got a budget alert that I owe $286,486,223.88 on a hobby aws account, almost got a heart attack.

balintpeter

Yea, same here. $420M+ bill, when we have <10$ per month usually.

ninjin-carh

I got 109 billion - am I the winner?

mlitwiniuk

I was actually in the toilet when I got an email I owe them $36,869,876,146.51. I literally just shit myself.

meraku

Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.

pqvst

Probably the closest I've ever been to getting a heart attack. Normally <$1 per month, and now suddenly $284,006,266,443.74. Whatever the bug is on their end, this is unforgivable.

princetman

Mine is showing $241,946,798,744.75. I know it will be reverted, but for a brief minute there I suspected someone compromised my account and triggered rust rewrite of everything using thousands of agents via Bedrock :) Phew.

AegirLeet

Maybe this is a new strategy to scare people into finally locking down their old, unused AWS accounts. It sure worked for me!

tlovage

I got estimated costs of $56.something billions. Usually ~$100/month. My heart rate currently still sits at around 160 bpm. Motherfuckers.

rvz

I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.

lukaslueg

Apparently what used to be `GB of storage consumed` is confused with `Bytes of storage consumed`, leading to a cool off by 2*30 error. > You're right to question my calculation. The MCP server failed to connect when I tried to look up the field definition. I guessed instead of validating. This is on me. But look at all the revenue!

akerl_

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Looks like this is a bug w/ S3

realizer

$627,487,837,871.49 I might be a winner.

iamrik9

I feel much better after seeing the $B estimates here; I only have an estimate of $34M so far Folks can track it directly on AWS Health: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

rucury

Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.

zcemycl

Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.

TekMol

It was over $500k in the email I got. Not a fun experience. My hands were trembling. Makes you wonder - what if there really would be an incident where some massive amount of traffic got routed to your infrastructure by some heavyweight player? Say Wikipedia accidentally switches their IP to your CloudFront? Would you really be on the hook for $500k?

philipallstar

Maybe they're using too many humans and not enough AI in their software development. That must be it.

cmollis

yeah.. i just to a daily cost alert.. it was only 23 trillion dollars this month. i thought, hmm seems kind of high this month.