alt Hacker NewsAWS: 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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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...
AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.
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
My guess is that it's because of some vibe-coding stuff! We are using LLMs to write code, validate code and test the code ! What can go wrong ?
somewhere a junior dev at AWS just learned their billing dashboard has been off by a factor of a billion and is currently having the worst shower of their career
$1.7 billion is small potatoes. My bill is over $155 billion and growing. I'm worried if the trend continues I'll have depleted my rainy day fund.
Just pay it and move on. No need to cause a scene.
THis is why I hate API/usage pricing
Need some money for a new Launchpad
Just got a budget alert that I owe $286,486,223.88 on a hobby aws account, almost got a heart attack.
Are you sure it’s a bug ?
The crypto network you hosted should pay for itself in 10-20 years just like LLMs. Don’t worry. Consider Bank of America until then if you are good on credit score.
Lol, Friday deployment is a bad omen even with LLM. Some things are just unchangeable facts of life.
If AWS was a predatory mobile gacha game, we'd get 300 apology gems as credit to our accounts for this mixup, to help us in our rolls for the next 3-letter acronym they release.
Do the right thing for the players, Matt!
I just deleted my aws account. I don't need these vibes in my life.
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.
Should have used Fable.
Yes, an incident is ongoing https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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?
You're not working hard enough if your AWS bill isn't $1.7B.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Looks like this is a bug w/ S3
It's a good job it was off by such a large amount, or I might have panicked instead of writing it off as a phishing attempt. I had an email saying my $7.50 budget had been exceeded with an actual cost of $3bn.
It's okay. They are market leaders. And we use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.
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.
My first thought was "Oh hell, who left the NAT Gateway on?"
I am running a niche SaaS with around 20 users per day on AWS.
I too was shocked when I saw the $1.7billion bill, instead of the usual $1.5billion.
Funny how these errors always go one direction.
Only 1.7? I got $55B up from 41 cents.
I literally almost had a heart attack today.
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.
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.
Maybe this is a new strategy to scare people into finally locking down their old, unused AWS accounts. It sure worked for me!
Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.
Our S3 bill for a single day was $48 trillion
Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
I almost got a heart attack seeing a bill for 48B USD!
In my 30s, I almost had a heart attack too. I got a notification saying that my cost budget had been increased to one million dollars...
hmm, if these estimates of Amazon profit for the next quarter are correct Bezos is set to become a trillionaire! Take that Musk!!
Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.
Total forecasted cost for current month $477,000,039,440.24
Insane
“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.
Is it even possible to audit the cloud pricing? They just give us a number and we pay.
I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
And to think the federal government claims inflation is in the single digits this year!
at $1.7 billion, that unit conversion error is now the most expensive TODO comment in software history
I have $13,034.40, while not having used AWS for the last 8 months. Not as much but still crapped my pants
I made something that tries to highlight the humor regarding this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950534