alt Hacker NewsAWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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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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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.
It's okay. They are market leaders. And we use their services cause we can trust that they know what they are doing.
Yeah nearly had a heart attack this morning. Thought keys were leaked for a sec.
Heard of somebody who got 19 quadrillion dollars - I thought they meant Zimbabwean dollars
@dang could you merge these threads?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945233
OT: $286 million for me, almost had a heart attack
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.
You're not working hard enough if your AWS bill isn't $1.7B.
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.
THis is why I hate API/usage pricing
Need some money for a new Launchpad
Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.
Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
Only 1.7? I got $55B up from 41 cents.
I literally almost had a heart attack today.
They should have added "make no mistakes" to the prompt.
“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.
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...
Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.
hmm, if these estimates of Amazon profit for the next quarter are correct Bezos is set to become a trillionaire! Take that Musk!!
Me too, hello all. I've got 59 Million dollars in billing threshold reached email from AWS. And felt the same as others, and after half an hour of investigation I saw their message on top of the support page. I have 6 mb for static website stores in S3. No other resources.
Total forecasted cost for current month $477,000,039,440.24
Insane
Funny how these errors always go one direction.
I saw another post on reddit with something like a hundred trillion dollar bill. I wish I had saved that link to share it, the comments were quite comical!
I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
Is it even possible to audit the cloud pricing? They just give us a number and we pay.
I almost got a heart attack seeing a bill for 48B USD!
Our S3 bill for a single day was $48 trillion
I have $13,034.40, while not having used AWS for the last 8 months. Not as much but still crapped my pants
And to think the federal government claims inflation is in the single digits this year!
Well, no coffee needed this morning.
$103,515,940,301.79
The panic was real. We read about keys getting stolen all the time. Was about to nuke my set up too.
$44 trillion over here, at least our bill was so outrageously high that I just laughed
Does the affiliate program still work for AWS? When do I get my referral fee?
far out it's 10pm here and I was just about to sleep when my wife nugged me about a billing alert from AWS.
$151 billion the number for me.
Aw man I was hoping to punk my manager but our cost estimates are unaffected.
This is a strong argument to either self host or work really hard to be cloud agnostic.
"If you owe AWS a hundred thousand dollars, that's your problem. If you owe AWS three billion dollars, that's Amazon's problem."
Who else had LinkedIn posts about this flashing before your eyes?
My Budget is 10$. 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.
This is just Anthropic reaching out to their customers for help with their AWS bill.
Go turn off autopay now! For personal accounts anyway
Seems like a scam. Call your CC company and issue a chargeback :p
What an `effin disaster. The alert almost gave me a heart attack.
at $1.7 billion, that unit conversion error is now the most expensive TODO comment in software history
Our alert was for exceeding $300...by several hundred billion dollars.
Maybe this is a new strategy to scare people into finally locking down their old, unused AWS accounts. It sure worked for me!