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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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
at $1.7 billion, that unit conversion error is now the most expensive TODO comment in software history
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!
Looks like you are the biggest shareholder. Well, going by the popular saying: “You own AWS now”.
Lucky. I’m on the hook for 54 billion (and change).
The new data centers are more expensive:
ACTUAL Amount: $1,046,294,123,330.95
The market *hates* this one weird trick to juice earnings
Some guy named Claude screwed up.
Nothing like generational debt to kick off a Friday morning
I had Hermes managing mine, and it made a partial prepayment to help smooth out the bump in my account balance. Unfortunately Billing Support say my $17.4B refund may take up to 10 calendar days to be processed.
It looks like AI is completely done.
To be exactly that guy:
This cannot happen if you do not do this renting at variable rates.
A thing you own doesn't suddenly bill you trillions of dollars in error. It doesn't hyperscale either, but neither do you.
it seems like these types of problems have gained frequency in the ai era, or is it just recency bias?
FinSlops.
Did it recover for you folks? I still see billions of dollars!
Have even seen a $9.2 trillion for a friend.
$250 billion. Nearly died right then and there
Amazon, the first quadrillion-dollar company.
I prefer to just pay...
I hope you have auto pay disabled
yeah the AI read billionaring instead of billing
vibe coding for the win.
I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.
I almost had a heart attack because of this. I was like, did I mess up my API management? Why didn't I just use Lightsail? Those were the thoughts running through my head.
My personal website is on Lightsail, but those alerts started popping up from some test services I had set up while I was studying AI. I swear my heart nearly stopped and I cried. I really think AWS should have spending limits in place.
My bank account barely has enough for next month's rent.
Yes seeing the same, so far no response from AWS support
This generation is too entitled! He should some learn responsibility by paying the full amount; otherwise Amazon should delete his services/data. Consequences!
VibeBilling, love it
Yea, same here. $420M+ bill, when we have <10$ per month usually.
Just got a call from the IMF president begging me to not default my debt with Amazon and offering me credit line and a plan to re-structure my debt so I don't create a global financial crisis with my default.
$627,487,837,871.49
I might be a winner.
do you see cost ever day for the month of July or just the last day? I also have billions of dollars in cost explorer
Vibe coded fix, resulted in many having multi billion bills. Claude really did it this time.
Wild.
The charge-back penalties are going to be hilarious and hopefully bankrupting.
> $5,544,640,717,404.09
This is what we received this morning
Thanks for sharing.
I’m currently dealing with Verizon Wireless and their “Jabronibot” claiming I have a fictional account balance due. It has been sent to collections, but still is being asked for by their legacy system.
The case studies of “Agents in Billing Departments” and potential shareholder lawsuits / E&O claims / reputational damage will be interesting to me. I worked in “risk management” products years ago and this kind of liability is not easily dollar traded away via contract. Will accountability stick to the Decision Makers or will they try to surrogate to the Service Providers? Hmm.
Yes I received an 2.8m USD budget alert.
I think I know how Bezos plans to pay for his Billion dollar AI costs.
In an .md file somewhere:
"NEVER represent currency with floating point, multiply by 100 and store in an int before doing any math"
131 billion for me
I just invested ALL my money into AMZN cause next earnings report will be FIRE :)
My personal photo backup S3 account, with a budget limit of $10, now going to cost me ....
$1,299,988,247,332.56!
That was a fun set of emails to wake up to, figured they had to be phishing for how outrageous of a number it was. But nope! Fun little incident they've got going over there.
Results of vibe coding and vibe configurations.
Imagine the chaos if, as people sometimes suggest should happen, AWS shut down running instances in accounts that exceeded a billing threshold..
Got a message that I owe 37 million on an account that I haven't used in probably...6 years?