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Woke up to a billing alarm email. Thought I had leaked my AWS keys accidentally and somehow run up 437 billion dollars of charges. Joke's on them though, I don't have 437 billion dollars

Anyways I didn't need coffee. That produced an adrenaline release unlike any I've experienced before. Thanks AWS


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lijoktoday at 12:31 PM

If you owe AWS 437k bucks, that’s a big problem for you

If you owe AWS 437B bucks, that’s a big problem for AWS

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chrismarlow9today at 2:16 PM

Same story for $500 million. I was shaking so bad I couldn't type my password.

binaryturtletoday at 12:40 PM

I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that. There may be a person out there that may be dead as a result.

It's entirely irresponsible of Amazon to even display such values to the user.

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tcp_handshakertoday at 2:14 PM

Clearly the Agentic AI is running free on AWS. Matt does it again...what a success...

trial3today at 12:50 PM

huge irl laugh at “i don’t have 437 billion dollars”

logicalleetoday at 12:49 PM

Worth a shot to give them a call and explain that. They can probably adjust it down to 100 billion.

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