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lelandfetoday at 3:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

This just hit global news: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-we...

> Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch


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euio757today at 4:12 PM

> One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

That sucks, some people will get legit panic attacks and worse over this, especially for the smaller, more believable numbers in the 50k-500k range.

Hope they recover and sue for medical bill costs, emotional damage etc.

And like one reddit user suggests, everyone affected should write to their representative about hard billing caps protections

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dlev_pikatoday at 4:55 PM

1.5 trillion? Those are rookie numbers.

How about $5,544,640,717,404.09?

That was in my inbox this morning lmao