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96•mstolpm•2h ago•49 comments

Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

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Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

79•mirzap•2h ago
This has to be a bug. My usual monthly S3 bill is only $2–3. Has anyone else received a strange billing estimate today?

https://prnt.sc/UqjcYD3RSQrS

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pcarmichael•2h ago
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

"Operational issue - AWS Billing Console (Global) Service - AWS Billing Console Severity Impacted - Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"

Sheepzez•2h ago
Yes, I've got an estimated bill of $4bn. Probably related to the ongoing "Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data" incident?

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

cifvts•2h ago
Yes, an incident is ongoing https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
dirkk0•1h ago
same here, I am still in shock. took me 10 minutes to find the 'operational issue' message in the dashboard. longest 10 minutes of my life.
charles_f•1h ago
Can you not set spending limits in AWS?
reformd•1h ago
he did, 140 billion :D
inigyou•1h ago
No you can't. Spending limits imply realtime billing backend flows and they also imply deleting all your data so that you don't pay for storage.
handoflixue•5m ago
Realtime billing seems entirely within the abilities of AWS.

"Limits except for Storage" seems even easier - I don't think I've ever heard of a storage-based billing story, although I'm sure one or two exist

boristsr•1h ago
No, alerts but not limits.
masafej536•1h ago
If you owe AWS 140B dollars its their problem ;)
throwaway_5753•1h ago
Should have used Fable.
cyanydeez•1h ago
someones been dognfooding the AI too muxh
sankalpmukim•1h ago
AWS pushed the wishful thinking internal calculator to production.
glenstein•1h ago
Probably the safest bet is to pay your bill in full to stay in good standing and then get refunded the difference when they revise it down.
NordStreamYacht•1h ago
With interest, of course.
bknight1983•1h ago
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
danousna•1h ago
Yeah, small timers, I only got $4,4T. How will I finance this?
rodeduivel•1h ago
MMT!
MichaelNolan•55m ago
$28m actually seems worse. If I wake to a $100b bill, that’s obviously a mistake. If I wake up to a bill in the millions then my first thought would be “oh no what did I do wrong, this will ruin my life”
kylecazar•1h ago
You didn't have savings opportunities enabled
port3000•1h ago
Rookie error
port3000•1h ago
They have to pay for that AI Capex buildout somehow
djantje•1h ago
I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
pelagicAustral•1h ago
Imagine it not being a bug...
Sebb767•1h ago
As the famous saying goes: If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
RGamma•1h ago
Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!
speedgoose•1h ago
Time to become a shepherd in some remote mountains.
tgv•1h ago
Mine was a mere $49B. Fucking idiots.
atmosx•1h ago
Cheap!
thisisauserid•1h ago
FinSlops.
paulbjensen•1h ago
AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.
archerx•1h ago
Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…
yonatan8070•57m ago
Vendor-locked customers _hate_ him!
pfshort•1h ago
117 billion us dollars. Eat that GDP of Kuwait! But yes I have never scrambled so hard to try to get on the phone with someone at AWS in my life. Terrifying 10 minutes until I found that banner on the support page. It should be front and center on the dash, not hidden away. And in yellow.
rboyd•1h ago
Ask for some leniency. Let your account rep know about your budget difficulties and ask if you can make good faith payments of a few billion per month until you get back on your feet.
blitzar•1h ago
In unrelated news I just hit my target for S3 revenue (projections). Promotion meeting locked in for tomorrow (fastest in the companies history), looking forward to being a L2 Amazon employee.
nottorp•1h ago
Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?
lovich•1h ago
You really should get your spending under control. Unfortunately unless you become one of the real people class through a large lottery, it sounds like you owe the rest of your life to AWS until you can pay off your debts for being so careless.
reactordev•1h ago
“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.

mapt•1h ago
AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.
bdangubic•1h ago
eh your typical off-by-7 (zeros) programmer mistake
rickette•1h ago
Some guy named Claude screwed up.
hoppp•1h ago
How much is that in kidneys?
atmosx•1h ago
A lot.
atmosx•1h ago
Looks like you are the biggest shareholder. Well, going by the popular saying: “You own AWS now”.
aweiland•1h ago
Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
compounding_it•1h ago
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.

kvcm•55m ago
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.
jameskilton•51m ago
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.