Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

20•mstolpm•1h ago

I receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is 5$. Forecasted amount is listed as $3,005,575,870.47. (Yepp, right, that’s 3 billion dollars.) I haven't even used AWS actively in the last year, but AWS console lists the amount as stated above. No feedback from AWS support yet, but the support AI chat bot says: "Die perfekt gleichmäßigen Tageskosten seit dem 1. Juli deuten stark auf einen Abrechnungs- oder Messfehler hin." ("The perfectly consistent daily costs since July 1 strongly suggest a billing or metering error.") Bot created a support ticket (or at least told me so). Anyone else seeing something like this? Already disabled all AWS IAM roles and deleted all other AWS resources I know of. AWS login not hacked as far as I can tell. But owing Amazon 3 billion dollars is a bit of a concern. Any ideas?

Comments

jwik•1h ago

Yes, there is a known issue with cost estimation.

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

mstolpm•1h ago

Thank you. Have seen this after I posted.

mysterydip•18m ago

Bit of an understatement: “The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges.”

AngryKitten•4m ago

Whatever you do, AWS, don't post a related service health alert site wide on the console. Heck, don't even post one in the billing module. We wouldn't want to overdo the alerts, especially when we already have one being displayed to market the new FinOps Agent in Public Preview.

throwaway_5753•44m ago

Scared me even though it was obviously a bug once I stopped to consider the magnitude ($bn). Very unfriendly that they don't allow for hard spend caps; closed my mostly dormant personal account as a result.

hoppyluke•38m ago

My estimate was only $21M (vs ~$0.01 average bill). Wish I had checked status sooner and saved myself the panic!

My process went: verify email is not phishing (it was), login to console and check dashboard (same amount), attempt to understand cost (cost management kept contradicting itself), try to log support ticket and only on that part did I notice the status notification. At least I can breathe again now!

th3o6a1d•20m ago

131 billion for me

fron•19m ago

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

gib444•13m ago

Maybe they accidentally used the Argentine peso ;)

AngryKitten•10m ago

You folks are completely irresponsible with your finances. I only spent $2.4 million last night. You've got to learn to manage your money.

dvh•8m ago

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