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- fronWoke 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 dollarsAnyways I didn't need coffee. That produced an adrenaline release unlike any I've experienced before. Thanks AWS
- astonexFrom their status page>The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem.Want to bet AI code was involved?
- AngryKittenYou folks are completely irresponsible with your finances. I only spent $2.4 million last night. You've got to learn to manage your money.
- elondaitsWoke up to a 100 billion dollars in S3, which is above the USD 4 alarm threshold I had set (I pay $0.55 monthly) . Some AI decided to prune the most impressionable of us.
- hoppylukeMy estimate was only $21M (vs ~$0.01 average bill). Wish I had checked status sooner and saved myself the panic!My process went: verify email is not phishing (it was), login to console and check dashboard (same amount), attempt to understand cost (cost management kept contradicting itself), try to log support ticket and only on that part did I notice the status notification. At least I can breathe again now!
- jwikYes, there is a known issue with cost estimation.https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- throwaway_5753Scared me even though it was obviously a bug once I stopped to consider the magnitude ($bn). Very unfriendly that they don't allow for hard spend caps; closed my mostly dormant personal account as a result.
- throwatdem12311Hey man AI makes mistakes sometimes that’s why you need to double check the output.
- carraSeveral comments here talk about "nearly" having a heart attack. But I wonder: since it's happened to so many people, chances are someone had a heart attack for real. Can they legally be made responsible for that?
- anonundefined
- graemepSomeone I know woke up this morning to over 3 trillion dollars.Love to see how hyperscalers make your life easier and less worrying.
- nneonneoGiven the wild but apparently "consistent" numbers I wonder if we could reverse-engineer the wrong algorithm with enough data points? Maybe the proper cost estimate has some relationship to the reported cost estimate.
- WalterGR> Anyone else seeing something like this?You can use the search box at the bottom of every page to search for previous posts.This was posted an hour before you posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241
- fuorileggeI have just received a similar alert for $ 5bAWS on their support data is reporting this:Inaccurate Estimated Billing DataJul 17 3:03 AM PDT We continue to work to resolve the issue affecting estimated cost and usage data displayed in the Billing and Cost Management Console. We have identified the root cause as an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem and we are working on a mitigation. The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges. There are no customer actions required at this time. Once the issue has been mitigated, we expect full resolution to take multiple hours as we work through recomputing the estimated billing data. We will provide another update by 4:00 AM PDT or sooner if more information becomes available.Jul 17 2:07 AM PDT Beginning on July 16 7:38 PM PDT, we began displaying incorrect estimated billing data in the Billing and Cost Management Console. Our engineering teams are engaged and investigating root cause. We will provide another update by 3:00 AM PDT or sooner if more information becomes available.Jul 17 1:33 AM PDT We are investigating issues with Cost Explorer reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data.
- craigmoliverDitto on the heart attack. My cost estimate for the month is currently $223,509,270,216.17. My girlfriend suggested contacting Elon for help. Glad I found this thread. Maybe I should create new keys anyway, this stuff freaks me out.
- tokioyoyoThank you so much! I just woke up, and saw budget alert email for a dormant account to use $434,896.90. I haven't gotten so awake so fast in such a long time.
- _joelI've had a mysterious Neptune cluster appear on my billing. Never used it, no API key access (or IAM instance profile access, OIDC etc), nothing in my console shows I've ever had one in any region. Raised a case with support, they ignored it.
- cma256In moments like these I'm reminded of all the people who have committed suicide due to billing errors. This is completely unacceptable. These sorts of errors must _never_ happen.
- avpushkingMe too, hello all. I've got 59 Million dollars in billing threshold reached email from AWS. And felt the same as others, and after half an hour of investigation I saw their message on top of the support page. I have 6 mb for static website stores in S3. No other resources.
- boesboesI seem to have spend >35trilion on rds today, sooo yeah, going great at AWS
- devin-2030At some point my role was to reduce our startup’s AWS bill. I managed to keep 7 figures on our books instead of handing it to AWS. But a message like that would have given me a heart attack in those days.Long story short: it saved the company from irrelevance. “Well-architected” is for the hyperscalers’ balance sheet, not yours.
- dpcxMy estimate was over 2T. Talk about waking up quickly...
- noisy_boyIf I can expect to be penalized for not paying my legitimate bills, companies should also be penalized for failing to implement common-sense reasonable safeguards that prevent them from slapping their consumers with such absurdities.
- anonundefined
- alfiedotwtfVibe Billing
- sailfastWho is going to compensate us for the years taken off our lives when we received the alerts?
- Group_BYeah nearly had a heart attack this morning. Thought keys were leaked for a sec.
- MacCopperMy Budget is 10$. The month forecasted cost associated with this budget is $182,278,249,263.06.Even though I new they could not collect the whole amount, I wondered whether I was hacked. I closed the account, it was an old testing account anyways.
- HarHarVeryFunnyThey should have added "make no mistakes" to the prompt.
- tedk-42far out it's 10pm here and I was just about to sleep when my wife nugged me about a billing alert from AWS.$151 billion the number for me.
- themgt"If you owe AWS a hundred thousand dollars, that's your problem. If you owe AWS three billion dollars, that's Amazon's problem."
- lordleftGot a message that I owe 37 million on an account that I haven't used in probably...6 years?
- orbaskerYes seeing the same, so far no response from AWS support
- ownagefoolMines was $190,594,974,587,761.20 :)
- dvhPrompt: bill our aws customers, make no mistakes.
- gioazziHeard of somebody who got 19 quadrillion dollars - I thought they meant Zimbabwean dollars
- ohnooooooooooDid it recover for you folks? I still see billions of dollars!
- jdw64I 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.
- segmondyvibe coding for the win.
- anonundefined
- tcp_handshakerThree billion dollars sounds about right for a free week of Kiro in the default Agentic mode. We usually see slightly higher numbers, so I wouldn’t be too concerned.
- th3o6a1d131 billion for me
- steve1977I mean 3 billion USD is clearly too big to fail, so I wouldn't worry too much
- ohnoooooooooodid it recover for you? I still see billions
- lightedmanLiteral basic fucking math, Amazon.You don't need hours to recalculate billing. You need to go back to basic algebra.Anyone using Amazon and dealing with this should be moving away from their services because something this basic going wrong means the correct people are not at the helm of the ship.
- gib444Maybe they accidentally used the Argentine peso ;)
- supersoftware[dead]