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

mmirzap about 3 hours ago 50 comments

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

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rboyd•about 2 hours 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.

glenstein•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

With interest, of course.

pfshort•about 2 hours 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.

pcarmichael•about 3 hours ago

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

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

dirkk0•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

Can you not set spending limits in AWS?

inigyou•about 2 hours 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•14 minutes 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•about 2 hours ago

No, alerts but not limits.

reformd•about 2 hours ago

he did, 140 billion :D

masafej536•about 1 hour ago

If you owe AWS 140B dollars its their problem ;)

nottorp•about 2 hours ago

Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?

port3000•about 2 hours ago

They have to pay for that AI Capex buildout somehow

Executor•8 minutes ago

This generation is too entitled! He should some learn responsibility by paying the full amount; otherwise Amazon should delete his services/data. Consequences!

sankalpmukim•about 2 hours ago

AWS pushed the wishful thinking internal calculator to production.

Sheepzez•about 3 hours 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

paulbjensen•about 2 hours ago

AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.

archerx•about 2 hours ago

Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…

yonatan8070•about 1 hour ago

Vendor-locked customers _hate_ him!

compounding_it•about 1 hour 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.

throwaway_5753•about 2 hours ago

Should have used Fable.

aweiland•about 1 hour ago

Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.

cifvts•about 3 hours ago

Yes, an incident is ongoing https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

reactordev•about 2 hours 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.

djantje•about 2 hours ago

I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.

kvcm•about 1 hour 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.

atmosx•about 1 hour ago

Looks like you are the biggest shareholder. Well, going by the popular saying: “You own AWS now”.

bknight1983•about 2 hours 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

MichaelNolan•about 1 hour 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”

danousna•about 2 hours ago

Yeah, small timers, I only got $4,4T. How will I finance this?

rodeduivel•about 2 hours ago

MMT!

rickette•about 2 hours ago

Some guy named Claude screwed up.

cyanydeez•about 2 hours ago

someones been dognfooding the AI too muxh

jameskilton•about 1 hour 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.

hoppp•about 2 hours ago

How much is that in kidneys?

atmosx•about 1 hour ago

A lot.

lovich•about 2 hours 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.

thisisauserid•about 2 hours ago

FinSlops.

mapt•about 2 hours ago

AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.

kylecazar•about 2 hours ago

You didn't have savings opportunities enabled

port3000•about 2 hours ago

Rookie error

tgv•about 2 hours ago

Mine was a mere $49B. Fucking idiots.

atmosx•about 1 hour ago

Cheap!

pelagicAustral•about 2 hours ago

Imagine it not being a bug...

Sebb767•about 2 hours 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.

speedgoose•about 2 hours ago

Time to become a shepherd in some remote mountains.

RGamma•about 2 hours ago

Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!

bdangubic•about 2 hours ago

eh your typical off-by-7 (zeros) programmer mistake

blitzar•about 2 hours 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.