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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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”
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.
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.
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.
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.
With interest, of course.
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.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
"Operational issue - AWS Billing Console (Global) Service - AWS Billing Console Severity Impacted - Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"
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.
Can you not set spending limits in AWS?
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.
No, alerts but not limits.
he did, 140 billion :D
If you owe AWS 140B dollars its their problem ;)
Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?
They have to pay for that AI Capex buildout somehow
AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.
Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…
Vendor-locked customers _hate_ him!
AWS pushed the wishful thinking internal calculator to production.
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.
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
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.
Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
Should have used Fable.
“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.
Yes, an incident is ongoing https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Looks like you are the biggest shareholder. Well, going by the popular saying: “You own AWS now”.
I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
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.
Some guy named Claude screwed up.
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
$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”
Yeah, small timers, I only got $4,4T. How will I finance this?
MMT!
How much is that in kidneys?
A lot.
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.
someones been dognfooding the AI too muxh
FinSlops.
AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.
You didn't have savings opportunities enabled
Rookie error
Mine was a mere $49B. Fucking idiots.
Cheap!
Imagine it not being a bug...
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.
Time to become a shepherd in some remote mountains.
Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!
eh your typical off-by-7 (zeros) programmer mistake
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.