I once got a credit card statement that said estimated time to repay ....... more than 100,000 years. It was discouraging but I did pay it off. And sooner than estimated.
I got 3 consecutive emails warning that my budget crossed its $18 threshold. Opened it up: cost was 78 million. Thought it was a phishing attempt, logged into my actual account, and... still 78 million. EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.
Apparently what used to be `GB of storage consumed` is confused with `Bytes of storage consumed`, leading to a cool off by 2*30 error.
> You're right to question my calculation. The MCP server failed to connect when I tried to look up the field definition. I guessed instead of validating. This is on me. But look at all the revenue!
Probably the closest I've ever been to getting a heart attack. Normally <$1 per month, and now suddenly $284,006,266,443.74. Whatever the bug is on their end, this is unforgivable.
Same - just had some malicious bots running through my platform last week and really thought they found a security hole after all. Even though the amount sounded ridicoulus, I got quite nervous and a very bad feeling when I logged-in AWS and saw that price.
logged in this morning to find a bill of $595 Billion... heart rate went through the roof... then I noticed the open issue, phew! nice one guys... you got me there...
But with AWS costs rising anyway (not by that much but OK), I'm probably not the only one to start reconsidering their cloud strategy. I think this might have just pushed me over the edge.
Even though it's just a bug, being charged $595B on a platform that is known to cost spike, reminds us that we're not in control of the platform, or our company's expenses.
I hope they send out some free credits at least. I imagine quite a few people got a real fucking scare today. They haven't even sent out any corrections yet.
Don't worry. With so much debt banks start to treat you with respect. /S
Honestly, I would worry more about estimated billing that seems plausible in general, but is way to high for you personally.
These ridiculous amounts? Not so much.
I have $13,034.40, while not having used AWS for the last 8 months. Not as much but still crapped my pants
I once got a credit card statement that said estimated time to repay ....... more than 100,000 years. It was discouraging but I did pay it off. And sooner than estimated.
I got 3 consecutive emails warning that my budget crossed its $18 threshold. Opened it up: cost was 78 million. Thought it was a phishing attempt, logged into my actual account, and... still 78 million. EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.
Maybe they're using too many humans and not enough AI in their software development. That must be it.
Apparently what used to be `GB of storage consumed` is confused with `Bytes of storage consumed`, leading to a cool off by 2*30 error.
> You're right to question my calculation. The MCP server failed to connect when I tried to look up the field definition. I guessed instead of validating. This is on me. But look at all the revenue!
Cynically I wonder if this has an outcome as an unintentional (or intentional) anchoring exercise for future cost increases
Probably the closest I've ever been to getting a heart attack. Normally <$1 per month, and now suddenly $284,006,266,443.74. Whatever the bug is on their end, this is unforgivable.
Same - just had some malicious bots running through my platform last week and really thought they found a security hole after all. Even though the amount sounded ridicoulus, I got quite nervous and a very bad feeling when I logged-in AWS and saw that price.
I feel much better after seeing the $B estimates here; I only have an estimate of $34M so far
Folks can track it directly on AWS Health: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Wow, those price increases due to the RAM and storage shortages AI caused are brutal.
Most likely they also forgot to include "make no mistakes" instructions to their in-house LLM that deploys to production.
Vibe coding billing systems is a top-notch idea :)
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7 billion, that's the bank's problem.
Yes I received an 2.8m USD budget alert.
Golden era of software productivity they say
logged in this morning to find a bill of $595 Billion... heart rate went through the roof... then I noticed the open issue, phew! nice one guys... you got me there...
But with AWS costs rising anyway (not by that much but OK), I'm probably not the only one to start reconsidering their cloud strategy. I think this might have just pushed me over the edge.
Even though it's just a bug, being charged $595B on a platform that is known to cost spike, reminds us that we're not in control of the platform, or our company's expenses.
Amazon, the first quadrillion-dollar company.
Hope they’re using 64 bits to store these prices
float will have to do it.
Cloud pricing has gotten ridiculous.
Host your own people. Host your own.
The old hypsters have to subsidize the new hypsters.
Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.
Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.
I went from 0.03€ to $8B.
Not only did your cost spike, it changed currency and went from postfix to prefix!
I understand people complaining about large bills, but this is over the top!
Help, what is this number - US$87,967,679,887,258.36
That's 87 trillion, 967 billion, 679 million, and so on.
Well, no coffee needed this morning.
$103,515,940,301.79
I got 109 billion - am I the winner?
Sorry mate, $241,946,798,744.75 for Glacier here.
Depends. Did you also get a free heart attack?
I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.
AWS has become the uber employer: before AWS, you just had regular employers steeling employee wages bit by bit by forcing work, skipping breaks, etc.
All hail the new generations of our uberployers.
Yea, same here. $420M+ bill, when we have <10$ per month usually.
this counts towards ARR right? would be stupid not to
Same, i am now a slave to Jeff Bezos to the end of my life.
Pff rookie numbers, mine was 375 billion.
$627,487,837,871.49
I might be a winner.
I got estimated costs of $56.something billions. Usually ~$100/month. My heart rate currently still sits at around 160 bpm. Motherfuckers.
Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.
What would your damages be? They’re not actually going to charge your credit card for 34 billion.
I mean, emotional damages are a thing right?
Not really in the way the media would have you believe.
Like “I was scared for a couple minutes on a Friday morning until I saw the vendor status page” is orders of magnitude away from the bar here.
I hope they send out some free credits at least. I imagine quite a few people got a real fucking scare today. They haven't even sent out any corrections yet.
Don't worry. With so much debt banks start to treat you with respect. /S
Honestly, I would worry more about estimated billing that seems plausible in general, but is way to high for you personally. These ridiculous amounts? Not so much.
I got freaked out by the mere fact that I got a billing alert, since getting one would require my monthly spend to have suddenly exploded.