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

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

https://prnt.sc/UqjcYD3RSQrS

76 points | by mirzap 2 hours ago

32 comments

  • rboyd 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.
  • pfshort 1 hour 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 2 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 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
      Can you not set spending limits in AWS?
      • inigyou 1 hour 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.
      • boristsr 1 hour ago
        No, alerts but not limits.
      • reformd 1 hour ago
        he did, 140 billion :D
    • masafej536 1 hour ago
      If you owe AWS 140B dollars its their problem ;)
  • nottorp 1 hour ago
    Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?
  • port3000 1 hour ago
    They have to pay for that AI Capex buildout somehow
  • sankalpmukim 1 hour ago
    AWS pushed the wishful thinking internal calculator to production.
  • paulbjensen 1 hour ago
    AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.
    • archerx 1 hour ago
      Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…
      • yonatan8070 40 minutes ago
        Vendor-locked customers _hate_ him!
  • Sheepzez 2 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

  • compounding_it 58 minutes 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 1 hour ago
    Should have used Fable.
  • aweiland 1 hour ago
    Glad I saw this. Mine said I racked up $400B yesterday. My usual spend is $15.
  • reactordev 1 hour 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.

  • kvcm 38 minutes 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.
  • cifvts 2 hours ago
  • djantje 1 hour ago
    I also like the percentual change, that is a lot of comma's.
  • atmosx 1 hour ago
    Looks like you are the biggest shareholder. Well, going by the popular saying: “You own AWS now”.
  • jameskilton 33 minutes 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.

  • bknight1983 1 hour 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 38 minutes 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 1 hour ago
      Yeah, small timers, I only got $4,4T. How will I finance this?
  • rickette 1 hour ago
    Some guy named Claude screwed up.
  • hoppp 1 hour ago
    How much is that in kidneys?
  • cyanydeez 1 hour ago
    someones been dognfooding the AI too muxh
  • lovich 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
    FinSlops.
  • mapt 1 hour ago
    AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.
  • kylecazar 1 hour ago
    You didn't have savings opportunities enabled
  • tgv 1 hour ago
    Mine was a mere $49B. Fucking idiots.
  • pelagicAustral 1 hour ago
    Imagine it not being a bug...
    • Sebb767 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
      Time to become a shepherd in some remote mountains.
    • RGamma 1 hour ago
      Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!
  • bdangubic 1 hour ago
    eh your typical off-by-7 (zeros) programmer mistake
  • lostnfound8778 1 hour ago
    [dead]
  • blitzar 1 hour 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.