Yet another Hacker News

41 points nprateem 2 hours ago 50 comments

URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is < $5.

Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket. Anyone else seeing something like this?

Update: Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_skyrocketed_from_around_5_cents_per/

balintpeter 2 hours ago | parent

Yea, same here. $420M+ bill, when we have <10$ per month usually.

ninjin-carh 2 hours ago | parent

I got 109 billion - am I the winner?

nprateem 2 hours ago | parent

Depends. Did you also get a free heart attack?

kubelsmieci 8 minutes ago | parent

This is real risk. Someone could really have a serious health problem.

princetman 2 hours ago | parent

Sorry mate, $241,946,798,744.75 for Glacier here.

meraku 2 hours ago | parent

Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.

Hamuko 1 hour ago | parent

I went from 0.03€ to $8B.

sshine 1 hour ago | parent

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!

pqvst 2 hours ago | parent

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.

zengineer 1 hour ago | parent

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.

tlovage 1 hour ago | parent

I got estimated costs of $56.something billions. Usually ~$100/month. My heart rate currently still sits at around 160 bpm. Motherfuckers.

rvz 1 hour ago | parent

I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.

lukaslueg 1 hour ago | parent

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!

realizer 1 hour ago | parent

$627,487,837,871.49

I might be a winner.

iamrik9 1 hour ago | parent

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

rucury 1 hour ago | parent

Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.

Hamuko 1 hour ago | parent

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.

fian 7 minutes ago | parent

This is probably going to push me to completely close a couple of AWS accounts I setup when doing training courses so I could get certified (mandatory requirement from my work).

I'm not currently running anything and have no plans to at the moment. I've always had a mild dread that I'll suddenly get a bill for more than $0.00.

If AWS can goof in a way that causes obviously massive bills (like today), what's to say they can't goof in more subtle ways and start charging small additional amounts that many people may not notice and just pay it.

akerl_ 1 hour ago | parent

What would your damages be? They’re not actually going to charge your credit card for 34 billion.

rucury 47 minutes ago | parent

I mean, emotional damages are a thing right?

akerl_ 42 minutes ago | parent

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.

zcemycl 1 hour ago | parent

Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.

philipallstar 1 hour ago | parent

Maybe they're using too many humans and not enough AI in their software development. That must be it.

cyanydeez 1 hour ago | parent

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.

marksk 1 hour ago | parent

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.

sshine 1 hour ago | parent

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.

im-broke 1 hour ago | parent

Help, what is this number - US$87,967,679,887,258.36

sshine 1 hour ago | parent

That's 87 trillion, 967 billion, 679 million, and so on.

GuestFAUniverse 1 hour ago | parent

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.

Hamuko 1 hour ago | parent

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.

josefdlange 1 hour ago | parent

Well, no coffee needed this morning.

$103,515,940,301.79

sscaryterry 1 hour ago | parent

Vibe coding billing systems is a top-notch idea :)

ruddct 1 hour ago | parent

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7 billion, that's the bank's problem.

dv_dt 1 hour ago | parent

Cynically I wonder if this has an outcome as an unintentional (or intentional) anchoring exercise for future cost increases

mrtksn 1 hour ago | parent

Wow, those price increases due to the RAM and storage shortages AI caused are brutal.

jumperabg 1 hour ago | parent

Most likely they also forgot to include "make no mistakes" instructions to their in-house LLM that deploys to production.

hokkos 1 hour ago | parent

Same, i am now a slave to Jeff Bezos to the end of my life.

wewewedxfgdf 1 hour ago | parent

Cloud pricing has gotten ridiculous.

Host your own people. Host your own.

warumdarum 1 hour ago | parent

The old hypsters have to subsidize the new hypsters.

ares623 1 hour ago | parent

this counts towards ARR right? would be stupid not to

foo-bar-baz529 1 hour ago | parent

Hope they’re using 64 bits to store these prices

sva_ 57 minutes ago | parent

float will have to do it.

r0ckarong 1 hour ago | parent

Pff rookie numbers, mine was 375 billion.

wewewedxfgdf 1 hour ago | parent

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.

roosgit 1 hour ago | parent

Amazon, the first quadrillion-dollar company.

steveBK123 55 minutes ago | parent

Golden era of software productivity they say

yuchen20 55 minutes ago | parent

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.

kinkuraj 45 minutes ago | parent

Yes I received an 2.8m USD budget alert.

lsdafjasd 38 minutes ago | parent

I have $13,034.40, while not having used AWS for the last 8 months. Not as much but still crapped my pants

fathermarz 18 minutes ago | parent

Just got mine. $534,366,582,647.75