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

71 points by mirzap 3 hours ago | 44 comments

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

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 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 2 hours ago | |

With interest, of course.

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.

nottorp 1 hour ago |

Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?

pcarmichael 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"

compounding_it 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.

dirkk0 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 2 hours 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 2 hours ago | | |

he did, 140 billion :D

masafej536 1 hour ago | |

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

port3000 2 hours ago |

They have to pay for that AI Capex buildout somehow

paulbjensen 2 hours ago |

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

archerx 2 hours ago | |

Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…

yonatan8070 1 hour ago | | |

Vendor-locked customers _hate_ him!

sankalpmukim 2 hours ago |

AWS pushed the wishful thinking internal calculator to production.

aweiland 1 hour ago |

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

Sheepzez 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

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.

atmosx 1 hour ago |

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

throwaway_5753 2 hours ago |

Should have used Fable.

rickette 1 hour ago |

Some guy named Claude screwed up.

hoppp 1 hour ago |

How much is that in kidneys?

atmosx 1 hour ago | |

A lot.

djantje 2 hours ago |

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

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.

cifvts 3 hours ago |

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

mapt 1 hour ago |

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

thisisauserid 2 hours ago |

FinSlops.

bknight1983 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 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 2 hours ago | |

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

rodeduivel 1 hour ago | | |

MMT!

cyanydeez 2 hours ago |

someones been dognfooding the AI too muxh

kylecazar 2 hours ago |

You didn't have savings opportunities enabled

port3000 2 hours ago | |

Rookie error

tgv 2 hours ago |

Mine was a mere $49B. Fucking idiots.

atmosx 1 hour ago | |

Cheap!

pelagicAustral 2 hours ago |

Imagine it not being a bug...

Sebb767 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 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

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.