It is a mistake in the billing console.
Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
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Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#22I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's not even clear that it will include my historical activity when it's ready...
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#23About an hour ago I received a refund receipt from AWS for the extra charge. So it seems like they are addressing the issue.
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#24I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's no…
AWS usage reporting is utter crap. The only usable data for me has been the actual billing table. But that is only monthly.
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#25Yep, exactly double.
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#26Same here. Just checked my Org consolidated bill.
Every service looks to be about double, However if you go to the Cost & Usage report, it looks right.
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#27I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's no…
The good news is that is that Cost Explorer is quite useful once it's on.
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sometime later the alert went off, so I anxiously jumped into AWS to see what kind of disaster was happening, and found that I got billed a few cents... for the alert itself. They charge for billing alerts? I've never used AWS in production and I suppose it's a miniscule cost, but, wow, that seems really pedantic to charge for that.
AWS is a gigantic exercise in figuring out how to gouge customers. Case in point: charging API gateways per HTTP request.
> charging API gateways per HTTP request.
You sort of had me in the first part, but you lost me here.
Charging $3 per million requests for a HTTP interface service?
How else should AWS charge for API Gateway?
(I suppose it could be bandwidth, but that doesn't make sense as API Gateway deals only in small messages; unlike ELB, S3, etc.)
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#29Oh no somebody ran the cron job twice.
Call me, aws. I can help. I know cron jobs.
Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
#30No issues on bills of two orgs I have access to. Cost Explorer shows data as it should too.