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Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#51

Post by 0xmohit »

dpeterson wrote: post #33

I opened a service ticket. My ec2 instances have somehow been running for over 950 hours in one month. I can go back and see my instances run for 744 hours (what i'd expect in a month) in previous months. Amazon invented more hours than actually exist in a month for billing purposes. Bezos is a genius! I should have thought of that!

Came across this long back: 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2.

Maybe Bezos read this recently and decided to use large values of 24 to compute number of hours in a month.

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#53

Post by jagannathtech »

cbsks wrote: post #52

Whenever I hear news like this, part of me feels bad for all the programmers working very long hours to fix the problem. You can be sure that a lot of pagers started to go off as soon as the reports of billing issues started to come in.

'pagers' Now that's a word that I have not heard in a long time...

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#55

Post by cbsks »

jagannathtech wrote: post #53
cbsks wrote: post #52

Whenever I hear news like this, part of me feels bad for all the programmers working very long hours to fix the problem. You can be sure that a lot of pagers started to go off as soon as the reports of billing issues started to come in.

'pagers' Now that's a word that I have not heard in a long time...

You can tell that I haven’t worked in an on call position in a while...

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#56

Post by propogandist »

cbsks wrote: post #55
jagannathtech wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'pagers' Now that's a word that I have not heard in a long time...

You can tell that I haven’t worked in an on call position in a while...

PagerDuty makes a lot of money https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/pd

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#58

Post by benj111 »

cbsks wrote: post #55
jagannathtech wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'pagers' Now that's a word that I have not heard in a long time...

You can tell that I haven’t worked in an on call position in a while...

My partner still gets a pager for on call at a hospital, she gets a phone as well.

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Post by [deleted] »

0xmohit wrote: post #51
dpeterson wrote: post #33

I opened a service ticket. My ec2 instances have somehow been running for over 950 hours in one month. I can go back and see my instances run for 744 hours (what i'd expect in a month) in previous months. Amazon invented more hours than actually exist in a month for billing purposes. Bezos is a genius! I should have thought of that!

Came across this long back: 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2. Maybe Bezos read this recently and decided to use large values of 24 to compute number of hours in a month.

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