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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

#1

Post by nprateem » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:42 AM UTC

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 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_s...

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#2

Post by andystanton » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:42 AM UTC

A couple of relevant links: - AWS Status Page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status - Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_s...

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Post by csunbird » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:45 AM UTC

Just got a budget alert that I owe $286,486,223.88 on a hobby aws account, almost got a heart attack.

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#4

Post by balintpeter » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:46 AM UTC

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

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#5

Post by ninjin-carh » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:48 AM UTC

I got 109 billion - am I the winner?

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#6

Post by mlitwiniuk » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:50 AM UTC

I was actually in the toilet when I got an email I owe them $36,869,876,146.51. I literally just shit myself.

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Post by nprateem » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:53 AM UTC

ninjin-carh wrote: post #5

I got 109 billion - am I the winner?

Depends. Did you also get a free heart attack?

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#8

Post by meraku » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:53 AM UTC

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

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Post by pqvst » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:55 AM UTC

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.

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#10

Post by princetman » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 9:55 AM UTC

Mine is showing $241,946,798,744.75. I know it will be reverted, but for a brief minute there I suspected someone compromised my account and triggered rust rewrite of everything using thousands of agents via Bedrock :)

Phew.