I got 109 billion - am I the winner?
Sorry mate, $241,946,798,744.75 for Glacier here.
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#12I was actually in the toilet when I got an email I owe them $36,869,876,146.51. I literally just shit myself.
Mine was about the same and evoked a similar response.
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#13Maybe this is a new strategy to scare people into finally locking down their old, unused AWS accounts. It sure worked for me!
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#14I got estimated costs of $56.something billions. Usually ~$100/month. My heart rate currently still sits at around 160 bpm. Motherfuckers.
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#15I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.
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#16Probably 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.
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.
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#17Apparently 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!
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#18https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Looks like this is a bug w/ S3
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#19$627,487,837,871.49
I might be a winner.
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#20I 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