From their status page >The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem. Want to bet AI code was involved?
Can I bet you 437 billion dollars?
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#162Prompt: bill our aws customers, make no mistakes.
Prompt: investigate new ways to fund additional AI datacenters.
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#163Who is going to compensate us for the years taken off our lives when we received the alerts?
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#164From their status page >The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem. Want to bet AI code was involved?
>Spawning Sub-Agent: "Dr. Evil"
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#165Scared me even though it was obviously a bug once I stopped to consider the magnitude ($bn). Very unfriendly that they don't allow for hard spend caps; closed my mostly dormant personal account as a result.
If they did allow hard spend caps, it sounds like today would be a global outage.
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#167Woke up to a billing alarm email. Thought I had leaked my AWS keys accidentally and somehow run up 437 billion dollars of charges. Joke's on them though, I don't have 437 billion dollars Anyways I didn't need coffee. That produced an adrenaline release unlike any I've experienced before. Thanks AWS
Worth a shot to give them a call and explain that. They can probably adjust it down to 100 billion.
What is this, US health care negotiations?
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#168From their status page >The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem. Want to bet AI code was involved?
I'm not a betting person but I am looking forward to the postmortem, whether or not AI was involved, and what their code to production verification stuff looks like now. This kind of thing should have been caught by automated tests.
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#169You folks are completely irresponsible with your finances. I only spent $2.4 million last night. You've got to learn to manage your money.
Yeah, buy less cappuchinos and avocado toast so you can pay your AWS bills people!
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#170My estimate was over 2T. Talk about waking up quickly...
For science I hope people are trying to figure out now how they could manage to rack up a 2T bill in a month.