They sent 3 warnings to my email, ok, I understand bugs happen (probably vibe-coded). But they didn't even send any notification that it's a bug. Going to leave AWS after that.
same
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#192My estimate was only $21M (vs ~$0.01 average bill). Wish I had checked status sooner and saved myself the panic! My process went: verify email is not phishing (it was), login to console and check dashboard (same amount), attempt to understand cost (cost management kept contradicting itself), try to log support ticket and only on that part did I notice the status notification. At least I can breathe again now!
A friend of mine went through the same - he got an alert for bill over budget, he logged in and boom 107M$.
I was on the phone with him and we checked that he didn’t leak any APIs keys but no traffic at all. I even thought of a breach at a vendor he uses for some s3 stuff before I found this thread on HN.
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#193I was actually in the toilet when I got an email I owe them $36,869,876,146.51. I literally just shit myself.
Ok, back to $0.17 :D
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that. There may be a person out there that may be dead as a result. It's entirely irresponsible of Amazon to even display such values to the user.
Reminds me of the time a Robinhood user killed themselves after Robinhood erroneously showed their account balance at -$730k. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55990461
In that case, they settled with Robinhood and FINRA fined Robinhood 70 million dollars.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/robinhood-lawsui...
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#195Woke 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
If you owe AWS 437k bucks, that’s a big problem for you If you owe AWS 437B bucks, that’s a big problem for AWS
Far less scary than a smaller amount
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#196Thank you so much! I just woke up, and saw budget alert email for a dormant account to use $434,896.90. I haven't gotten so awake so fast in such a long time.
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#197If I can expect to be penalized for not paying my legitimate bills, companies should also be penalized for failing to implement common-sense reasonable safeguards that prevent them from slapping their consumers with such absurdities.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you not set spending limits in AWS?
No you can't. Spending limits imply realtime billing backend flows and they also imply deleting all your data so that you don't pay for storage.
I heard this false justification already in 2007, in spite of many customers asking for it.
Incidentaly, smaller competitors solved this issue decades ago, while the big cloud decided it is more convenient never to implement it.
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#199Several comments here talk about "nearly" having a heart attack. But I wonder: since it's happened to so many people, chances are someone had a heart attack for real. Can they legally be made responsible for that?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that. There may be a person out there that may be dead as a result. It's entirely irresponsible of Amazon to even display such values to the user.
Ah, there'll be something in the TOS absolving them of responsibility.
Well... That depends on the country jurisdiction. And any ToS is bounded by law and can be questioned.