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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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post #199

Several 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?

When someone says "I nearly had a heart attack," it's _highly_ unlikely that they actually nearly had a heart attack. I don't think the chances are good that anyone actually had a heart attack.

Re: AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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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?

User: "I want to improve the billing system to be more efficient and só we can earn more money"

AI: "No problem, let me change how we bill and fix the tests for the new increase in value"

Re: AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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post #37

Yes, there is a known issue with cost estimation. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Bit of an understatement: “The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges.”

"There are no customer actions required at this time."

Of course, you provided heart stress failure tests for free.

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post #98

Woke 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

Clearly the Agentic AI is running free on AWS. Matt does it again...what a success...

Re: AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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post #98

Woke 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

Same story for $500 million. I was shaking so bad I couldn't type my password.
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