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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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

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Post by SegfaultSeagull »

yuchen20 wrote: post #62

I got 3 consecutive emails warning that my budget crossed its $18 threshold. Opened it up: cost was 78 million. Thought it was a phishing attempt, logged into my actual account, and... still 78 million. EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.

Time to get a second job buddy.

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Post by ambicapter »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #208
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #58

I once got a credit card statement that said estimated time to repay ....... more than 100,000 years. It was discouraging but I did pay it off. And sooner than estimated.

Were you still alive after paying it off?

No, but they have the internet in the afterlife, apparently.

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Post by minitoar »

handoflixue wrote: post #174
inigyou wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Realtime billing seems entirely within the abilities of AWS. "Limits except for Storage" seems even easier - I don't think I've ever heard of a storage-based billing story, although I'm sure one or two exist

What is a storage-based billing story?

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Post by Planktonne »

handoflixue wrote: post #174
inigyou wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Realtime billing seems entirely within the abilities of AWS. "Limits except for Storage" seems even easier - I don't think I've ever heard of a storage-based billing story, although I'm sure one or two exist

They could do it; they don't want to.

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

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Post by tedggh »

I got a 20K bill once and it was actually drafted from my bank account. It took me a couple of months and involving the office of the AG of my state to get the issue resolved and get my money back. Since then I never touched any AWS product, moved my small stuff to Azure. It’s been years since AWS have these issues with billing, you can find the stories online, students billed 60K for a compromised account launching servers to mine crypto which AWS somehow was unable to flag and block, and let run for months.
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