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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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#242I 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.
I did too, those awstrack.me URL's look super suspicious and I hadn't seen this alert trigger before so didn't know what to expect.
At first I was sure it was a phishing attempt. Then went to the console (not using those links) Saw there was an outage where the console was wrong (no mention of email alerts) Then I thought I was hacked - what a perfect cover up for someone to evade detection when the console was wrong. Looked at some logs, realized the incident text was just not exhaustive on the impact. Went back to my cup of coffee.
Note to self- should have looked here first.
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#243I mean 3 billion USD is clearly too big to fail, so I wouldn't worry too much
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#244somewhere a junior dev at AWS just learned their billing dashboard has been off by a factor of a billion and is currently having the worst shower of their career
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#245My first thought was "Oh hell, who left the NAT Gateway on?"
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#247How do we know if our bills were ever right if this made it into production?
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#248This is a strong argument to either self host or work really hard to be cloud agnostic.
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#249> Anyone else seeing something like this?
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#250I seem to have spend >35trilion on rds today, sooo yeah, going great at AWS