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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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#362One can almost smell the vibes. This is peanuts compared to a major cybersecurity catastrophe that’s surely in the making. To give credit to the technology and the people using it - and I’m not being facetious - it’s actually incredible that at the current levels of usage the unprecedented catastrophic event has not yet happened.
Always messing up some mundane detail!
THIS IS NOT A MUNDANE DETAIL MICHAEL
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#363Clearly they weren't tokenmaxxing hard enough or weren't using the latest models /s.
What an absolute joke. All just so that line goes up. As if their fees weren't high enough vs. alternatives (especially egress). And I'm sure the pro-AI crowd will keep saying we're luddites for not loving this clearly revolutionary and disruptive tech.
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#364If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7 billion, that's the bank's problem.
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#365Re: AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
#366Is it even possible to audit the cloud pricing? They just give us a number and we pay.
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#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
The irony is, the only purely deterministic thing, will be token consumption...
I severely doubt the world ever gets to such a point that the entire world melts into AI hallucination. And token consumption depends on so many other things, it's not all that deterministic either.
(token usage) is trending towards predictability for a lot of reasons. it's not deterministic but it's getting easier to reason about usage.
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#368I 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.
Enterprise account . We got - 3trillion and change
-$3 trillion! That's the highest earning investment that has ever existed!
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#369For anything below a Trillion, you should just take it out petty-cash.
My sympathies -- I know I would be overcome with panic in such a situation.
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#370They 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.
Somehow I highly doubt anyone will leave AWS over this unless their use of AWS is way more low-complexity than the average account.
People make similar pronouncements after every us-east-1 outage makes the news, but I feel like AWS would be going out of business by now if people followed through.
It reminds me of airlines, where after a particularly grueling irregular ops experience, a few dozen people file off the plane swearing "Never again, !" but really, we all must know deep down that the airlines are all subject to the same external inciting factors, internal profit motivations, and human imperfection, and thus all pretty equally likely to cause us a bad day or ruined trip. The effort spent to avoid one isn't really worth it.