Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

#1

Post by mirzap » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC

This has to be a bug. My usual monthly S3 bill is only $2–3. Has anyone else received a strange billing estimate today?

https://prnt.sc/UqjcYD3RSQrS

Re: Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

#2

Post by dang » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241.

Re: Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

#3

Post by mirzap » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #2

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241 .

Why move to a thread that is clearly a copy of my post, created 2 hours after mine?

Re: Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

#4

Post by dang » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC

mirzap wrote: post #3

dang wrote: post #2

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241 .

Why move to a thread that is clearly a copy of my post, created 2 hours after mine?

Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier.

Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Re: Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

#5

Post by mirzap » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 7:40 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #4

mirzap wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why move to a thread that is clearly a copy of my post, created 2 hours after mine?

Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier. Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... .

Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time.

Re: Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

#6

Post by dang » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

mirzap wrote: post #5

dang wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier. Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... .

Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time.

No worries - it can be confusing at times!