In unrelated news I just hit my target for S3 revenue (projections). Promotion meeting locked in for tomorrow (fastest in the companies history), looking forward to being a L2 Amazon employee.
AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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#102Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.
I hope they send out some free credits at least. I imagine quite a few people got a real fucking scare today. They haven't even sent out any corrections yet.
This is probably going to push me to completely close a couple of AWS accounts I setup when doing training courses so I could get certified (mandatory requirement from my work).
I'm not currently running anything and have no plans to at the moment. I've always had a mild dread that I'll suddenly get a bill for more than $0.00.
If AWS can goof in a way that causes obviously massive bills (like today), what's to say they can't goof in more subtle ways and start charging small additional amounts that many people may not notice and just pay it.
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#104Looks like they set up a LLM to estimate billing?
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#105You really should get your spending under control. Unfortunately unless you become one of the real people class through a large lottery, it sounds like you owe the rest of your life to AWS until you can pay off your debts for being so careless.
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#106“Due to a rounding error” or a buffer overflow, you now owe INT_MAX to BaldGuyCloudService.
Yeah, this most certainly is bad code wrapping around a value. AWS will post a notice soon if they haven’t already.
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#107AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.
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#108Maybe they accidentally used the Argentine peso ;)
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#109eh your typical off-by-7 (zeros) programmer mistake
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#110Some guy named Claude screwed up.