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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 Cthulhu_ »

zengineer wrote: post #131
dvh wrote: post #120

Prompt: bill our aws customers, make no mistakes.

or: Increase revenue!

I mean just overcharging is one approach to achieving that goal I suppose.

But so is imprisoning or exterminating all humans for their own good, as most AI dystopias end up as.

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binaryturtle wrote: post #146
fron wrote: post #98

Woke up to a billing alarm email. Thought I had leaked my AWS keys accidentally and somehow run up 437 billion dollars of charges. Joke's on them though, I don't have 437 billion dollars Anyways I didn't need coffee. That produced an adrenaline release unlike any I've experienced before. Thanks AWS

I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that. There may be a person out there that may be dead as a result. It's entirely irresponsible of Amazon to even display such values to the user.

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

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Post by handoflixue »

inigyou wrote: post #96
charles_f wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not set spending limits in AWS?

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

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Post by Polizeiposaune »

elashri wrote: post #160
gioazzi wrote: post #128

Heard of somebody who got 19 quadrillion dollars - I thought they meant Zimbabwean dollars

one USD is about 362 Zimbabwean dollars. So it would still be about ~53 trillion dollars which is more than the nominal GDP of US and China combined.

For history here, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe redenominated its currency three times in 2006, 2008, and 2009, dropping a total of 25 trailing zeros in the process. the 4th Zimbabwean dollar in 2009 was worth 10^25 of the first zimbabwean dollar.

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

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Post by Hamuko »

binaryturtle wrote: post #146
fron wrote: post #98

Woke up to a billing alarm email. Thought I had leaked my AWS keys accidentally and somehow run up 437 billion dollars of charges. Joke's on them though, I don't have 437 billion dollars Anyways I didn't need coffee. That produced an adrenaline release unlike any I've experienced before. Thanks AWS

I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that. There may be a person out there that may be dead as a result. It's entirely irresponsible of Amazon to even display such values to the user.

Reminds me of the time a Robinhood user killed themselves after Robinhood erroneously showed their account balance at -$730k.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55990461

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