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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
A bug in Amazon’s AWS billing system caused estimated charges for some customers to jump from negligible amounts to billions or even trillions of dollars. The issue stemmed from a problem in the unit-pricing component of the estimated billing computation subsystem, prompting Amazon to issue an apology and work on fixing the glitch.
Written from all 6 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION
- Hacker News·Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B
- Hacker News·Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
- TechCrunch·Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars
- Engadget·A bug in AWS has caused some customers' bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars
- The Next Web·An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
- Wired·AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees
- TechMeme·Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
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