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csunbird
Just got a budget alert that I owe $286,486,223.88 on a hobby aws account, almost got a heart attack.
balintpeter
Yea, same here. $420M+ bill, when we have <10$ per month usually.
mlitwiniuk
I was actually in the toilet when I got an email I owe them $36,869,876,146.51. I literally just shit myself.
meraku
Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.
pqvst
Probably the closest I've ever been to getting a heart attack. Normally <$1 per month, and now suddenly $284,006,266,443.74. Whatever the bug is on their end, this is unforgivable.
dabinat
This is embarrassing for Amazon, but I’d take laughably wrong over subtly wrong any day. If the bug made bills 20% higher I probably wouldn’t have queried it.
princetman
Mine is showing $241,946,798,744.75. I know it will be reverted, but for a brief minute there I suspected someone compromised my account and triggered rust rewrite of everything using thousands of agents via Bedrock :)

Phew.

AegirLeet
Maybe this is a new strategy to scare people into finally locking down their old, unused AWS accounts. It sure worked for me!
tlovage
I got estimated costs of $56.something billions. Usually ~$100/month. My heart rate currently still sits at around 160 bpm. Motherfuckers.
rvz
I expect such incidents like this to continue. So please keep vibe coding.
lukaslueg
Apparently what used to be `GB of storage consumed` is confused with `Bytes of storage consumed`, leading to a cool off by 2*30 error.

> You're right to question my calculation. The MCP server failed to connect when I tried to look up the field definition. I guessed instead of validating. This is on me. But look at all the revenue!

realizer
$627,487,837,871.49

I might be a winner.

rucury
Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.
zcemycl
Aws has created more unicorns than any accelerators.
TekMol
It was over $500k in the email I got. Not a fun experience. My hands were trembling.

Makes you wonder - what if there really would be an incident where some massive amount of traffic got routed to your infrastructure by some heavyweight player? Say Wikipedia accidentally switches their IP to your CloudFront? Would you really be on the hook for $500k?

philipallstar
Maybe they're using too many humans and not enough AI in their software development. That must be it.
cmollis
yeah.. i just to a daily cost alert.. it was only 23 trillion dollars this month. i thought, hmm seems kind of high this month.
cyanydeez
AWS has become the uber employer: before AWS, you just had regular employers steeling employee wages bit by bit by forcing work, skipping breaks, etc.

All hail the new generations of our uberployers.