DEV-TOOLSJuly 17, 20261 min read

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

An AWS user was shocked to receive an estimated monthly bill of $1.7 billion despite their usual usage being under $5, sparking discussions about cloud billing reliability.

URL already posted:

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/statusI've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is < $5.

Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket. Anyone else seeing something like this?

Update: Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_s...

I will never use them again, they are huge so probably dont really care about small users

I have actually replaced most of what they do with Raspberry Pi's using cloudflare tunnels

Source: Hacker News

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