AWS Billing Bug Generates Cost Estimates Up to $1 Trillion on Customer Accounts

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AWS confirmed a global bug in its billing console caused a unit pricing error that generated wildly inflated cost estimates, showing charges running into the billions or reaching up to $1 trillion on some accounts.

The company stressed that the phantom figures displayed in the Cost Explorer tool do not reflect actual usage or billing. The pricing glitch affected the estimation subsystem, prompting warnings for users to verify their accounts.

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@intcyberdigest

‼️ BREAKING: AWS users are in shock as the company shows them wildly inflated cost estimates running into billions of dollars per account. AWS has confirmed a global billing console bug as the cause. In some reported cases the estimates ru

@teriradichel

AWS Cost Explorer Bug Shows Customers Trillion-Dollar Billing Estimates ~ Don’t have a heart attack. It’s a bug. But do check for rogue resources hidden in the noise, just to be safe.

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