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27 Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · today 17:00 EDT

Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates

AWS says a billing software bug caused some customers to see wildly inflated estimated charges, including reports of accounts showing bills in the billions or even trillions of dollars. The Register reports: An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am Pacific time on Friday informing users that Cost Explorer was "reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data." As of writing, the issue is still unresolved despite AWS trying several different things to.

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