AWS billed one customer $1.7 billion, then blamed a 'unit pricing' bug (news.ycombinator.com)
The post itself was simple: was anyone else's AWS bill suddenly showing nine or ten extra zeros? Hundreds of replies said yes, from a $286 million alert to one account reading a flat $109 billion.
The most surprising part wasn't the bug itself: AWS never sent a direct alert about it. Users had to stumble onto a single line buried on the AWS Health status page to learn their multi-billion-dollar bill was fake.
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