'My soul left my body': customers see bills in the billions after AWS billing system goes haywire — but don't go emptying your bank accounts
- Amazon's AWS cloud services billing system went wild on Friday
- Customers saw bills in the trillions
- AWS apologized and is working on a fix
AWS, the cloud platform that serves millions who use Amazon's servers to run websites and businesses you use every day, just freaked out many of its customers with usage bills that literally went into the trillions.
"I just saw $1.5 trillion on my AWS bill and my soul left my body," wrote Bharath_uwu on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, and he wasn't alone.
The Guardian originally spotted the Tweet and multiple social posts relating to the seemingly widespread glitch.
AWS doesn't mail out invoices. Instead, customers logging into the Billing and Cost Management console spotted the billion- and trillion-dollar bills and expressed emotions ranging from concern to panic.
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As Dan Harvey, who heads marketing at Learning Through Landscapes, told the Guardian, "I almost...
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