{"id":20060,"date":"2026-07-17T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/amazon-fixing-bug-that-billed-some-aws-customers-billions-of-dollars\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:00:02","slug":"amazon-fixing-bug-that-billed-some-aws-customers-billions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/amazon-fixing-bug-that-billed-some-aws-customers-billions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Amazon cloud customers woke up on Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon confirmed on Friday that it\u2019s trying to resolve a bug in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers \u201cowed\u201d millions or billions in cloud computing costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/status.aws.amazon.com\/#billingconsole_1784299988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">update on its status page<\/a>, Amazon said it began seeing inaccurate billing data as of late Thursday. But by Friday morning, the company conceded that the \u201crollback of a recent change did not resolve the issue.\u201d Amazon said the change relates to its billing computation subsystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news for the customers who were told they \u201cowe\u201d millions or billions to Amazon are likely off the hook. The billing estimates \u201cdo not reflect actual usage and charges,\u201d Amazon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to several screenshots <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/aws\/comments\/1uyuaw7\/help_my_bill_skyrocketed_from_around_5_cents_per\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted by Amazon customers on Reddit<\/a>, one customer was quoted a billing estimate of close to $2.5 billion for this month\u2019s AWS usage, while others had similar alerts, ranging from a few million dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Amazon did not immediately return a request for comment. The issue is expected to last several more hours, per Amazon\u2019s status page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/17\/amazon-fixing-bug-that-billed-some-aws-customers-billions-of-dollars\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Some Amazon cloud customers woke up on Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazon confirmed on Friday that it\u2019s trying to resolve a bug in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers \u201cowed\u201d millions or billions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecig-canada-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecigcanadazone.com\/restofcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}