{"slug": "ask-hn-any-aws-billing-issues-known-amazon-forecast-of-3-billion-dollars", "title": "Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars", "summary": "An AWS user reported receiving a budget alert forecasting $3 billion in charges despite not actively using the service for a year. The user disabled IAM roles and deleted resources, and AWS support's AI chatbot acknowledged the anomaly as a likely billing or metering error. The incident raises concerns about AWS billing accuracy and customer support responsiveness.", "body_md": "I receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is 5$. Forecasted amount is listed as $3,005,575,870.47. (Yepp, right, that’s 3 billion dollars.) I haven't even used AWS actively in the last year, but AWS console lists the amount as stated above. No feedback from AWS support yet, but the support AI chat bot says: \"Die perfekt gleichmäßigen Tageskosten seit dem 1. Juli deuten stark auf einen Abrechnungs- oder Messfehler hin.\" (\"The perfectly consistent daily costs since July 1 strongly suggest a billing or metering error.\") Bot created a support ticket (or at least told me so). Anyone else seeing something like this? Already disabled all AWS IAM roles and deleted all other AWS resources I know of. AWS login not hacked as far as I can tell. But owing Amazon 3 billion dollars is a bit of a concern. Any ideas?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-any-aws-billing-issues-known-amazon-forecast-of-3-billion-dollars", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681", "published_at": "2026-07-17 10:45:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 10:51:06.501220+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools"], "entities": ["AWS", "Amazon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-any-aws-billing-issues-known-amazon-forecast-of-3-billion-dollars", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-any-aws-billing-issues-known-amazon-forecast-of-3-billion-dollars.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-any-aws-billing-issues-known-amazon-forecast-of-3-billion-dollars.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-any-aws-billing-issues-known-amazon-forecast-of-3-billion-dollars.jsonld"}}