Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

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.

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? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681 Points: 1 Comments: 1