Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates

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By BeauHDJul 17, 2026, 5:00 pm126 ptsTrending
AWS says a billing software bug caused some customers to see wildly inflated estimated charges, including reports of accounts showing bills in the billions or even trillions of dollars. The Register reports: An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am…

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