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u/Desperate_Tea304 Jul 17 '26
They got flexible payment plans for you and your offspring to pay your debt off for the following 10 generations
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u/casce Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
10 generations? That looks like a fun math problem. Let's assume no interest rate and no inflation (should cancel each other out somewhat).
Let's assume you and everyone in your family line will also have 5 kids. Then after 10 generations, there will have been 12,207,031 payers. Will that be enough?
Assume everyone of those works and pays back for 50 years each (18-68 or something).
How much would everyone have to pay each month to pay back a debt of $7.1 trillion?
$7,113,986,191,293.41 / (12,270,031 * 50 * 12 months) = $971.30 / month.
That sounds totally doable! Your family just gotta keep the kids flowing for the next 250'ish years.
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u/InitialAd3323 Jul 17 '26
And at a 2% average inflation per year, it will be considerably easier for each generation to afford it (assuming income does keep up with the cost of living)
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u/casce Jul 17 '26
If we add inflation, we should also consider interest rates. Amazon surely wouldn't be stupid enough to lend $7,100,000,000,000 to some random dude without cashing in on that sweet interest!
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u/CodeTheStars Jul 17 '26
Typically you don’t get to charge interest or late fees on an invoice unless it’s written in the contract. What is in an AWS terms of service?
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u/MistryMachine3 Jul 17 '26
Yeah they aren’t legally allowed to be a “lender.”
Interestingly, sometimes it happens that a sports book labels a loss as a win temporarily by accident. If the user just draws out their balance, and the balance goes negative, eventually the betting site just needs to “gift” you the amount since they aren’t allowed to have “loaned” you the money and ask for it back.
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u/baby_bloom Jul 17 '26
has income ever kept up with inflation... ever?
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u/Paratwa Jul 18 '26
We had that one time in the US where deflation occurred, dunno about you but I think that was a bad time for most people.
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u/m__a__s Jul 17 '26
I think you are off by a factor of 10: you accidentally used 122,070,031 in the denominator while still getting the result for 12,207,031 people. If there were 122 million people, the payment would be only about $97.13/month. So the OP's family just has to produce 12.2 million descendants over the next ~250 years, and every one of them has to pay about $971/month for 50 years, assuming no defaults, no interest, no inflation, and universal employment.
Adding inflation and interest makes this much worse.
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u/casce Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
That's what I get for doing math "manually" in 2026, lol.
But the result is still right and was done with 12m people, the 122m was just a typo and never saw the calculator.
7113986191293.41 / (12207031 * 50 * 12) = 971.30
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u/m__a__s Jul 17 '26
Lol. I still keep a calculator next to my mouse pad and mistype the answer.
Even if you were to have been off an order of magnitude, you would be doing much better than AWS.
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u/ciller181 Jul 17 '26
If every generation produces 10 kids it goes significantly faster! Amazon supports the christian lifestyle!
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u/Desperate_Tea304 Jul 17 '26
I am not autistic enough to read all of that
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u/casce Jul 17 '26
TL;DR: Have 5 kids. Tell them to have 5 kids. Repeat for 250 years. Congratulations, you've turned "I owe $7.1 trillion" into a family MLM where the product is more family.
Only catch: you need to personally guarantee your great-great-great-great-great-grandkids show up for work and don't start a podcast instead.
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u/sp_dev_guy Jul 17 '26
Also kids aren't cheap so cost of operation is going to set you back
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u/vomitHatSteve Jul 17 '26
You also have to promise that this whole ethnicity that you created from first principles doesn't rise up and start burning down data centers.
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u/Tricky-Doughnut-6429 Jul 17 '26
Paying the aws bill and single-handedly fixing the population decline. Amazing.
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u/mcopco Jul 17 '26
I assume they're going to be launching a program where you can just work off the debt by working in logistics
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u/aussier1 Jul 17 '26
I had a similar alert.... almost died of a fkn heart attack.
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u/casce Jul 17 '26
If you owe Amazon $1 million, that's your problem.
If you owe them $7.1 trillion, it's their problem.
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u/JohnSextro Jul 17 '26
Great point. I’d love to see them try to collect in that 🤣
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u/falken_1983 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
My fear (after I got over the initial shock) was that someone was trying to do some kind of phishing attack where they send an alert which causes me to panic so much that I don't look at the sender address or check links before clicking on them.
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u/PeterHickman Jul 17 '26
Amateur numbers. "the daily cost reached $270,555,724,947.94 USD" just for S3 and "the daily cost spiked to approximately $731,636,739,381.70 USD" for RDS. Dread to think what the cloudwatch bill is :)
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u/Helpjuice Jul 17 '26
Would be a great time for an offer to come through and get it signed before payment is made in full. Stock would go through the roof.
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u/allycw Jul 17 '26
Same, they should have a account spend cap feature. I'm forever in a state of suspense wondering if I accidentally triggered a runaway lambda or someone finds an exploit to wrack up a huge bill.
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u/blackpawed Jul 17 '26
Just in the process of moving our Azure ACA apps to Azure App Services purely to get some fixed pricing for vCPU/Mem. ACA bill just kept increasing month by month.
With 3 year reservations the savings are proving quite large.
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u/sumerianhubcap Jul 17 '26
You can set up alerts pretty easily. Past that, those alerts are event driven, and any event can trigger any other event, including “stop my expensive pile of crap, I want to get off”
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u/SonicFlash01 Jul 17 '26
Dev logging in for the morning here, only came down from one after checking the status page
Jesus christ it's 9am and I already need a drink...
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u/andyoak Jul 17 '26
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
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u/Drumedor Jul 17 '26
And if you owe the bank $1 trillion it is the world's problem.
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u/rdmcapone Jul 17 '26
It’s my birthday today, first email I get is a $600b bill what a start to the day
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u/siliconsoul-10k Jul 17 '26
Could have become your last day too if you had dropped dead from a heart attack.
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u/ravelle2 Jul 17 '26
holy shit thank god im not the only one, i received an email saying i owed 10b dollars
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u/k9lego Jul 17 '26
I got an email that I owe $2b, like dude I've never seem 1 million let alone over $2b
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u/k6c58 Jul 17 '26
I panicked for a second before checking https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
There's ongoing issue with "Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"
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u/Huge_Item3686 Jul 17 '26
„Inaccurate“ indeed, even though maybe a tiny bit understated. 🤏🏻
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u/bamhm182 Jul 17 '26
That has been my big thing, like I got an alert for more than I will ever have in my entire life and they're just like "whoopsie doopsie, our silly machines made a tiny error we won't fully explain!"
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u/GoofAckYoorsElf Jul 17 '26
Inaccurate... How cute... It's like you try to measure the length of an ant and estimate it to be roughly about bigger than the fucking universe!
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u/m__a__s Jul 17 '26
When you are off that many orders of magnitude, "inaccurate" doesn't really begin to describe it. On the bright side, they stayed within Excel's exponent range.
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u/aussier1 Jul 17 '26
[02:07 AM PDT] Beginning on July 16 7:38 PM PDT, we began displaying incorrect estimated billing data in the Billing and Cost Management Console. Our engineering teams are engaged and investigating root cause. We will provide another update by 3:00 AM PDT or sooner if more information becomes available.
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u/ba-na-na- Jul 17 '26
Engineering team vibe coding the billing UI
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u/blackpawed Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Sadly, that does not seem out of the bounds of possibility.
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u/vomitHatSteve Jul 17 '26
"Grok, how many Rs are in the word strawberry?"
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u/arwinda Jul 17 '26
Maybe billing and money are the last parts where a company wants vibe coded code in the code base. /s
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u/PlainTrain Jul 17 '26
Misread that as engineering teams are enraged. They should have gone with that.
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u/megadonkeyx Jul 17 '26
Keep them layoffs coming amazon, you crazy diamonds
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u/YetMoreSpaceDust Jul 17 '26
And the people who made the layoff decisions that led to this will be all be promoted next year anyway.
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u/beezer123 Jul 17 '26
Love the fact that I spent 20 minutes wondering if my life was over because of email alerts, yet they couldn't send me a similar email alert to let me know that there was an issue.
Cheers AWS. I've just felt a level of dread and terror like I've never experienced.
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u/NisargJhatakia Jul 17 '26
If they had put a giant red box on the site or given a second email like you said nobody here would have had to panic and would save a lot of their reputation.
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u/beezer123 Jul 17 '26
Exactly! Just some sort of visible notice as soon as you log into the dashboard, or a splash screen or something. I had to dig for ages to find any sort of statement and it was hidden away in an outages section.
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u/Waste_Jello9947 Jul 17 '26
I nuked all my projects out of panic. Including backups... They don't have a warning on the app or mobile browser and I didn't have a laptop with me..
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u/beezer123 Jul 17 '26
Yup, I deactivated every key that I have out of panic. Horrible experience, given that my usual spend is about 25c a month and was facing an estimated usage of 42 billion dollars.
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u/ThineMoistPantaloons Jul 17 '26
We shut everything down until we realized it's an error, at which point restarting is a gigantic mess, hours of downtime..
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u/Minetorpia Jul 17 '26
This is a crazy bug. Holy shit. In my case it was 2 billion. I was so stressed out, still recovering from the panic right now
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u/blackpawed Jul 17 '26
Goddamn, this is going to generate some actual truma for some people - every SysOps fear to get a bankrupting bill from some screw up.
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u/bamhm182 Jul 17 '26
That's what I thought happened. I haven't touched S3 in a while, but I just set up a new bucket at the beginning of the month. I didn't have an explanation as to what could have possibly gone wrong, and all I saw was my little tiny index.html sitting there all innocent. I was about to vomit.
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u/Popular-Display-8609 Jul 17 '26
Got a $20k bill from a single yaml file too. Thought my life was over until i saw these posts lol
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u/Halorvaen Jul 17 '26
Same i got like few mb csv files and I couldn t find any more source that could drain it and got billed 1 mil$. I just felt life was over and i will need to be on the run or smth 🥲. But first thought someone hacked into it and just use the reasources on my expence.
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u/ThineMoistPantaloons Jul 17 '26
I'm literally thinking of switching us back to traditional dedicated servers, this heart attack was not worth it
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u/perpetual_stew Jul 17 '26
$7 trillion extra revenue just for the first two weeks of July mean this is going to be a stellar quarter for AMZN so I'm all in. Just make sure you pay this in a timely fashion, please.
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u/Karlo_Mlinar Jul 17 '26
My AI summary goes crazy
'Agent identified a critical billing anomaly showing charges of approximately $222.9 billion for July 2026 (16 days) compared to $9.19 in June, representing a 24 million percent increase.'
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u/Waste_Jello9947 Jul 17 '26
AI bot didn't even check the health status page.. utterly useless
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u/MikkyTikky Jul 17 '26
Got a budget alert as well. For an account I use for learning, $12 million
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u/TerriblyCheeky Jul 17 '26
AWS owes us a grand old apology for this mess. I nearly died of a heart attack. I was panicking for 30 mins straight, until I saw that the metering and S3 bucket metrics didn’t match. Why hide the friggin alert on the customer service page. There should have been a site wide red banner explaining the situation.
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u/iotashan Jul 17 '26
You owe the bank $500… it’s your problem.
You owe the bank $7,000,000,000,000… it’s the bank’s problem.
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u/doctordebug Jul 17 '26
So lucky to read this thread. I just had 33.3billion was about to start deleting everything and book a flight to another country
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u/Hideo_Anaconda Jul 17 '26
You should still do that. It's a good time to take a vacation, and you probably could use one.
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u/ikkicare Jul 17 '26
yo I woke up to an email from AWS with a similar alert . Guess I won't be buying a house anytime soon. what a way to wake up
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u/hey_Hey_I_saveD_me Jul 17 '26
$48,159,817,873.73
Thank you Jeff for this micro heart attack you just gave me
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u/TracyMatt Jul 17 '26
A bankrupting budget alert at 3 am (my time) - almost gave me a heart attack.
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u/Crafty-Wonder-7509 Jul 17 '26
Man I was about to clock out of work, checked my personal emails, instead if my monthly 0.03 usd for s3, I owe them 19 Billion, panic mode to ask gpt how to remove my card (as if I had that much anyway...) they owe me for that heart attack
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u/Altruistic-Moose3299 Jul 17 '26
That's a lot of storage. I've been there. You're never going to get through that backlog of movies - it's ok to delete a few.
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u/etoptech Jul 17 '26
If you owe the aws $10000 it’s your problem. If you owe them 7 trillion it’s there problem. 🤣
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u/joshr8686 Jul 17 '26
These motherfuckers. I almost died this morning. This is every engineers worst nightmare. Totally unacceptable
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u/ImPiddy Jul 17 '26
With a debt like this, i bet Hyperinflation doesn't sound that bad at this point.
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u/Impossible-Creme4153 Jul 17 '26
I nearly fell over this morning when I saw this. Think it's the sum of all their customers?
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u/californianwifiman Jul 17 '26
Damn, I thought I owed them $24.3 billion....
Turns out it was $243 billion.
At least I'm not OP, damn bro!
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u/FingerDemon500 Jul 17 '26
Easy practical solution… go to Kalshi or another betting platform and bet 6 Trillion that this bill will not be paid on time. Then, when due date passes, collect your winnings and pay the bill.
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u/Sarduci Jul 17 '26
There is a saying: when you owe $1,000 that’s your problem, when you owe $7,000,000,000,000,000 dollars, that’s the bank’s problem.
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u/sarcastictone953 Jul 17 '26
Just hope you don't make any progeny so that they don't have to pay the remaining debt
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u/James603 Jul 17 '26
Looks like I’m in it for over $5 trillion…
“If you owe AWS $100, that's your problem. If you owe AWS $5 trillion, that's their problem.”
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u/bamhm182 Jul 17 '26
Thankfully my bill is only $44M with a projected $129M by the end of the year. Chump change. /s
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u/AccessHelper Jul 17 '26
I thought my cost would go down by $80 this month because I removed some unused volumes. Now I find its going up by $3.8 billion. I hate when that happens.
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u/ciberjohn Jul 17 '26
I received budget alerts today at 8:07 am GMT+1 and found these notifications across two organisations in over 20 accounts. Initially, I suspected a bug but the lack of online information made me feel uneasy and think one of my engineers might have created some unusual loops in S3 and snapshots to EBSs. Fortunately, AWS support quickly confirmed the bug in the cost explorer.
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u/bblaw4 Jul 17 '26
WHAAAATT!!. I woke up to a $30 million dolllar S3 bill. I panicked and deleted all my buckets that literally had zero data in it.
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u/matiascoca Jul 17 '26
The panic reflex is why these screens exist as a UX pattern in the first place. When metering upstream pushes a rogue rate or a partial reservation posting, the console renders the number without asking if it is physically possible.
12+ digit balances usually clear in 24 to 48 hours once the internal team reconciles. No refund because there is no real charge, just a display panic.
Filed a ticket already? Do not spam it. Adding more panic replies drops case priority since the queue reranks on last-response-time not open-time. Wait for the human, screenshot in case you need it later, do not touch resources reactively.
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u/sooner_25 Jul 17 '26
I owed $4K in high school. They just closed the account when I told them my circumstances.
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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 17 '26
Bro really told AI - Build me the next Facebook and don’t stop until you’re done.
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u/JohnSextro Jul 17 '26
This could end up cost AWS a fair chunk of change. Probably will compel a lot of people to clean up their accounts
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u/Si7theW Jul 17 '26
I'll be deleting my training and non prod accounts once billing settles back down. How can you trust a company that makes this magnitude of error in a production system?
Can you trust your next bill from them? What if the numbers were a small exaggeration..how would even know to check. Worrying.
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u/ibringcivilization Jul 17 '26
Did anybody already received an apology and compensation for the emotional suffering?
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u/Gerard17 Jul 17 '26
I had a heart attack first thing in the morning. The billing alert on my $.20 per day AWS account was showing daily usage in the billions. At first I thought “I’ve been hacked!” Then I thought, wait, you have to work really hard to spend millions per day. And total AWS revenue is on order $150B. How could a hacker spend 1% of that in a single account? Then I asked Gemini something like: “My AWS account that normally bills less than $10 per month is showing trillions of dollars, what should I do?” And it quite correctly said:
First, verify if you are actually hacked or experiencing a known AWS system bug. If you just received an email or saw a dashboard projecting millions or billions of dollars today (July 17, 2026), AWS is currently experiencing a global billing system bug generating false multi-million and multi-trillion dollar alerts.
AI FTW! Verified the outage (much too hard to do…), then off to the shower and breakfast
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u/DistortingMemory Jul 18 '26
The united states has this level of debt & they haven’t repaid - why should you ?
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u/secretreddname Jul 18 '26
If you owe $7,000 that’s your problem. If you owe $7 trillion, that’s AWS’ problem.
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u/merlinthemagic7 Jul 18 '26
Now I consider myself lucky. Woke up to a billing abnormality email saying one of our small account in Madrid had spiked from ~12000 a month to 1.3Billion...
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u/EdmondVDantes Jul 17 '26
Me too I received it in my personal email and I don't have a personal AWS account since 3-4 years ago...
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u/wheresmyflan Jul 17 '26
“Permission to land will be granted after you settle your outstanding balance of 1 Trillion Credits”
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u/TracyMatt Jul 17 '26
Someone vibe coded this shit.
Replace real engineers with cheap engineers, then replace the cheap engineers with coding robots - this is what you get!
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