An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One Reddit user whose charges totalled $0.19 last month received an estimated bill of nearly $2.5 billion. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 17 July 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 18 July 2026
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