{
  "id": 11493,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/aws-billing-bug-billion-dollar-estimates",
  "title": "An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Cristian Dina",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": "amazon",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-17T18:21:09.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-18T05:10:55.931Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11493",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/aws-billing-bug-billion-dollar-estimates",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}