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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by binaryturtle on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:40AM (#48946669)
I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that. There may be a person out there that may be dead as a result.

It's entirely irresponsible of Amazon to even display such values to the user.

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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by petercooper on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:43AM (#48947333)
Ah, there'll be something in the TOS absolving them of responsibility.
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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by Xunjin on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:00AM (#48947493)
Well... That depends on the country jurisdiction. And any ToS is bounded by law and can be questioned.
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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by isodev on Friday July 17, 2026 @12:40PM (#48949356)
Maybe AWS is also “for entertainment purposes only”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/copilot-is-for-entertainme...

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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by Hamuko on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:29AM (#48947173)
Reminds me of the time a Robinhood user killed themselves after Robinhood erroneously showed their account balance at -$730k.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55990461

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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by noisy_boy on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:52AM (#48947423)
In that case, they settled with Robinhood and FINRA fined Robinhood 70 million dollars.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/robinhood-lawsui...

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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by dymk on Friday July 17, 2026 @01:04PM (#48949632)
"They" being the family; Robinhood couldn't settle with the guy who was wronged because he, ya know, killed himself first
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Re:Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of ... by pedrosousa on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:01AM (#48979007)
I legit had a small panic attack due to this.

I'm not a devops but we are running some s3 buckets. When I saw the number I couldn't even comprehend and thought we had been hacked.

I feel like this is such a bad mistake from AWS and we will never be compensated for it.

Put me off having anything on AWS from now on.

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