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Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION by michaelmrose on Friday July 17, 2026 @02:19PM (#48950488)
The way you describe requires somehow counting every bit but somehow discarding most which is obviously nonsense.

This seems statistically invalid insofar as it will tend to overbill potentially by a lot on the minority of cases.

Don't you know how much of the pipe is occupied by a given customers code at any given time or what data is being sent

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Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION by londons_explore on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:24PM (#48951281)
You have to do it when the customer list is too big to keep a counter per customer.
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Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION by fc417fc802 on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:19PM (#48951846)
A probabilistic counter per customer is also a counter per customer. Still, probabilistic billing is an amusing thought though.
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Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION by michaelmrose on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:00PM (#48951675)
No you don't
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