Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

Per Hacker News, one AWS user received a billing forecast of three billion dollars—despite having a five-dollar budget alert threshold and no significant usage in a year. The AWS support AI bot flagged a potential metering error starting July first. The user has already disabled IAM roles and deleted their AWS resources, with no account breach detected. Whether this is an isolated glitch or signals a broader issue with AWS's billing system remains unclear, but it's a reminder to check those billing alerts.

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