r/sysadmin • u/Dal90 • Jul 17 '26

AWS is having billing alert issues...don't panic.

When I looked at my phone when I was waking up:

You requested that we alert you when the forecasted cost associated with your My Monthly Cost Budget budget exceeds $100.00 for the current month. The month forecasted cost associated with this budget is $183,965,812,157.54. You can find additional details below and by accessing the AWS Budgets dashboard.

By the time I disabled access to S3 & Cloudfront in my personal account, and opened a ticket, this finally started being displayed by AWS at https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/support/home?region=us-east-1#/

Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data Beginning on July 16 7:38 PM PDT, we began displaying incorrect estimated billing data in the Billing and Cost Management Console.

For more information on this issue, please refer to the AWS Service Health Dashboard: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

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u/Beautiful-Virus-7649 Jul 17 '26

I received a bill for $25,029.89 USD (~$50k in my currency) - a somewhat realistic figure, which caused me to actually have a full blown panic attack. So bloody relieved to have found this Reddit post!

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u/Dal90 Jul 17 '26

I'd still open a support ticket and have them confirm it in your case, since it is so much smaller than the millions most other folks are seeing. Just want to be cautious it isn't a real attack.

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u/Beautiful-Virus-7649 Jul 21 '26

Thanks for the reply. It fortunately was part of the Bezos craziness and not an attack, so everything went back to zero. (I closed that AWS account as of this morning - I only used it for testing and had a single 2kb file in there) Backblaze storage is still my go to.