Technology17 Jul 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars

Some Amazon cloud customers woke up on Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazo…

Some Amazon cloud customers woke up on Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazon confirmed on Friday that it’s trying to resolve a bug in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers “owed” millions or billions in cloud computing costs. In an update on its status page , Amazon said it began seeing inaccurate billing data as of late Thursday. But by Friday morning, the com…

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