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Lance Ulanoff

'My soul left my body': customers see bills in the billions after AWS billing system goes haywire — but don't go emptying your bank accounts

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  • Amazon's AWS cloud services billing system went wild on Friday
  • Customers saw bills in the trillions
  • AWS apologized and is working on a fix

AWS, the cloud platform that serves millions who use Amazon's servers to run websites and businesses you use every day, just freaked out many of its customers with usage bills that literally went into the trillions.

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