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AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees
An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.
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A billing system error at Amazon Web Services mistakenly indicated that some customers owed the company billions in fees. One affected user, Bill Radjewski of CollegeFootballData.com, received an email showing over $1.5 billion in usage charges and an August 1 bill projected to exceed $3 billion.
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