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

AWS Budgets Alert: $3 Billion Forecast

I receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is $5. Forecasted amount is listed as $3,005,575,870.47. (Yepp, right, that's 3 billion dollars.)

I haven't even used AWS actively in the last year, but AWS console lists the amount as stated above. No feedback from AWS support yet, but the support AI chat bot says: "Die perfekt gleichmäßigen Tageskosten seit dem 1. Juli deuten stark auf einen Abrechnungs- oder Messfehler hin." ("The perfectly consistent daily costs since July 1 strongly suggest a billing or metering error.") Bot created a support ticket (or at least told me so).

Anyone Else Seeing This?

Anyone else seeing something like this? Already disabled all AWS IAM roles and deleted all other AWS resources I know of. AWS login not hacked as far as I can tell. But owing Amazon 3 billion dollars is a bit of a concern. Any ideas?

My estimate was only $21M (vs ~$0.01 average bill). Wish I had checked status sooner and saved myself the panic!

My Process

My process went:

1. Verify email is not phishing (it was)
2. Login to console and check dashboard (same amount)
3. Attempt to understand cost (cost management kept contradicting itself)
4. Try to log support ticket and only on that part did I notice the status notification

At least I can breathe again now! Scared me even though it was obviously a bug once I stopped to consider the magnitude ($bn).

Very unfriendly that they don't allow for hard spend caps; closed my mostly dormant personal account as a result.