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WTF?! Amazon has a reputation for squeezing customers for all they've got, but increasing billing prices from a couple of cents to $1.5 trillion really shows how Jeff Bezos got so rich. Thankfully, though, this was just an error by Amazon Web Services, but it still caused one customer's soul to leave their body, in their own words.
Bill Radjewski, who runs CollegeFootballData.com, received the sort of email most of us would rather not receive last week: an AWS alert informing him that he had accrued $1.5 billion in usage fees. Should he manage to win several lotteries and somehow pay it, he was still expected to face a $3 billion bill on August 1.
During the six years he'd been with AWS, his account had never exceeded $0.02 – most months his bill was just $0.01.
