One user even reported an AWS bill of $1.5 trillion, as reported by The Guardian. Scary! AWS blames the root cause of the problem as “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem.” Amazon says that the billing estimates “do not reflect actual usage and charges,” and affected don’t have to take any action right now. [Link: Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-web-services-customers-trillion-dollar-bills-global-glitch | the Guardian]

One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees.