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AWS BILLING BUG CHARGES CUSTOMERS BILLIONS

Amazon Web Services is investigating a widespread billing error that has generated false charges exceeding $3 billion for some customers. Multiple users report receiving inflated forecasts despite minimal or no recent AWS usage.

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A bug in AWS has caused some customers' bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars

"The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges," Amazon said.

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