Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem"
THE SO WHAT
A glitch that spits out $1.5T AWS bills is less about the money and more about trust in automated metering for cloud-scale workloads. If your cost controls depend on alerts and auto-actions tied to estimated billing, add hard sanity checks and human review before those numbers trigger anything irreversible.
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