Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars

Amazon is working to fix a billing bug in AWS that briefly showed some customers enormous, incorrect charges—ranging from millions to billions of dollars—even though the amounts do not reflect actual usage or real charges. Amazon said the issue began appearing late Thursday in its billing portal, and a rollback of a recent change did not immediately solve it. The company says the problem is tied to its billing computation subsystem and is expected to last several more hours. The incident is mainly an operational and reputational issue for Amazon Web Services rather than a direct revenue event, but it could weigh on customer trust in AWS billing reliability in the near term.