Most of us sense we\u2019re in an affordability crisis these days. If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re helpless and complacent at the checkstand even when it feels like you\u2019re being mugged. But being billed for billions\u2014or even trillions\u2014more than you owe on web hosting would snap anyone out of their affordability daze.<\/p>\n
Amazon Web Services users around the world have noticed one such glitch:<\/p>\n
I just saw $1.5 trillion on my AWS bill and my soul left my body https:\/\/t.co\/EgfQKJTHVl<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/L0gXYbDio7<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Bharath (@Bharath_uwu) July 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Bharath, an X user based in India, showed off what looks like a $1,499,659,180,107 cost statement and writes, \u201cmy soul left my body.\u201d That statement says Bharath\u2019s total is up by 744,728,201,771% this month, which means, by my math, the previous month\u2019s bill was about $200.<\/p>\n According to the Guardian<\/a>, a marketer named \u00a0Dan Harvey, working for an educational nonprofit<\/a> in the U.K. said he \u201calmost had a heart attack\u201d after seeing a bill climb from 43 cents last month to $7.8 billion this month\u2014and the month wasn\u2019t even over. Harvey added to the Guardian that he had to get on the phone with tech support and \u201chave a real dig around,\u201d to get to the bottom of things. Amazon did not apparently return the Guardian\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n