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Comment by rucury | Hacker News Reader

Uhh class action incoming? $34,909,930,575.09 over here.

I hope they send out some free credits at least. I imagine quite a few people got a real fucking scare today. They haven't even sent out any corrections yet.

This is probably going to push me to completely close a couple of AWS accounts I setup when doing training courses so I could get certified (mandatory requirement from my work).

I'm not currently running anything and have no plans to at the moment. I've always had a mild dread that I'll suddenly get a bill for more than $0.00.

If AWS can goof in a way that causes obviously massive bills (like today), what's to say they can't goof in more subtle ways and start charging small additional amounts that many people may not notice and just pay it.

Excellent point!

I remember seeing a story shared by AMS RDS on linked-in that basically said... "Now with predictable pricing"

Huh?

What would your damages be? They’re not actually going to charge your credit card for 34 billion.

I could see someone sadly taking their own life over this.

I mean, emotional damages are a thing right?

Not really in the way the media would have you believe.

Like “I was scared for a couple minutes on a Friday morning until I saw the vendor status page” is orders of magnitude away from the bar here.

I wonder how many people died of heart attack when they saw this.

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