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The $500M Bill Was Always Going to Happen

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Last July, a unit conversion error in Cost Explorer started showing customers bills in the billions, some in the trillions. A student in Delhi watched a $1.28 monthly bill turn into $10.9 billion. Someone's normal five-dollar month became $1.7 billion. Nobody was actually charged. It was bytes read…

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  1. 2026-09-24 19:59 · DEV Community — AI
    The $500M Bill Was Always Going to Happen

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