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Amazon Web Services suffered a massive billing glitch that sent customers soaring into astronomical charges—up to $1.5 trillion for some—turning routine cloud bills into panic-inducing nightmares worldwide. From charities to students, users saw bills skyrocketing by hundreds of thousands to billions of percent, with one UK user nearly having a heart attack and another claiming their soul left their body. The culprit? A bug in AWS’s estimated billing system, which was quickly shut down as engineers scrambled to fix it—though more wild charges kept appearing during the chaos. Amazon apologized and is now working to correct all affected accounts, a stark reminder of how fragile our digital infrastructure can be when a single bug goes haywire.

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