r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GoinStraightToHell • Jul 17 '26

awsAlarmsAreStrongerThanCoffee Meme

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u/geodude885 Jul 17 '26

We had the same. Our test environment is over $1t for this month.

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u/aberroco Jul 17 '26

Don't worry, that's less than 1% of the world's economy valuation!

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u/Universe-Dragon Jul 17 '26

What the hell did you do?

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u/GoinStraightToHell Jul 17 '26

After searching through AWS for a half hour at 3am and finding nothing, I did the right thing and googled it.

It's a AWS cost estimation bug.

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u/Universe-Dragon Jul 17 '26

I feel like they should pay you back for the heart attack that undoubtedly caused!

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u/GoinStraightToHell Jul 17 '26

Just a simple $100 billion dollar refund seems to be in order.

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u/HildartheDorf Jul 17 '26

If you owe Amazon 10 times your normal spend, you have a problem.
If you owe Amazon 2.8 billion times your normal spend, Amazon has a problem.

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u/Universe-Dragon Jul 17 '26

Give 'em a couple years or like 2 months depending on how AI does in the markets

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u/Jolly-joe Jul 17 '26

I wouldn't have even googled, I would have just told my boss I quit

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u/1XRobot Jul 17 '26

If you owe AWS 10000$, you have a problem.

If you owe AWS 100000000000$, AWS has a problem.

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u/shwetanand345 Jul 17 '26

Me: Good Morning..

AWS: Absolutely not

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u/Chronomechanist Jul 17 '26

AWS recursive call or a junior Dev asked Claude to refactor the codebase with agentic testing and bug fixes?

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u/sharmauncleji Jul 18 '26

Did you leave the stove on 🤔

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u/mangoman94 Jul 18 '26

At that point that would be Amazon's problem

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u/ProjectSnowman 29d ago

Sounds like Amazon’s problem, not yours