Service impact: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - AWS Outage

Summary

We have identified the root cause and mitigated the underlying issue causing incorrect estimated cost and usage data to be displayed in the Billing and Cost Management Console, and Cost and Usage Reports. We have begun backfilling data to correct cost data for all customers. We expect some customers to begin seeing recovery within the next three hours, and full recovery for all customers by July 18 12:00 PM PDT. Until the backfill is complete, some customers may still see incorrect cost and usag

Impact

We have identified the root cause and mitigated the underlying issue causing incorrect estimated cost and usage data to be displayed in the Billing and Cost Management Console, and Cost and Usage Reports. We have begun backfilling data to correct cost data for all customers. We expect some customers to begin seeing recovery within the next three hours, and full recovery for all customers by July 18 12:00 PM PDT. Until the backfill is complete, some customers may still see incorrect cost and usag

Lessons Learned

⚠AWS has experienced 65 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 735 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.