Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

Ask for some leniency. Let your account rep know about your budget difficulties and ask if you can make good faith payments of a few billion per month until you get back on your feet. Probably the safest bet is to pay your bill in full to stay in good standing and then get refunded the difference when they revise it down. 117 billion us dollars. Eat that GDP of Kuwait! But yes I have never scrambled so hard to try to get on the phone with someone at AWS in my life. Terrifying 10 minutes until I found that banner on the support page. It should be front and center on the dash, not hidden away. And in yellow. same here, I am still in shock. took me 10 minutes to find the 'operational issue' message in the dashboard. longest 10 minutes of my life. No you can't. Spending limits imply realtime billing backend flows and they also imply deleting all your data so that you don't pay for storage. I'm disappointed I only got a bill for $28M, need to work harder on burning money. Seriously though I thought my life flashed before me As the famous saying goes: If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.