Why am I being charged too much for Amazon Lightsail?

Short description

Here are a few reasons why you might have incurred unexpected charges with your Amazon Lightsail plan:

• You signed up for the Lightsail plan that comes with the one-month free trial, but the free trial expired.
• You signed up for a more expensive Lightsail plan than you meant to.
• You signed up for Lightsail without meaning to.
• You exceeded your monthly data transfer allowance.

In either of these cases, delete your Lightsail instance and any associated snapshots to stop charges from accruing.

Resolution

Sign in to the Lightsail console, and check each resource tab to see if you have any running resources. Running resources will be under the Instances, Databases, Networking, Storage, or Snapshots tabs.

If you don't need a particular resource, choose the menu icon (⋮) next to the resource name, and then choose Delete.

For snapshots, expand the list of snapshots, choose the menu icon (⋮) for each snapshot, and then choose Delete.

Note: Lightsail instance snapshots cost less per hour than running instances. Also, you can use snapshots to relaunch an identical instance later on. If you want to save your work, consider creating or retaining snapshots as a backup.

After you delete all your Lightsail resources, no more Lightsail charges accrue.

Related information

Lightsail pricing

How do I shut down my Amazon Lightsail resources?