What do I need to know if my AWS Free Tier period is expiring?
I received an email that says that the AWS Free Tier period for my AWS account is expiring.
Resolution
When your AWS Free Tier period expires, you can take one of the following actions:
- If you continue to use AWS services, then all resources on your account are billed at On-Demand rates.
- If you stop your use of AWS services, then you must take additional actions to avoid charges.
Continue to use AWS services
First, review the resources that you use on a monthly basis. To view your monthly charges, complete the following steps:
- Open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
- In the navigation pane, choose Bills.
- For Date, choose a month.
Then, check the AWS Pricing for your resources to decide what to keep. To continue to use the resources on your account with On-Demand rates, you don't need to take further action.
You can use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your monthly bill after the AWS Free Tier expires.
Stop your use of AWS services
If you don't want to incur charges, complete the following steps:
- Remove the active resources that you no longer need.
- (Optional) Close your account.
Note: If you have no active resources or subscriptions, then you can keep your account active without being billed.
Related information
You probably don't need to send this email to people who have had no active resources and haven't logged in for over a year. I probably spent 15 minutes just confirming that I have 0 active resources to ensure I won't be charged.
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I recently got an email that my free tier is ending soon (I activated S3 almost a year ago for a tutorial project). I logged in and removed all services and all resources from all regions. Using Tag Editor I confirmed there are no active resources on my account, but under Billing there was still S3 visible in one region. Your support pages suggest that it may take up to 24 hours for that list to update.
I checked again today to make sure I wont get charged. The Tag Editor still returns no results for active resources (All regions, all supported resource types), but now, under Billing (Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL charges by service), I see multiple services that I never selected or had visible yesterday: CodeArtifact, Data Transfer, Key Management Service, Secrets Manager, Simple Notification Service, Simple Queue Service, Simple Storage Service and Systems Manager. All of them have all available regions under them, except for S3 which has only one region (same as it was yesterday).
What is going on? Am I going to get charged for that? When I open the consoles for those services there is no items in a list so I guess they are not active afterall??? I have no experience with AWS, and this is just confusing. Can someone please explain what is going on?
I have multiple services in use. How do i determine which one is the free one?
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Hello! I terminated all the services I have been using yet I received a bill due on May. It says its due EC2 and RDS but I terminated all instances of RDS and EC2 and by the way where I can seek support through email from AWS team?
I want to continue running an existing Free-Tier resource with the 3 year uprfont rate. How can I do this without deleting the instance?
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I am an IAM user with read-only permission when I go to the billing ->credits page it automatically reloads infinity
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