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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 continue to use AWS services, and all resources on your account are then billed at On-Demand rates.
If you want to stop using AWS services, you must take additional actions to avoid charges.
Continue to use AWS services
To view your monthly charges and review the resources that you use monthly, complete the following steps:
- Open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
- In the navigation pane, choose Bills.
- For Date, choose a month.
- To decide what resources that you want to keep, check AWS Pricing. Any resources you keep will be charged at On-Demand rates.
Note: You can use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your monthly bill after the AWS Free Tier expires.
Stop your use of AWS services
To avoid further charges, remove the active resources that you no longer need. Then, you can close your account.
Note: If you don't have active resources or subscriptions, then you can keep your account active without being billed.
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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.
replied 3 years ago
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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?
replied 3 years ago
I have multiple services in use. How do i determine which one is the free one?
replied 3 years ago
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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?
replied 3 years ago
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?
replied 3 years ago
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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
replied 3 years ago
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