Why am I charged too much for Amazon Lightsail?

Short description

Here are a few reasons why you might incur unexpected charges with your Lightsail plan:

• You signed up for the Lightsail plan that comes with the one-month free trial, but the trial expired.
• You signed up for a more expensive Lightsail plan than you meant to.
• You exceeded your monthly data transfer allowance.

In any of these cases, delete your Lightsail instance and any associated snapshots to stop charges for those instances.

Resolution

1. Sign in to the Lightsail console.
2. Check each tab to see if you have any running resources. Resources are under the Instances, Databases, Networking, Storage, or Snapshots tabs.
3. If you don't need a particular resource, then choose the menu icon (⋮) next to the resource name.
4. Choose Delete.
5. 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 active instances. Because you can use snapshots to relaunch an identical instance, it's a best practice to create or retain snapshots as a backup.

Related information

Lightsail pricing

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