AWS Free Tier EC2 Usage - 4Gi Forecast

Question

Hi,

I have a t2.micro instance setup (with 1Gi of RAM) through the AWS free tier and got a notification that my estimated monthly usage would be 4Gi. I've included a screenshot, it's the first row.
![Free Tier forecast](/media/postImages/original/IMgA1uGrcrTH2mZdKjLOMAZQ)

Will this really happen? Is some auto-scaling automatically set up that's increasing the RAM limit?

From my dashboard, the instance is still only at 1Gi of RAM and I do not want to go over this limit to stay within the free tier.

Thanks,
Will

Accepted Answer

Hi,

The notification is not about the RAM, but about [snapshot storage](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html) with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and just 1GB is included on the [AWS Free Tier](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/).

Answer

Ahhh. That explains it.

I see, it says `SnapshotUsage` in the line.

Thanks!

AWS Free Tier EC2 Usage - 4Gi Forecast

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