Free tier limit Alert

The email would mention which service is at 85% utilization. Else go to Free Tier in Billing Dashboard. You would find a list of services with it's current and forecasted usage and identify which services are yet running and contributing to usage

Hi,

it must be related to your EC2 instances. You can see here the limits for EC2 Free Tier: https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=*all&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=categories%23compute.

It could be related to EC2:

750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region 750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region or EBS:

30 GB of Amazon EBS: any combination of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic 2,000,000 I/Os (with EBS Magnetic) 1 GB of snapshot storage

You could try to terminate the instance, but for the future I would recommend these guides:

• https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/stop-future-free-tier-charges
• https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/free-tier-charges

Hope it helps ;)

Hi there,

If you think you've stopped all your instances, but still got a notification that you've almost hit your free tier limit for the month, it sounds like something must still be running. You can use your bill to locate which services you've run in which regions that month, to help you locate and stop the charges. Via your Billing Dashboard, navigate to your April bill to see what's been charged for so far:

https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?region=us-east-1#/bills

Once there, take note of not only the services running, but the regions in which they're running. You may have to click the service name to expand to show the regions, or click "Expand All" in the top right.

If you want one on one help with locating the source of the charges, you can reach our Support team via a Basic Support case below. There are email, phone, or chat options - I recommend a phone call for the quickest assistance:

go.aws/support-center

— Chrissy B.

Check for instances in other regions that you may have spun up and forgotten about.

And as others have said, if you have stopped (but not terminated) your instances then you are still being charged for any EBS storage above 30GB. gp3 in us-east-1 is 8c per GB-month, so if all of your projected $3.62 is for EBS then 3.62/0.08 = 45.25GB chargeable, on top of your 30GB free-tier.