Billing on Ec2 instance for a particular time

Hi

in this scenario where the customer runs an On-Demand Amazon Linux EC2 instance for 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds: The customer will be billed for a minimum of 60 seconds, not for the entire duration (3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds).

Answer: 3 hours, 5 minutes

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/?nc1=h_ls

EC2 per-second billing removes the cost of unused minutes and seconds from your bill. Focus on improving your applications instead of maximizing hourly usage, especially for instances running over irregular time periods such as dev/testing, data processing, analytics, batch processing, and gaming applications.

EC2 usage is billed in one-second increments, with a minimum of 60 seconds. Similarly, provisioned storage for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes is billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum. Per-second billing is available for Amazon Linux, Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu Pro instances across all Regions and AZs and is applicable across all EC2 purchase models.

EC2 is charged in 1-second increments. Therefore, the answer is B. 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds.

Minimum of 60 seconds means that if the usage time is less than 60 seconds, you will be charged for 60 seconds. This question is for 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 6 seconds, and since more than 60 seconds are used, it is calculated in 1-second increments. The following FAQs may be helpful.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/?nc1=h_ls

Q: How will my monthly bill show per-second versus per-hour? Although EC2 charges in your monthly bill will now be calculated based on a per second basis, for consistency, the monthly EC2 bill will show cumulative usage for each instance that ran in a given month in decimal hours. For example, an instance running for 1 hour 10 minutes and 4 seconds would look like 1.1677. Read this blog for an example of the detailed billing report.