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Hello I have a tier free cost account but I recently noticed that there are costs which are not clear what it is and why I have at all. The names are Route 53 $0.50 per Hosted Zone for the first 25 Hosted Zones $0.00 per In-use public IPv4 address per hour for EC2 Free Tier 54.919 Hrs $0.005 per Idle public IPv4 address per hour 84.081 Hrs USD 0.42

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Based on the information you've provided, I can explain the charges you're seeing:

  1. Route 53: The charge of $0.50 is for a hosted zone in Route 53. AWS charges $0.50 per hosted zone for the first 25 hosted zones, and this is not covered under the Free Tier. If you've created a DNS hosted zone for your domain, this is why you're seeing this charge.

  2. Public IPv4 Address Charges: You're seeing two types of IPv4 address charges:

  • Free Tier usage: 54.919 hours of public IPv4 addresses attached to EC2 instances (which is covered under Free Tier)
  • Charged usage: 84.081 hours of "Idle public IPv4 address" at $0.005 per hour, resulting in a $0.42 charge

The "Idle public IPv4 address" charge is likely for one of these reasons:

  • You have an Elastic IP that's not attached to a running EC2 instance
  • You have public IPv4 addresses associated with non-EC2 resources (like RDS with public access, Load Balancers, etc.)

It's important to note that while AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of public IPv4 address usage per month, this only applies to public IPs attached to EC2 instances. Public IPs used by other services or unattached Elastic IPs will incur charges at $0.005 per hour.

To avoid these charges in the future:

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  • Many thanks Gary

  • I can’t take the credit it was the AI’s answer but thanks. Hope that answers your question.

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