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I understand your concern about your AWS credit balance and the bill you received. When you initially sign up for AWS, you may receive credits (like the $200 you mentioned), but these credits can be consumed by the AWS services you use.
To understand what happened to your credit and why you received an $89 bill, you should:
- Check your AWS Billing Dashboard:
- Sign in to the AWS Management Console
- Open the AWS Billing console
- In the navigation pane, choose "Bills"
- Look for "Total Discounts" under the "Credits, Total Discounts and Tax Invoices" section
- Use AWS Cost Explorer to see where your credits were used:
- Open Cost Explorer
- Go to Reports
- Use the "Monthly cost by service" report
- Select Dimension = Cost Category
- Then select Charge Type = Credit
- Check for resources that might be consuming your credits without your awareness:
- NAT Gateways (not included in Free Tier and can be expensive)
- EC2 instances larger than Free Tier eligible types
- Resources running in multiple regions
- Elastic IP addresses not attached to running instances
- Stopped (but not terminated) EC2 instances that still incur charges for EBS volumes
If after checking these areas you still can't locate where your credits were used or why you received the bill, I recommend contacting AWS Support directly, by opening a case in your Support Center, as they can provide account-specific details about your credit usage and billing: https://go.aws/support-center.
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Account and Billing Support. | AWS re:Post
Billing AWS Free Trial 120$ | AWS re:Post
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