Questions tagged with Pricing

I understand that an EC2 instance is only charged if it is on. But does it change if I use "Reserved Capacity"? If I run an EC2 On Demand instance with Reserved Capacity for a few hours a day only, do I get charged any more than the actual instance cost for those hours the machine is on?

Hi everyone! I'd like to understand better the billing composition regardless of AWS Backup on DynamoDB resources since I got an unexpected increase in my billing. I'm aware of AWS Backup billing itself thanks to the [documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/), anyway, when I access the Billing service I can notice an exponential billing pricing in DynamoDB service, on the section `Amazon DynamoDB USE1-TimedBackupStorage-ByteHrs` the description allows me to see that I'll be paying $0.10 per GB-month of storage used for on-demand backup, showing me that I've used 14,247.295 GB-Month (This makes sense with the billing I got) but where my doubt comes from is, **where does all those GB come from?** The last snapshot-size just shows 175.5 GB I've configured my backup plan with the following parameters: ``` { "ruleName": "hourly-basis", "scheduleExpression": "cron(0 * ? * * *)", "startWindowMinutes": 60, "completionWindowMinutes": 180, "lifecycle": { "toDeletedAfterDays": 30 } } ``` I'm also copying snapshots into a second region on `us-west-2` As you can see, I'm handling a schedule expression on an hourly basis backup because of compliance requirements. *Is this enough justification for the high billing?* I'm aware that backups with low RPO are commonly expensive but I just want to be sure that this billing is not higher than it should be because of any wrong Backup configuration. Thanks in advance!

We are a startup based in India and are using AWS for our entire tech stack from a long time. Recently, our EC2 reserved instances expired and we upgraded to Savings plan for them. Our credit card is declining the partial payment amount because it is high for a lump sum amount. The plan already got rejected once due to this. We have applied again. Can we have the total amount divided into smaller parts and get charged via multiple cards? Do we have any other mode of payment like payment via link, bank transfer, cheque etc. to complete this process asap. We are getting charged on the on-demand pricing that is costing us a lot. Any help is highly appreciated.

My developer wants to use MongoDB as a Database for my Video on Demand App. We are startup and trying to save money. My question is: would it be a big difference in price compare to DynamoDB? Does the Database for Video on Demand apps need much resourses? What would you suggest?

**Condition one: ** So let's assume I created two $5/month aws lightsail instance on 5/1. I will only be able to use them for free for around 15 days, right? Because the free plan only contains 750 hours per month. Moreover, at the end of May, which is 5/30, I used 4T traffic on those two instances. Under such circumstances, how much will I be billed for May (only this single month) ? **Condition two: ** So let's assume I create two $5/month aws lightsail instance at the middle of May, which is around 5/15. I used 4T traffic on those two instances during 15 days, how will I be billed at the end of May? Thank you!

Hi, I have AWS credit in my account. The credit will expire soon but we did not used all the amount yet. How can I extend the credit duration ? What is the process ? Thanks for your help,

Hi, I'm looking for a way to get the AWS invoices by API / Transactions / Credit Memo etc Download the PDF via API or get a json document with all the information will be great. How can I achieve this ? Thanks for your help

Hi, I need to get all AWS Public prices in EUR and not in USD. I used the Bulk Price API https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/using-ppslong.html but the prices are all in USD. Any way to get them in EUR ? Thanks for your help

On my bill, I see `$0.672 per On Demand Linux with SQL Std m6i.xlarge Instance Hour` but here https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ I see it's `m6i.xlarge $0.192 4 16 GiB EBS Only Up to 12500 Megabit`

Hi all, If I've previously indexed a collection of say 100 million photos using the IndexFaces API and I want to run a one to many search against that entire collection of indexed photos for every new applicant that comes in to my system, would I just need to run a single SearchFaces API call? Or would I need to run 100 million SearchFaces or CompareFaces API calls? I'm just trying to estimate the pricing on using Rekognition in a facial recognition system and this answer obviously plays a massive factor in the pricing. Thanks!

I have configured CloudWatch Agent to send metrics to Cloudwatch for ABC instance for every 60 Seconds but **I haven't enable detailed monitoring** in ABC instance does AWS charge in this case?

Hi all, I'm working on a project using AWS's free tier, however I'm running into a lot of problems and now thinking what I want to do isn't possible. I'm trying to create an EC2 Instance with Linux. On this, I want to install Docker which I'll use to run Airflow. However, I'm getting warnings that I should have 2 CPUs (not 1) and that I should have at least 4GB memory available (not 1). From what I can tell, there are no EC2 instances I can setup within the free tier that have 2 CPUs and more than 4GB memory. Is this correct? Also, I've noticed that when I try to run Airflow with Docker, my SSH connection eventually breaks, and I can't SSH back on to the EC2 instance (even after rebooting it). I end up just deleting it and creating a new one. Should note that I'm learning as I go. I was really hoping I could run this small scale project using AWS but it's not looking possible.

Hey guys, I've got several questions regarding **Glue 2.0** worker types for AWS Glue Jobs. I have gone through this documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api-jobs-job.html as Im trying to figure out the type and amount of workers I need for my jobs, and the pricing as well, and I still have some questions left. 1. How many DPUs is 1 `Standard` worker type equivalent to? 2. How are resources being sliced by the second executor provided by a single `standard` worker? 3. Whats the difference between having 2 executors (standard) and 1 executor (G.1X)? In what situation should I use one over the other? 4. Assuming 1 Standard Worker = 1 DPU (Question 1 might answer this one too), am I being charge the same as a G.1X worker? 5. Documentation mentions that, while using Glue 2.0, you need to specify a `worker type` and `number of workers`, does this mean that if I am using a `standard` worker type, all workers (and executors) are going to be active in the execution? Docs specify that while using Glue 1.0, you just need to provide a `Max Number` so Im assuming not all of workers are necessarily active here. Really Appreciate the help guys, Regards

my client has around 400 repositories, there are 2 roles for each repository (so around 800 roles), the client has 700 users (so 700 IAM users) that access these repos, on average each user access around 7-8 repos, so each user reach these repos with around 15 different roles. it's unclear to me how the pricing apply.. is my client going to pay for 700 users, or is going to pay for 700 users * 15 average roles = 10,500 ?? thanks.

Does aws free-tier t3.micro servers have a max? Just created a Jenkins controller and a worker agent node, wondering how many agents I can add to the #DevOps ecosystem. I also plan to deploy a Nexus repository and a prometheus/Grafana monitoring server on yet other t3.micro servers. Will I incur a bill?

SageMaker Feature Store is full of questions for me, ever since I started working with it. The thing which is absolutely not clear for me is about integration with Athena/Glue. Since there is no built-in option in FeatureStore to, for instance, get all records, or get records by criteria, I have to use AthenaQuery branched off the FeatureGroup for that purpose. In case if I do something like ```python feature_group = FeatureGroup(name='<...>', sagemaker_session=sagemaker_session) query = feature_group.athena_query() query.run('SELECT * FROM <whatever> LIMIT 1000', output_location='s3://...') query.wait() query.as_dataframe() ``` Will I also be charged for querying Athena? What's about Hive? If yes, then what's the purpose of using FeatureStore? It's API is too poor for implementing continuous training, - I'm instead forced to use at least Athena, and, therefore, pay for the extra service besides I already pay for FeatureStore.

> Rules triggered: $0.15 (per million rules triggered / per million actions executed) Does 'triggered' mean a rule matched? In other words if the rule is a 'select' and it didn't match the WHERE clause, does that count as a 'triggering' in terms of pricing? It takes CPU cycles to process those rules, even if they don't result in a match. It seems wrong to me that would be free.

I have the following question: If I use D-Wave's Quantum Annealer via Amazon Braket and if I also use the D-Wave method qbsolv, since my problem instance of my optimisation problem is too large for the quantum processing unit of D-Wave's machine, how exactly will this be charged? To be more precise: Will this still be charged as a single task, no matter how many subproblems qbsolv generates, or will every created subproblem be charged as a single task by Amazon Braket? I will call the method qbsolv only once. Thanks in advance.

How are DDoS costs handled on regional API Gateway public endpoints? In the event of DDoS would there be a charge for the additional caching?

Hello, Is there an easy way to check the cost of individual S3 buckets? I have multiple S3 buckets with video content in it. I also have cloudfront that accesses the video content from those s3 buckets. So, ideally I would want to know all price for outgoing data plus price for cloudfront for each time a video is watched.

I am currently using an EC2 instance (t3.xlarge) with on-demand pricing. How can I switch the instance to spot pricing, without creating a new instance?

When an event is sent to an API Destination, does the connection associated with the API Destination do 1 read from AWS Secrets Manager. So if 10000 events are sent to an API destination, would that cost $0.05 + $0.40c for AWS Secrets Manager per month? Thanks

Hi all, We are evaluating the use of the latest version of AWS Inspector. I've a question regarding pricing in a multiple-accounts organization with a delegated administrator for AWS Inspector. In this case Where are the costs for the vulnerability scanning (ec2 and ecr) are allocated to. each single account is going to pay for its scanned resources or the delegated administrator account is going to pay for all ? Kind Regards Peter

Last month, AWS [announced](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansion-100-gb-from-regions-and-1-tb-from-amazon-cloudfront-per-month/) an expansion of the data transfer free tier for CloudFront to 1TB/month and removed the restriction to the free tier being in the first 12 months after signup. Will the [pricing for AWS Amplify](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/) change to account for this difference? AWS Amplify users are now at quite a pricing disadvantage as compared to using the unbundled versions of the underlying AWS services.

While launching a new ec2 instance; there is an option to reduce the number of CPUs and threads. I need to find out what will be the pricing for ec2 then? e.g. I am creating an instance type a1.4xlarge (16, 32 GiB) which will cost $0.408 on-demand. But if i reduce the CPUs to let's say 12 or 8 with same 32 GiB memory; then what will be the pricing?

Does using ec2, S3, ALB and other services included in the outposts; cost the same as using them on cloud? or is there a difference of pricing for services running on outposts? e.g. ec2 instance type c5.xlarge costs around $0.17 per hour on demand. So if i create the same instance type on outposts; will i be getting the same pricing or not? Tag: AWS Outposts rack

I imagine the checking of signed URLs is more computationally expensive for AWS, but I can't see how much more it costs anywhere.

Hi there, I am planning on uploading a couple of hundreds TB file server data for archival into Glacier Deep Archive. I understand that there is a minimum object size von 128kb for any of the glacier storage classes. Additionally I found in the documentation there a 8kb and 32kb metadata will be created for every object stored in Glacier. Having that informationen, I decided to store smaller files in IA or one zone IA. I could not find any information in the AWS sites itself about a minimum object size on IA as well which then would lead me avoid this storage class as well. But what is confusing me is that a couple of external websites explaining the pricing of S3 do claim that there actually is a 128kb minimum object size on IA as well. Is that just outdated information? Or in other words: Beyond Glacier, is there any minimum object size (billing wise). Thanks Markus

Are there any plans to permit the reservation of t4g-class instance types on RDS? Currently, t4g is omitted from the reservation pricing page, at least for MySQL in us-east-1: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/pricing/?pg=pr&loc=2 Both the AWS web console and direct usage of the API show no offerings for db.t4g: ``` $ aws --output=json rds describe-reserved-db-instances-offerings --db-instance-class=db.t4g.medium { "ReservedDBInstancesOfferings": [] } ```

Good day! I just launched an instance with the "Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Base" AMI. The system tells me windows was activated using the organization? Does that mean Windows is free in EC2?(forever or only a trial period?) Or am I missing something? Thanks and have a great day!

Hi, i have an EC2 t3.micro (free tier elegible in Stockolm), but on my billing dashboard appears a charge related to the CPU credits. The hourly usage appears but at zero euros. So, now I think I understand the cpu usage credits and the baseline: i get the instance for free but if i spend all my cpu credits (bc i was doing a cpu intensive task) i have to pay for the credits, even at free tier? Can't i have a above baseline on the free tier actually for free? Would be nice to know since i'm a newbie. Thanks.

Customer who rarely uses a DDB table. Something along the lines of less then 1000 read or writes per month. Theoretically, this could be interesting for on-demand pricing. However, it is still unclear whether we bill for 1M requests minimum or not. Do you get billed per actual number of read/write requests, or by block of 1M? Here the difference would be (with 1000 reads and 100 writes): - 1M block: $1.50 (0.25 per 1M read + 1.25 per 1M write) - #req : $0.01 (0.00025 per 1000 read + 0.000125 per 100 write) EDIT: if you take the PROVISIONED billingMode with 1RCU/1WCU, the price would be a little bit more than $0.60 (24*30*(0.000735+0.000147)= 0.63504)

Hi All, There is a footnote in the pricing page - [https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/pricing/][1] - as seen below †Outpost configuration pricing listed above includes 11 TB of EBS gp2 storage capacity. You can calculate prices for 33 TB and 55 TB or larger storage capacity using the EBS price tiers listed below. EBS storage tiers. Customers can purchase the below EBS (gp2) storage tiers: 2.7 TB EBS tier is priced at $0.6270/GB-mo 11 TB EBS tier is priced at $0.3420/GB-mo 33 TB EBS tier is priced at $0.2280/GB-mo 55 TB EBS tier is priced at $0.1710/GB-mo *EBS (gp2) storage TB =10244 bytes and GB =10243 bytes. Which payment option - All Upfront / Partial Upfront / No Upfront - is the above pricing for each Storage tier - referring to ? This is not clearly mentioned in this page anywhere. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/pricing/

A customer is setting up RDS PostgreSQL in one account (8 TB stored in total), and would like to take daily snapshots for restoring to another account's RDS PostgreSQL for their development environment. Both accounts are part of the same AWS Organization. Let's assume the snapshot is incremental, but I guess the restore would need to be for all the 8 TB each day. 1. Is RDS Snapshot Export an option for this case?, or in other words does it supports restoring to a different account? 2. What would be the costs involved daily in the backup and restore process (either manually or via snapshot export)? Does the restore have an associated cost? Should we consider Data Transfer Out in this scenario? Thank you

A customer is experimenting a high data transfer cost when using Commvault backup solution. Commvault is deployed in an EC2 instance and is copying EBS snapshots to another S3 bucket, being all the resources in the same region. According to S3 pricing documentation: *You pay for all bandwidth into and out of Amazon S3, except for the following: .. • Data transferred out to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, when the instance is in the same AWS Region as the S3 bucket. ...* Customer was not expecting any data transfer cost for the backup solution but they detect high costs associated to the concept EU-DataTransfer-Regional-Bytes Maybe I'm missing something but I do not see why this cost is there, as this concept is related with *The amount of data transferred from Amazon S3 to AWS resources within the same AWS Region* but that message seems counterposed with the s3 pricing documentation. Any clarification around that would be appreciated and also other options if this scenario really implies a high transfer cost.

A customer has two questions about WorkDocs pricing: For billing, how, if you have two users, each with the included 1TB, and user A stores 1.5 TB, and user B stores .5TB, is that total 2TB free, or do you pay extra for the .5TB that user is using. The pricing calculators give pricing in terms of Number of users and usage per user per month, so it is hard to tell. Additionally, how does pricing for versioning work? If a user has a 3 versions of a 10GB file, are they charged for 30GB, 10GB, or something else?

There are 2 different accounts belonging to different customers. One of the customer has one cloudfront distribution in the account and another have s3 bucket. They have enabled cross account s3 access. Now , we know that data transfer out is free from s3 to CF. But will this be free even in case of resources belonging to different account?

ELB will drop UDP and SYN flood DDoS traffic. Is that traffic still being considered for cost calculation as Data Processed?

Hello team, does anyone knows for sure if EBS Snapshot are charged proportionally across the month? I assume they are since this is how S3 and EBS volumes are charged. Ex: if a customer creates a 10 GB Snapshot on April 30 he will be charged $1.3 (SA region so 0.13 GB/mo) or 1.3/30 = $0.04 ? Thanks