Questions tagged with AWS Billing

My app is in beta, so it's not really being used, I received a spike in my bill because of app sync and open search service. I can't figure out why this charge is happening or who triggered it. Could someone help me?

We have created two Organizational Units and multiple accounts under each OU. Is it possible to keep the billing separate for each of the OUs - so OU1 gets its own consolidated billing and OU 2 gets its own. The two OUs - although in the same company - have separate finance and accounts teams.

I do not want pay anything because I do not use AWS resources. If there are any avaialble resources, please stop and cancel all resources. I was just tying to create my account only for the styding. For sure, I have not been using any service in AWS. Finally, please check again whether there is any resources or services relevant any payment. Thank you.

On May 4, I created an Amplify app just to try it out, because I decided I didn't need it so deleted it. Soon after, when I checked the biling dashboard, I noticed I have 5 active services. I did my research and I discovered how to get rid of a service. In most services I didn't find a trace of anything created in there, except Lambda, so I deleted my Lambda functions. Later, I went back to the billing dashboard and I found and it still says I found 5 active services. The next day, it went up to 6 but I didn't do anything except double check my services, and today it went up to 7. What I'm really wondering is what does an active service mean? Is anyone else experiencing the activation of services without doing anything?

On May 4, I created an Amplify app just to try it out, because I decided I didn't need it so deleted it. Soon after, when I checked the biling dashboard, I noticed I have 5 active services. I did my research and I discovered how to get rid of a service. In most services I didn't find a trace of anything created in there, except Lambda, so I deleted my Lambda functions. Later, I went back to the billing dashboard and I found and it still says I found 5 active services. The next day, it went up to 6 but I didn't do anything except double check my services, and today it went up to 7. What I'm really wondering is what does an active service mean? Is anyone else experiencing the activation of services without doing anything?

Hi, I am trying to publish a task in AMT, but I am getting the error, "you have exceeded your monthly credit limit". I have signed up for AWS billing and my credit card information is valid and up-to-date. Can anyone kindly help me with what to do in this scenario? I have submitted a request to the support team about this, but I need this resolved urgently. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I've been billed about $30/month for Kinesis "OnDemandStreamHr" at about 720hr/month (so running 24hrs) for the last few months. I was playing around with Kinesis in January when studying for the ML cert, which is when the billing started, so that tracks, but I was very careful to shut down all my instances. I still don't see any running kinesis instances despite the billing continuing to happen. Any insight would be much appreciated.

I get a monthly bill for a few cents each month, and the amount is gradually growing. The bill says it is for * Amazon Relational Database Service Backup Storage * $0.100 per additional GB-month of backup storage exceeding free allocation I can't see where this storage is being used so that I can delete it - I've cleared out everything else on my account so there is no database to backup. There are no backup plans, jobs or vaults, no snapshots belonging to me in any of the RDS snapshot tabs, no reserved instances or automated backups.

Hi, i'm free tier user and been charged of $8.40 for running a Linux t3a.small in the Northern California region which is not cover under the Free Tier promotion. Obviously i have done that by mistake. However for the time being i have stoped that instance to avoid charges, as a result the website is also not responding usually. Please suggest me what i need to do now to run my website and also how to avoid the unnecessary charges in the future?

I signed up for AWS awhile ago. Never have used any services, that I know of. I have never received a message until last month. It's the first time I have ever got any mail from AWS. I am not using anything. I don't have any VM's or containers. So I am trying to figure out what the message is about? I have looked through my account and I can not find anything at all that is showing me what this free usage is, when it expires or what it's for? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I know that aws payments are usually made within 3 to 5 days. Can I change this date?

How can we get the billing data for each day separately in individual files in the form of CUR report.

My AWS account is compromised - I don't really understand how this would happen for a platform like AWS, where many people have their business on it. There are 1000x increases on billing due to the account being compromised. Billing dashboard shows continuing thousands of dollar charged even though turning off hundreds of instances started because of the account being compromised. I have already: * Reset password * Deleted all customized IAM roles * Removed all other IAM users AWS has provided any updates on the billing adjustment. What should I do? I would literally be bankrupt because of billing of a compromised account.

I want to terminate all services that im using. I have deleted some of it but there is still something that keeps me charging. It foresees that i will be charged for another 5,81 dollars and says there is 7 services that i am currently using but i cant find those. Can anybody help me about that?

AWS has discontinued the auto-bill payment option recently, due to a recent change in government guidelines in India. The manual tracking and monthly bill payment mode carry the risk of missing one or two bill payments due to any unpredictable circumstances. As a result of which you run into the risk of losing your account and all the resources and data in it. I have been seeking an alternative solution in order to cover my account against such vulnerabilities. Any such solution already available to address this issue will be greatly helpful. The following alternatives come to my mind, not sure why anything like that is not provided by Amazon. - A digital wallet to cover one/two months' billing expense - Auto clearance of minimum payment to keep an account active - An upfront payment for a certain amount of storage, similar to what is already there for reserved compute resources.

Hello there, We recently apply reserved instance no upfront, then the next day our billing shows double EC2 bills, can you clarify this ? 1. On Demand 2. Reserve Instance Same specs. Please advise

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

Hi, Is there any API to get the change rates used by AWS is the invoices? Where does the change rates used by AWS come from? Thanks for your help

Cost Explorer is only showing some, not all, stacks in the returned tag results for the AWS CloudFormation tags (stack-name, logical-id, stack-id), the other stacks don't show. Affected stacks also don't show any cost in the Cost Explorer widget in the Application Manager console.

I just finished the Startup School course and am eligible for AWS credits. I am trying to apply for those credits via AWS Activate. One of the fills in the application process is my email. That fills says that my company email is preferred. However when I completed the Startup School course, I used my personal email. I believe AWS will check my email with Startup School. I wonder what email I should use in my application to AWS Activate? Thanks in advance

I don't understand where this service/charge is coming from. Anybody know how to disable? Elastic Cloud Compute EBS $0.05 $0.10 per GB-month of General Purpose SSD (gp2) provisioned storage

I would like to park my personal Quicksight account (enterprise billing) so that I am not billed while it is inactive. Is there a way to backup Quicksight dashboards/assets, import formulas, visualizations, other metadata, etc? Or is the only way to reduce the billing is to discard and lose all experiments?

We purchased the Savings Plans mistakenly and contacted customer support as soon as we saw the charge. What are the steps to process the refund? I don't see any option to cancel the plan. Happy to provide the created case Id. We are an early-stage company, and the charge is too expensive for us at this moment. Looking forward to hearing soon!

I stopped and removed all my ec2 instances, IPs, images, snapshots, etc. I have ZERO active services this month, yet I am being billed for Cloudwatch. How do I turn it off?

I tried to add an M#####card credit card in the cards list for payment, but I get the following message: "Your card ending in #### is not supported for payments to AWS seller in your region. Please try adding one of the following supported cards: Elo, M#####card, American Express, Discover-Elo or Visa." This card is for sure a M#####card issued card and I have used it for other payments, both national and international. Any tips to use this looking good card to pay? *Edit: Removed "Card starts with xx** btw" as it included partial card info — Ben. G

Hi, I started using RDS under AWS Free tier. As per documentation, I was expecting 750 hours of RDS single instance availability without any charge. Below are the details of the charge from billing. I had a basic test table with <100 rows of data. Is there some config change that I need to avoid this charge. RDS $0.115 per GB-month of provisioned gp2 storage running MySQL4.684 GB-Mo$0.54 $0.115 per RDS GB-month of provisioned GP2 storage3.006 GB-Mo$0.35 Similarly for Cloudwatch I am getting charges without specifically activating any alarm. Below is an alarm for my cloudwatch. My provisioned capacity range from 1-10 read / write per second. So not clear how is the below alarm applicable and why is there a charge for this alarm? Do I need to make some changes to DynamoDB & CloudWatch config? In alarm 2022-03-26 22:44:22 ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits < 30 for 15 datapoints within 15 minutes Regards, DBeings

Hi everyone, I need help urgently!! my account was hacked on March 20th and billing is around 24k USD, I raised the case on March 24th when I notice the problem, but, the case in AWS Support has not so much progress. I did the following actions: - Modified password and MFA - Removed users and groups that I dont recognize - Released the dedicated hosts that were created under my account (17) - Removed other components (like Elastic IP) that was not created by me I dont know what else must I do now, I have 2 days waiting for a reply from AWS Support but it is taking long and I'm totally desperate now, can't sleep with this issue :'( Anyone that can help me, with more instructions to secure my account and/or escalating the case, my main concern is about the billing amount, unfortunately I can't affort pay for it, my account was mainly for testing, explore and implement University homeworks. How can I demonstrate that these configurations were not created by me? I will be very grateful with any help! *edited: Removed Case ID -— Brian D.

I think that I deleted my all AWS services last month and purchase my billing in February And why in this march there are several services that still active can you help me to shut down all my services?

An account is planing to configure CloudFront to house a large number of custom domains and terminate traffic to the CloudFront origin with a single CLB. To be a little more specific, the configuration will be as follows; Before: client -> CLB After: client -> CF* -> CLB *CloudFront content caching is disabled in this scenario. In this case, is it correct that the number of requests to be charged for After scenario is roughly twice the total number of GET/HEAD requests recorded in the Before Scenario? ("request for client -> CF" + "request for CF -> CLB")

I am a volunteer for a church. We are investigating using Amazon S3 to store backup data. We have a pretty good handle on how much the storage for this backup data would be, but we also want to encrypt the data while at rest in S3. I have read a bunch about encryption charges, but am still a bit fuzzy on how to compute these costs. From what I have gathered so far, there is no charge for encrypting data while at rest in S3 if we use Amazon managed keys. Is this correct? If not, would someone summarize the factors to consider when estimating the costs of at rest encryption in S3? Thanks.

Hi, I have terminated all EC2s, but my estimated cost has been increasing every day, please help me check what the daily consumption items of my account are, can you help me close all consumption items

Hi All, I have not used my Amazon account for a while. I think it was free-tier to begin with. I wanted to start re-using it. I logged on and find I have no access to Billing. I also have no access to Organizations. I can assign privileges to IAM users. I had an existing user under IAM and I gave it Administrator and BillingAccess privileges. I logged on with that user, but when it browses to Organizations or Billing, it also gets permission denied issues. Example with root account accessing "Account": You Need Permissions You don't have permission to access billing information for this account. Contact your AWS administrator if you need help. If you are an AWS administrator, you can provide permissions for your users or groups by making sure that (1) this account allows IAM and federated users to access billing information and (2) you have the required IAM permissions. I get the same error when IAM user with billing permissions accesses "Billing". I cannot even create a support case using root account. It says I have no access and I was placed in support plan Basic, but then there is no way to create a case. When I click "Create case": An error occurred when we tried to process your request User: arn:aws:iam::ID:root is not authorized to perform: support:DescribeServices with an explicit deny in a service control policy User: arn:aws:iam::ID:root is not authorized to perform: support:DescribeSeverityLevels with an explicit deny in a service control policy You don't have the necessary IAM permissions to view that support case. Learn more Then under "Create case" the various case options are grayed out. Thanks!

Hi Team, We are planning to use S3 as storage for HBase in EMR cluster. Our usage is as below 1. Approx 15M record insert/Read per day in HBase in batch mode. 2. Approx 5M put/get request per day real time in HBase. Can anyone guide how it will cost to us?

I was looking at my billing dashboard where I mostly have S3 storage, and 1 key in KMS. The odd thing is that there are 6000 SQS messages which doesn't add up to any cost but still why are there SQS message count where I don't have any services that uses SQS nor do I have any queues defined?

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?

Hello, I got charged this month and I didn't know why. It seems it is from CloudWatch. Today I read about CloudWatch for the first time. It seems I did something which no I do not know how to stop. The support could not help me, and they said "If you do not want to be billed make less requests". [Image1](https://ibb.co/dfQxvhz) [Image2](https://ibb.co/SwJ7Kym) I removed all roles. Added MFA to root user. I used to drop DataDog logs using their integration (which was linked to my root user), I deleted that integration. My root user does not have credentials. Could anyone help me figure out what I did in order to stop getting billed?

I just created a new instance for mac1.metal, but it is not working at all. Even the status check 0/2 passed. I wasn't really able to wait for the 20 minutes to open a case, and I just selected to terminate the instance. Now I am stucked with the instance in shutting down state. Instance ID i-0ffe79877d29371e2 Am I still able to create a new instance? Will the same happen if I recreate one? Also, is the billing for the mac1.metal based on the instance or the dedicated host? Will I still be billed even if I haven't really used the instance?

I'm new user in AWS. I have website and want to send newsletters. I've found, that Amazon SES have good pricing and I wish to migrate. BUT when I send request for production access, because from sandbox you can only test, I really don't know, WHO can work under sandbox. So, I sent my request by first time and result is deny in 2 seconds, than I send another one reply to this case, and result deny in few hours. I've done all steps from SES Docs, I verified domain and clearly described my process. I prefer to make some complaints on AWS and SES service, I will contact first with AWS sales, than I will contact with other services and I will share my AWS experience on reddit, quora, Facebook and many other social. My case id xxxxxxxxxx *Edit: Removed case ID — Kita B.

In CloudWatch dashboard, is it possible to use math expressions (e.g. based on EstimatedCharges or some other metric) to create a metric that shows a budget, with month-to-month cloud spending gradually deducted from that budget? Example: Suppose there is a starting budget of $1000. The cloud spend is $200 in the first month, and $100 in the second. Hence, the metric needs to have an initial value of $1000, which decreases to $800 at the end of the first month, and $700 at the end of the second month. Can I use CloudWatch Dashboards with math expressions for this, or would other services be needed? e.g. QuickSight, Lambda?

As mentioned [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-specify-cpu-options.html), r4.4xlarge instance type has 8 vCPU cores by default. But it is possible to set it to a lower value e.g. 1 at instance start request. In that case, how the billing works? Does it bill based on instance type? or vCPUs?

We submitted an application to the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program recently, is there a way to track its progress? The tickets don't appear to be in the support site. is there an expected turn around time for applications?

I have enabled WAF on Api gateway and my backend is on Lambda. Suppose out of total 5K requests made , 4K requests are blocked by WAF. In case, Do I need to pay charge for 5K requests on Api gateway, 5 k requests on WAF and 5 k requests on Lambda in total?

As lambda is pay you go service, I have some question on it . Suppose I host my application using AWS Lambda and API gateway. If someone hits my api through locust then my billing increases tremendously . Suppose I have lambda concurrency of 1000 and someone hits through locust with 1000 concurrency with 1000 users/sec. My billing will be out of my control. How can I control such load testing by someone others so that billing for Lambda won't increase?

I've been learning AWS for about 6 months now, have learned to disable Cloudwatch metrics when I create Lambdas so I no longer get charged for those, but I started getting charged again starting Jan. 20 2022, $.03, then $.05 per day since for something according to Cost Explorer which adds up to $.43, but I currently show a bill for $.44. I'm having trouble tracking down what exactly is causing the charge. AWS Service Charges is where I see where I exceeded the 10 free alarms per month by 4.430 alarms and a charge of $.44. When I click over to Cloudwatch, I see 16 alarms triggered on 12/20/2021-12/22/2021, but none after that...so I not connecting what I am being charged for...confused. Those alarms were for DynamoDB read/write capacity maybe autoscaling I think? There is a policy, that AWS will not let me disable, on my tables to allow Cloudwatch alarms, which is only getting triggered on 2 of my 5 tables, something that reads "ConsumedReadCapacityUnits < 150 for 15 datapoints within 15 minutes." Not sure if this is the charge. Can someone help me figure this out before I have to shutdown my AWS account for runaway spending? Thanks.

Hello, with my billing Dashboard, I'm getting 0.5 dollars daily for usage of Ec2-ELB for two days, even without any declared loadbalancer or accessing to my account. How I can find the source of this consumption I looked in EC2 load balancer I don't find any ELB Can you please advise ?

I created an AWS account 3 years ago for a college class then never used it since. In December I got an email saying there was potential fraud usage on my account and I saw that I had a $7,400 bill charged. I followed the instructions on the email and changed my password and submitted a ticket to report the fraud usage. After going through and deleting the instances that were created they sent my case to the billing team. After a few days they reviewed it and said that they can do an adjustment of just under $6,000 as a once off, meaning that I still have over $1,000 that I would have to pay. I asked if there was any way I could dispute the charges and they said no and closed the ticket. I've reopened another ticket to further dispute these. There are numbers of other forum posts saying that users had entire fraud charges cleared, why would mine only be part of the charge? What determines the adjustment that they came up with? You can see in my account that nothing was used for the past 3 years and a random spike in thousands of dollars while my billing information was out of date.

Newbie here was trying to sign up with the $10 plan. > Error > CreateInstances[us-east-2] > Sorry, your account can not create an instance using this Lightsail plan size. Please try a smaller plan size or contact Customer Support if you need to use a larger plan. > InvalidParams I contacted support, they did a ticket but said they have no idea when the restrictions will be adjusted. Sucks being new trying to sign up and being told all new people are instance limited. Im sure there is a reason. Im just trying to throw some cash and move my VPS. And learn some aws while im at it. Anyone have any idea how long the process takes?

Hi All, I had 2 instances of postgresSQL running as part of AWS RDS. I had missed the payment for the last billing cycle n the services got suspended. I paid the bills right now and am able to access other services like s3. However not able to find the db instances in the RDS dashboard. Able to see the last backup for the database was done yesterday. Will the instance be restored or should I create a new one ? Any idea how to go about it ?

I'm taking the Developer pathway on AWS Skill Builder, and the db.t2.micro instance has been starting up and backing up for over 20 minutes. Will I be billed for this time, or does the billing only start once the DB is usable?

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

We have opened a case to question a billing issue and request a refund, as an unused instance was created on our account. My dev team is adamant that they did not turn on the instance, so we're not sure how the instance was created. In any case, AWS has already billed us a five figure bill for December, and the size of the bill has caused undue hardship on the business and family. We are trying to be patient while we wait for AWS to help us resolve this issue, and perhaps give us a reprieve on the amount, but it is taking a long time. Does anyone have any experience as to how long AWS usually takes to respond and resolve billing issues? Do they play hardball with customers, or are they more flexible and thoughtful with their resolutions, especially with long-time customers?

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Hi there! On Dec 1st I submitted a purchase for a savings plan which should cover m5 family ec2 instance usage on us-east-1 region. I made the calculations to cover roughly what I was planning to use, but when looking at the billing details, it shows it only covered around %40 of the actual usage; but again, when looking at the saving plans usage, it shows only %54 of it was used. I couldn't figure out why all the usage wasn't being applied agaisnt the savings plan. The instance usage I intended to cover with this plan was a m5.2xlarge running Windows with SQL Enterprise. (The only m5 instance I'm actively using in this region) Unfortunatelly I can't post screenshots, but my m5 coverage report on us-east-1 region shows 44% coverage, but on the other hand my Saving plan utilization report shows only 54% usage. Thanks!!

hello everyone, if i bough a regional reserved instance (which gives no capacity reservation in any availability zones within the region) and i created a reservation over a specific AZ match the same attributes of the regional reserved instance and then created the instance in that AZ that match both regional reservation and AZ capacity reservation attributes , do i get charged on demand (no discount) because of unused reservation in the AZ if the regional reserved instance is stopped ?

Though have an EC2 is use to run a small docker instance to host a single page python app which ends up costing $30/month, wondering if there's a less dear option?

Hi All, I have multiple multi-region cloudtrail defined in single AWS account. One cloudtrail is sending logs to the security account and another cloudtrail is logging in to the local account. In the monthly bill, cloudtrail bill is showing as the massive chunk of the total billing amount. From the documents and resolution available on the internet, it seems happening due to duplication entry in the logs. However, the business requirement is to keep two cloudtrail in one account, one cloudtrail need to feed log data in the security account, and another cloudtrail to feed in the local account. How can we reduce the cost associated with two cloudtrails with duplicate log entries? Thanks & Regards Rimpal Johal

Currently, we've couple of AWS accounts under organization and among which one account being designated as Billing Account. We would like to change the billing service/controls to another account. Can we perform this change and any relevant documentations/suggestions would be helpful

I am noticing a very small charge of $0.03 every day in my account even though SecurityHub is turned off in all my accounts in OU. I have followed the instructions as per AWS documentation to turn off Security Hub and I can confirm that it's not active. I have also turned off Amazon Inspector checks and none of the services that are part of SecurityHub are enabled. I was wondering if you could guide me on where else I can look for the charge. ``` Security Hub ($) 0.03 ```

Hi, I am a student and I used AWS for my assignment. My assignment is completed and I receive a bill charging for Elastic Compute Cloud. I cannot delete the instance and to stop bills to accumulate. Can I have your expert advice on how to solve this problem? I don't want to be charged forever. Thank you very much.

Greetings, I am inheriting a GitLab instance hosted by AWS. The account went dark in the last month and I can't find out which account was responsible for hosting it. I do know that the DNS resolves to 160.1.95.197, that GitLab was not hosting it themselves, and that it might be GoDaddy reselling AWS or an internal AWS account which has not yet been discovered. I spoke with AWS Customer Support and they said to post here and that they could not identify the account for me. How can I find the account and get the data? Cheers, Joe Gorse

AWS Key Management Service 20,000 free requests per month for AWS Key Management Service 0.89% (178.00/20,000 Requests) who can answer?

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

Starting on Dec 13th, I received an email that my account could be compromised and I confirmed it was hacked. I created this account for educational purposes but never used it at all. Now, I can see charges for over 7.5k and my support ticket (9342852151) has been unassigned for more than 24 hours, even when the bill continue increasing. I have no payment methods configured, so I don´t know why you permitted this to happen. I don´t know how to stop it or anything. I need assistance ASAP. Please, let me know how much time is required to get someone assigned when a ticket is tagged as "Urgent business impacting question". According to the chat session I had yesterday, the AWS security team should be reviewing the issue. Thanks in advance, Regards,

I had a Sagemaker user I wasn't using, so I tried to delete it and initially came across this tutorial: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/gs-studio-delete-domain.html . As part of the larger process for how to delete a domain, it shows how to delete any user profiles within that domain. The steps are: * Choose the user. * On the User Details page, for each non-failed app in the Apps list, choose Delete app. * On the Delete app dialog, choose Yes, delete app, type delete in the confirmation field, and then choose Delete. * When the Status for all apps show as Deleted, choose Delete user. The problem comes on the final step: I wasn't able to find a "Delete user" button. This feels like a bug, because without such a button the only way to stop charges on a Sagemaker user is to use the CLI, which I eventually did. You can only delete the domain if you have deleted all users, meaning it only works using the CLI for that as well. For every other AWS service I've used, there is an easy way to delete everything from the GUI.

I started a couple of instances yesterday and today none of them were visible in the AWS console nor I was able to access them using PuTTY even though I saved the session. I'm assuming those have been shut down by some process even if I have no way to check if it's so. now I would like to know if there is a way to keep an instance running unless I explicitly enter some commands to shut down the machine.

Hi, I am new to AWS and have started using the free tier. Apart from some tutorials and learning, I have just set up a cron job using EventsBridge and make call to Lambda to write to DynamoDB. But I am getting charged for CloudWatch - i disabled all alarms in CloudWatch two days back but my bill still increased. Below is the line from the bill: $0.10 per alarm metric month (standard resolution) - US East (Ohio) 1.962 Alarms $0.20 Please advise on how to investigate this further. Regards, Dbeing

Hi AWS Support Engineer I am getting billed for Amazon Elastic Container Service resources, which are not running ( or at least I am unable to find out) in my account. I have raised the AWS ticket and they have directed me to this forum. Please note earlier in November end, whatever fargate services/tasks I could find I had deleted and post that there were no charges levied. It was also confirmed by support person that there wont be any new charges as services are deleted. But in last 2 to 3 days it has started appearing again. Kindly assist to resolve this as soon as possible. Regards Ashwin

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.

Hello, I have received student credit from AWS Educate and I have applied the promo code successfully. Now I log in to my account and I find that my credit has expired without even three months passing and it should last a year! Can this credit be reactivated or can I receive a new one? I contacted support on Thursday and I haven't received any reply yet.

I wanted to fetch previous months CUR reports, I wasn't able to find a way to provide period which creating the Cur report. can anybody suggest how i can get previous months CUR reports

I am using AWS CUR reports to analyze my billing and usage data, I want to copy my CUR report to a sql table, but since the columns on the CUR reports don't remain constant, hence i am unable to copy it to table until i modify the table columns each time when the columns change. Can anybody suggest a way to limit or restrict the columns in CUR report or alternate way to copy the data to sql table.

Hello, I was wondering how billing works for the 'map' state in step functions. Let's say I have an array with 100 items and they are processed by map state. States in map state are; 1- pass 2- wait 3- pass so in this case there are at least 300 transitions, right? Meaning almost 300 times more expensive than handling all items in a lambda function with a 'for loop' or something similar. I could not find any documentation about the billing of map state. I hope somebody can help me out with this. Thanks!

Since I am new with AWS, I just come across Organizations in AWS, and just created new OUs and AWS Accounts. Initially, I have an EC2 and a Savings plan under one account since I don't know Organizations then. Now that my main account is the Management Account, I want the EC2 instance and the Savings plan to be transferred to the new AWS Account under a specific OU. This is so that I can easily manage and determine the costs per OU. Is this possible? And if not, will this work: * Savings Plan will stay in the Management Account (I can't recreate this one since the plan is already for 3 years); * EC2 will be deleted on the Management Account; * Recreate a new EC2 on the new AWS Account; * with Consolidated Billing, the Savings Plan in the Management Account will take account for the EC2 on the new AWS Account Let me know your thoughts on this.

Every month, I receive about 20 invoice emails from AWS - several pertaining to each account in our AWS Organization. I would prefer to receive a smaller number of emails - or, preferably, a single consolidated email from the root account. Is there a way to configure this in AWS?

When Amazon translate batch job fails mid way when processing documents, does the customer still get billed? If so, what is the charge based on?

Hi All - Looking for some help in what makes the most sense to configure a partner account and customer account, where the partner is looking to act as a re seller on behalf of the customer. This would be outside of any SPP/MSP program, and would not involve a distributor either. It has been decided that the partner's domain will be used, so that they can see the billing on the account and can charge the customer for the Infrastructure and managed services, accordingly. The partner wants to legally own the account. Is there a way to set it up where it's the partner's email address, and they just list the customer as an end user? If so, what does this process look like to configure this account? Thanks for the help!

If we upgrade from basic to developer, can we later downgrade back to basic?

I'm looking at using one of the free-tier Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-0b9064170e32bde34 (64-bit x86) machines. About how much will this cost me after my 1-year free-tier thing is over? a ball-park figure? I want to set up a Mosquitto broker on it, but if it's going to be too expensive later, I might go another direction. Thanks for any info.

Hey everyone! I'm currently trying to poll for costs of the current account with the cost explorer service but I'm receiving following error: **Error: AccessDeniedException: Inadequate permission for linked account to see the cost with EDP discounts applied** While I'm aware, that I might have to grant or be granted permissions I don't know where even though I tried some variations like adding policies to the account user. Do I have to enable something at the payer account level or specify a linked account in the request parameters? The code is the following: input := &costexplorer.GetCostAndUsageInput{ Metrics: aws.StringSlice(\[]string{ "NetUnblendedCost", }), TimePeriod: &costexplorer.DateInterval{ Start: aws.String(start), End: aws.String(end), }, Granularity: aws.String("MONTHLY"), } result, err := costService.GetCostAndUsage(input) Edited by: DennisLeanix on Nov 2, 2020 2:12 AM

Hi Is there a table somewhere of the meta data for the AWS Cost and Usage report. I want to import the CSV into a MySQL database. Best regards Andre

We would need to transfer all assets under an AWS account (not the one I post this message under) to a different account. Questions: 1. Is it at all possible - to transfer all assets under control of a different AWS account? 2. If answer to 1. is positive - how it can be done? 3. If answer to 1. is negative - how do I place a different person under control of an AWS account (that means changing personal data/address, payment means) 4. May a person have several AWS accounts (if we have to use 3. above)?

Hi. For research purposes, I&#39;m about to run a relatively large computation on AWS (to the tune of $30,000 in CPU costs). The corresponding budget has been approved by my employer, but it is for the current fiscal year only, which ends March 31st. As a result, I would like to settle the bill corresponding to the usage costs for this computation asap after the computation is completed (hopefully by March 20th or so), not waiting for a monthly bill to be issued (presumably in April?). I see that there is a "Make payment" button in the billing dashboard. Will I be able to use this button to make a one-time payment as above during the month, or will the bill not be available to settle at all? Thanks!

I logged into my dashboard and find that I am suddenly being charged $10.35 for "Elastic Compute Cloud". I don&#39;t even know what this is and it has never been explained. The charges come from region US West (Oregon): $3.51 for "$0.0116 per On Demand Linux t2.micro Instance Hour" and $6.85 for "$0.0225 per Application LoadBalancer-hour (or partial hour)". The money is not important but I feel cheated. I am not even sure what this service is charging for considering that I am now hosting through Heroku because Elastic Beanstalk is worthless. I am only using Amazon for a single S3 bucket. The only reason I haven&#39;t totally abandoned AWS already is because of time constraints but I am seriously considering moving to a more honest and transparent host. I have seen the vague answers that usually come from Amazon support. I have also contacted my lawyer. Please provide some explanation and allow me to turn this trash off. Thank you, Josh.

Hi Team Is there a way to receive a notification when someone adds a rule in S3 lifecycle configuration to transition objects to Glacier ? A client configured the rule to reduce S3 costs and had a billing shock due to very large number of small objects. They are trying to prevent such incident in future.

Hi, I'm trying to use the recently added Hourly billing queries but I can't get it to work with boto3. I have had success using the very latest awscli (1.16.292), but version 1.10.28 of boto3 at least does not appear to work for me. The query I'm using: ``` import boto3 from datetime import datetime, timedelta CURRENT_HOUR = datetime.today().replace(minute=0,second=0,microsecond=0) PREVIOUS_HOUR = CURRENT_HOUR - timedelta(hours=1) aws_client = boto3.client( 'ce', aws_access_key_id=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, aws_secret_access_key=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, ) response = aws_client.get_cost_and_usage( TimePeriod={ 'Start': PREVIOUS_HOUR.isoformat() + 'Z', 'End': CURRENT_HOUR.isoformat() + 'Z', }, Granularity='HOURLY', Metrics=['UNBLENDED_COST'], GroupBy=[ { 'Type': 'DIMENSION', 'Key': 'SERVICE' }, { 'Type': 'DIMENSION', 'Key': 'LINKED_ACCOUNT' } ] ) ``` Can anyone replicate this? Edited by: ElliottIwoca on Nov 29, 2019 3:44 AM Edited by: ElliottIwoca on Nov 29, 2019 3:48 AM Edited by: ElliottIwoca on Nov 29, 2019 3:48 AM

Who is responsible for data transfer OUT charges when the transfer is originated by a VPC in one account, and that data passes through a Transit Gateway in another account on its way out through a Direct Connect (DX and TGW owned by the same account)? ***Details*** With the recent announcement on Direct Connect granular cost allocation (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/aws-direct-connect-aws-direct-connect-announces-the-support-for-granular-cost-allocation-and-removal-of-payer-id-restriction-for-direct-connect-gateway-association/), it is stated that we now "allocate Data Transfer Out charges to the AWS account responsible for the Data Transfer." I have a customer who acts as a transport service provider, and they own multiple DX connections that they plan to connect to Transit Gateways via a Transit VIF and DX-GW. The customers of my customer have VPCs in separate accounts that will be connected to my customer's TGW. With my customer owning the TGW, I am unclear on whether the cost allocation per the above announcement will consider the owner of the TGW responsible for the data transfer OUT, or whether that responsibility will be attributed to the owner of the VPC that originated the transfer. Also, if traffic routes through a firewall or IPS in Transit VPC owned by the DX an TGW owner on the way out of AWS, will that change the consideration of cost allocation?

Every start of the month we get 2 emails: AWS Billing Statement Available and AWS Invoice Available The invoice has attached the pdf with the cost of the previous month. But the "Billing Statement" seems to have the spending from the beginning of the current month in the body of the email. This has us a bit baffled as we not quite sure why we get that email too. We are more than happy of just the invoice of the previous month and done. Why do we get a "Billing Statement"? and what is it?

Hi, I've fielded a question a few times that's generally along the lines of: > I have a single RDS (or EC2) instance for my multi-tenant SaaS application. I know the total spend by department/system based on cost allocation tags, but I want to know cost by tenant for a chargeback model. My response is that - well, there are a lot of way to do this but it ultimately comes down to combining data from the server. For example, you could use any one (or combination of) query counts, query times, storage usage, etc. by database user (or group/schema/etc), export that to S3, and combine that with the cost and usage report from AWS using Athena/Spectrum/etc. There's no "out-of-the-box" AWS solution for split billing / chargebacks in RDS... this would be custom development My question is: has anyone seen any good open source examples or partner solutions for this scenario? Though question is focused on database billing, if you've seen things for related services (e.g. EC2, ECS, Lambdas, etc.), that would also be of interest.