About 10h-18h ago I lauched several spot instances and used them for some time before I terminated them.
The AWS "Billing & Cost Management Dashboard" keeps showing me zeroes...
How do I track my expenses?
Do I need to enable something?
P.S. It's an old account and as I understand there is no free tier here
It refreshed almost at 24h mark...
aws billing refresh speed is remarkably slow
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I recently got this email from AWS budgets, saying I have exceeded the usage of AWS free tier. And when i check the Billing Dashboard -- > Free Tier , it displayed following table.
I have terminated all the instances and released all the AMIs . Still it shows the same status on my Billing dashboard.
How can I make sure that I am no more using any services that will cost me?
It can take up to around 24 hours to reflect changes on the billing dashboard.
In the meantime, I'd make sure there are no more EBS volumes or snapshots remaining as well. If you're worried that you may have missed any resources, go into cost explorer and drill down by daily spend. This should show anything still accruing costs.
I opened a so-called "free tier" account on AWS to learn about cloud services.
Now my credit card is charged every month and is costing me a lot of money.
I looked at the billing and I saw a Amazon RDS service in a Zone in USA.
I thought to delete the RDS instance but it was not possible even after trying several times and as hard as I could (All possible options and several times)
RDS instance could not be deleted by any means.
I thought to "stop" the instance at least it would cost less money. I saw the instance was stopped but for unclear reasons it started after 7 days again.
After a lot of frustration I decided to delete my AWS account in an attempt to stop the billing and prevent a bankruptcy. Amazon AWS still is billing the running the instance even after deleting my AWS account.
Now I cannot even login to AWS and cannot do anything.
I know I could block my credit card and get a new one, but I costs time and I would rather keep my existing credit card.
I want to open a lawsuit against AWS Amazon since it clearly violates European laws.
Please help me to answer the following questions
how can I stop this billing and prevent Amazon AWS to charge my credit card?
Where Do I get contact with AWS support, for this level I only find community help but no direct contact with AWS Support.
Where can I find information about precedent cases to prepare a lawsuit?
Many thanks for your help, this is very important since it has a big financial impact for me.
It is very easy to contact AWS support. There is a direct link in the navbar at the top right. AWS is actually pretty helpful when it comes to new users being accidentally overcharged. They will simply cancel your charges if you raised a ticket on time. https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home?#/
What did you do to delete your account? I doubt your root account is deleted. Try logging in with root credentials (email and password) then raise a support ticket.
I can't give you legal advise but do you really intend to sue a company who you did not contact even though their support links are on every page of the their product?
The AWS Free Tier provides a billing discount for certain AWS services. It is not a 'Free Account'.
You could contact AWS Customer Service (which is different to AWS Customer Support). They handle all billing-related queries.
Go to https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ and select Billing or Account support.
If you are unable to signing, go to: https://support.aws.amazon.com/#/contacts/aws-account-support/
AWS is charging me but the cost reports aren't showing enough detail to figure out why. I think it might be one EC2 instance I created for the tutorial but I can't figure out how to delete it. Can you help?
I signed up for Amazon free tier and I'm doing the tutorial on https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/build-modern-app-fargate-lambda-dynamodb-python/?e=gs&p=gsrc
It says on the first page "Many of the services used are included in the AWS Free Tier. For those that are not, the sample application will cost, in total, less than $1/day." So then I finished the first two modules of that tutorial and quit for the day -- I didn't shut down any services (cause the tutorial didn't tell me to) but today I got an email saying I've exceeded my $5 AWS threshold in only e days! The email has a link to a Cost Report that says it's spending $2.16 per day, but it won't tell me what!
I've gone through all the cost explorer reports and they confirm I'm spending money on EC2 but I can't find why. Can you help?
Here's a screenshot of the "Billing Management Console" -- says I spent that money on "EC2". But then when I drilled down into EC2 it wouldn't tell me exactly what.
So I clicked on the AWS Cost Management report and it says I'm spending $2.16 a day but it won't give any more granularity that that because all the advanced reports are monthly and don't yet show the last three days. (Apparently it lets you opt-in to daily/hourly reports but it says it charges a fee for that too so I didn't). So I don't know what specifically is charging.
So I clicked on the EC2 Dashboard. It said I'm using one volumne, 2 elastic ip addresses, and 4 security groups. I figured out how to delete the volume but I can't figure out how to delete the IP address or the security group. Are those charging me money? How do I delete them?
I went to the EC2 Instances and there is one "Volume" in use (basically a docker container created for the tutorial) so I deleted that, but that was well below what the Free Tier provides, so was that the source of my charges? Then I went to the Instances and it says there is one instance so I deleted that too. But it still says I have two IP addresses and comments below say I'm being charged for that.
How can I delete this IP addresses? There is no delete button.
How can I be 100% sure everything is deleted and I'm not getting any more charges?
Turns out the answer was actually a NAT Gateway VPN. That doesn't show up on the billing report screenshots above, but I eventually found it mentioned on the billing and then shut it off.
Unassigned ElasticIP will cost you money.
You delete ElasticIPs by Releasing them.
Security groups does not cost money. In general, for advanced users it is better to create all resources with CloudFormation stack so they can be all cleaned by deleting the stack.
If you have an Elastic IP assigned, and it's not in use, AWS charges you for it, if it's actually assigned to an EC2 instance and used, it's free. (To discourage people from hoarding Elastic IPs.)
When you're in the EC2 web console, click 'Running Instances'. What do you see? How many instances? How many stopped? How many running?
I don't think the security groups can be deleted, and I don't think AWS charges for them.
My AWS Free Tier is about to expire tomorrow, however I do not longer have active services within my account. I do not plan on using AWS anymore after my Tier expires, but since I do not trust Amazon from charging my credit card, how can I completely make sure I will not? As I said, I don't have active services. Althought I could just completely delete my account, I may use it in the future, who knows.
Check AWS Cost Explorer.
From what you're showing, you will not get charged (Security Groups are free). However, take into account that EC2 is just one service of many, and each region has its own set of resources. Cost Explorer may help you identify these. Good luck!
I'm trying to stay within the limits of my free tier, however, I notice I am being charged ~$1.50 a day for something, I don't know what.
I've terminated all my instances, yet the bill keeps ticking up every day.
I've also deleted all my security groups, route-tables, nat-gateway, subnets and vpc, everything I can think of. Something is still there creating charges though.
How can I get a list of all the objects still hanging around?
You can add a support request to AWS, there are very responsive to the requests. I had a student account on AWS and some Fargate charges were added to my account. I opened a case and submitted a ticket in the support centre. They responded quickly with the reason why my charges were occurring and also gave me $20 USD credit for that month. Also, you can check if Termination protection is enabled in any of your stack in CloudFormation. It stops your instances from being deleted.
you can contact aws support centre for more info. after deleting all instances and other services wait for 24-48 hour. it will be reflected in billing after that much amount of time.
you can go inside cloud formation and delete all stack if any one is there and check for all region.
also if you created load balancer delete it manually it will be not deleted with EC2 instances.