I couldn't find any documentation on pricing for EC2 instance's instance volume. Without looking at the AWS Management Console, I am pretty much sure that AWS will not charge for the instance volumes on top of the charges for the EC2 instance itself. Please confirm.
Thanks!
This is the pricing for EBS AWS Free Tier includes 30GB of Storage, 2 million I/Os, and 1GB of snapshot storage with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). But if you go beyond free tier then for specific volume type it differs
for example in US East region.
General Purpose SSD (gp3) - Storage $0.08/GB-month
For instance store volumes.
The cost of an EC2 instance includes any local instance store volumes, if the instance type provides them. Although there is no additional charge for data storage on local instance store volumes,note that data transferred to and from Amazon EC2 instance store volumes from other Availability Zones or outside of an Amazon EC2 Region can incur data transfer charges. docs for reference,
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It seems that my EC2 usage limit is being reached rather quickly. I have deleted all of my EC2 instances and most of my S3 buckets, and none of my EC2 instances even exist in the terminated state. Are there any other services other than EC2 that use the EBS storage? Thanks in advance.
Amazon EBS is only used by Amazon EC2 instances. (Well, it is also used by Amazon RDS, but it shows up as an RDS charge, not EBS.)
We are currently about a third of the way through the month, so you'd want to be around 30% of usage.
The Amazon EBS snapshot usage is ahead of that (58%). If this worries you, then you can delete snapshots under the Snapshots section in the EC2 console. Amazon Machines Images (AMIs) also use EBS snapshots, so check the Images section too.
The amounts are "growing" because they are based on a month of usage. So, 1GB for 1 day is ~ 3% of the month's total.
However, there is little need to panic — EBS Snapshots are charged at 5c/GB/month, so at the current rate of usage you might be charged 10c.
There can be another possibility where you run an instance with EBS volumes 'not deleted' even after the termination of instance, it can accrue storage charges also. So delete those ones also in the 'Volumes' section of EC2 instance if its still unused.
I'm using an EC2 instance on amazon and have mounted a 1TB ephemeral to the instance. The instance is an on-demand instance that costs $5 an hour. I was wondering whether there is anyway that I could stop (not terminate) the instance and still keep my data on the mounted ephemeral drive?
The Amazon EC2 Instance Store documentation says that if I stop it, I will lose the data. Does anyone have a solution?
Instance Store is disk storage directly-attached to the Amazon EC2 host machine. When an EC2 instance is Stopped, the virtual machine is removed and it loses the CPU, RAM and Instance store so that it can be allocated to another user.
Data saved on Amazon EBS disk volumes are retained because this is network-attached storage that is kept separate from the Host computer.
The only way to "save" your data is to copy it to another location (eg an EBS volume or Amazon S3 bucket) before stopping the instance.
You can use Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes for an ec2 instances. Once you stopped your instance, ebs volumes will retain the data. You can take snapshots on your ebs volume by specific time or incremental snapshot based on your requirement. BTW, You can store the snapshot in AWS S3 bucket for backup purposes. You can copy snapshot to different region via AWS Management Console or AWS API calls.
If you choose instance store volume type, you will lose your data. For persistent disk storage you can choose AWS EBS volumes.
I have two ec2 instances running in aws which are currently stopped (I am using the free tier just to experiment with Azure). I noticed that even though the instances are in the stopped state I seem to be incurring a charge for (this is all I have)
S3 - Puts (This contained the sample applications which I uploaded to test)
EBS - Volumes
Is this the case? or am I missing something here.
It depends on how big the EC2 instances and their storage are.
Stopped instances themselves don't cost any further money, but EBS storage, S3 and other moving parts like ELB's will still cause charges.
You get 30GB of EBS storage free per month in the free tier, so if the total of the EBS in use is more than that, you pay.
https://aws.amazon.com/free/ nicely describes the limits of the free tier.
For further cost calculations, check out https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
I am using the free tier of AWS. I am experimenting with ECS and am following the article http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/launch_container_instance.html to create an ECS instance. One this I noticed is that using the community image amzn-ami-2016.03.e-amazon-ecs-optimized adds an EBS volume which cuts into my free tier usage. My question is, is this EBS volume required and can I do it without the EBS volume?
Any EC2 instance would need a Root volume at the very least to start the OS. All volumes in AWS are EBS volumes. So if you were wondering if you can have an EC2 instance without EBS, I don't think that is possible.
However, you can still reduce your EBS cost. It costs 10 cents per GB per month for an EBS volume. If you would notice, all Amazon ECS optimized EC2 instances are configured to use 30GB of EBS volume storage. That means you pay $3.00 extra per EC2 instance for a month! 8 out of that 30 GB is for Root, and 22 out of 30GB is for docker use.
Source:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-ami-storage-config.html
By default, the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI ships with 30
GiB of total storage. You can modify this value at launch time to
increase or decrease the available storage on your container instance.
This storage is used for the operating system and for Docker images
and metadata. The sections below describe the storage configuration of
the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI, based on the AMI version.
Of course, you don't need the full 8GB for Root and full 22GB for docker. So you can lower your cost by reducing the size of those volumes to say 2GB for Root and 2GB for docker use. Then you would be paying 40 cents per month, and not $3.00.
Reducing volume size, as far as I know, is not easy.
Since that is out of scope for this question, I will just provide this link for interested parties.
Now that you are aware that there are 2 volumes used by ecs optimized instances, there is a way for you to NOT use the 22GB volume at all, and simply use the Root volume for docker storage. This too is not easy but can be done by creating your own AMI with docker and ecs agent installed. Then you will have to configure your docker to use the Root volume instead of the other one. Here is a thread which slightly discussed this issue.
For AWS ECS there is no additional charge for Amazon EC2 Container Service. You pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2 instances or EBS volumes) you create to store and run your application. Free tier in AWS https://aws.amazon.com/free/ only Amazon EC2 Container Registry is part of free tier which offers 500 MB for storage.
And also if you are creating ECS containers from amzn-ami-2016.03.e-amazon-ecs-optimized AMI the volumes will be EBS so you will have to pay for EBS volumes.
Is there any way to figure out which region an AWS EBS snapshot lives in?
A collaborator shared an ebs snapshot with me but I'm having a very slow transfer rate when I attached it to my instance (which is in USEAST-1d). I was wondering if the snapshot lived somewhere else but couldn't find a way to check it.
Snapshots operate on Amazon EC2 regional scope. You cannot create a volume from a snapshot residing in different region. Since you are able to create a volume in US-East-1A, i assume your snapshot also resides on US-East region.
Also as eric mentioned it is not possible to attach a snapshot to an EC2 directly, you have to create an EBS volume and then attach the volume to EC2 instance