I received aws billing email notification that "exceeded 85% of the usage limit for one or more AWS Free Tier-eligible services". When I check EC2 instance are running zero?
Can someone explain where to check running instances and if there is no any running instances why I received email?
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I need to create an Alarm in AWS which notifies me when my Storage used >= 80%
AWS has no visibility inside your Amazon EC2 instance. This is because the instance is run by the Operating System and AWS does not have a login to the instance.
However, you can Collect metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers with the CloudWatch agent - Amazon CloudWatch, which is a piece of software you install on the instance. It then runs inside the instance and sends metrics (such as available disk space) to Amazon CloudWatch. You can then create an Alarm on that metric to receive notification when the disk spaces metric passes a threshold.
I am getting this error Master Instance Group: Exceeded EC2 Instance Quota, when I create a new cluster on Amazon EMR with 1 Master node only or 1 Master and 2 Core nodes. However, there are no EC2 instances running on my account.
What should I do? I raised a ticket, asking if I can get a quicker solution here.
In your case I think you are trying to access a new region or new instance type, AWS sometimes does that when you are in free tier, they allow access to 2-3 regions or free instance types only. Then you have to request access from AWS by raising a case.
But in Normal scenario, this is what happens:
You may face an error like Exceeded EC2 Instance Quota while you are trying to spin up new instances either standalone or in cluster.
This error is caused because you have hit the limit on number of instances allowed in your AWS account.
This limit is region and instance size specific. To get rid of this error you will have to request Amazon to increase the EC2 instance limit.
Requesting a limit increase is simple. Below are the steps:
Most service limit increases can be requested through the AWS Support Center by choosing Create Case and then choosing Service Limit Increase.
Most service limits are specific to a particular AWS Region, so be sure to submit a request for each Region you plan to use. Many services support requesting multiple limit increases for the same service through one support case. After creating your first request, choose Add another request and then choose a new limit type or Region.
I'm working on a small personal project with a free-tier account.
I have one linux instance which I have my nodejs app running. The app basically listens for any incoming websocket data and uses AWS SNS to send the data to my iPhone. App needs to access RDS DB that I set up every time this happens.
Today I got an email saying that I used 85% of the usage limit for AWS EBS snapshot storage. I left it for few hours and now it used 100% and it says the Month-end forecasted usage is 3 GB-mo 310.00%.
It seems like this EBS snapshot is just a backup so is there a way to disable this to keep my cost $0? If not, how much will it cost me to run this app? Would moving the RDS DB to ec2 help reduce some cost?
During CloudFormation stack-creation I get a CREATE_FAILED error for Aurora with reason DB Instance quota exceeded.
I assume it means there are too many DB instances running (I'm on a company account with a federated login, and not the only one creating stacks and launching instances).
How do I fix it? Do need to delete some running instances? Also, how do I find out what the allowed quota is?
Limits in Amazon RDS shows a limit of 40 Amazon RDS DB Instances per Region.
You can contact AWS Customer Service to request a limit increase. Here's the Support screen:
I´m quite new with Amazon Web Services. Some months ago, I created a m3.medium instance on demand. According to AWS EC2 prices, this instance is 0.077$/hour. This means 55,44$/month (november). However, I got a billing of 74.76$ (91.12$ with taxes).
I guess I have some service that I´m missing and maybe they are charging me:
In example, I have an Elastic Load Balancer. Am I getting charged for that? Actually, I have realized I had two ELB. It looks like I created it another one for testing purposes and I forgot it there.
I also have an Elastic Block Store (EBS) with 8GB of size. Am I getting charged for that? Do I really need it?
When I check my billing status, I don´t see any reference to these both two services. So, I guess they are included in the EC2 billing, right?
I don´t know where I got the idea that when you start an EC2 instances, an ELB and EBS was included with no additional charges.
As you can see, I´m quite lost with these services.
Billing information is available from the account menu (in the top-right, next to the Region menu). It will display a simple breakdown of charges by service:
More detailed billing information is available by clicking the "Bill Details" link (in the top-right). It will show a breakdown of charges by service for any selected month:
EBS charges are included under "Elastic Compute Cloud":
To answer your questions:
Elastic Load Balancer pricing
Elastic Block Store (EBS) pricing: This is the disk storage for Amazon EC2. You will be charged for any volumes from the time they are created until they are deleted.
There is also a Free Usage Tier that includes 30GB of EBS storage each month in your first year (amongst other services). If you use services within this free tier, there will be no charge.