According to this page, the DynamoDB is always free for 25 RCU and 25 WCU with 25GB of storage.
However, in the capacity tab of a table, it shows me an estimate cost for 10 RCU and 10 WCU to be $5.81 / month.
Will I be charged or not charged for this amount?
The estimation that you see within the DynamoDB page is not directly related to the billing calculation, therefore it will not take free tier into account. It is a simple calculator that calculates the AWS charge based on the configuration that you provided for DynamoDB.
Free tier calculations and deductions are applied at time of billing, as long as you are equal to or less than the usage for a free tier service you will not be billed for it. If you exceed this you will either be fully charged (in the case of EC2) or will pay the difference (as is the case in DynamoDB).
In DynamoDBs case this an accumulative deduction across all regions and tables, and if your account if part of an organization across all billed accounts under the organization.
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I've got a E2 Micro instance running on Google Compute Engine at the moment.
Although it won't be using bandwidth quickly (expecting a maximum of 600Mbps), it will probably be using a lot of bandwidth in total (expecting around 10TB a month)
Are there any limitations to how much bandwidth my VM can use in total per month, or am I only going to be limited by speed?
You will be limited by your credit limit. Review network pricing. Internet egress bandwidth is apx $0.12 to $0.23 per GB. 10,000 GB is $1,200 to $2,300 per month.
Search for "Internet egress rates" at this link:
Google Cloud networking pricing
Note: for new accounts, IIRC your payment method will be charged at $100.00. Double-check how your account is setup.
For example, if your Cloud Billing threshold is $100.00, and you have not yet incurred any costs for the month, you might see a message that says Your entire $100.00 payment threshold is available.
or
"You'll be charged when your balance reaches $1000.00 or 30 days after
your last automatic payment, whichever comes first."
Find out your Cloud Billing account type and charging cycle
I have an organization and with in that organization we have 3 accounts.
All 3 accounts have been created month back and the master account of the organization is more than a year old.
I have Lambda function in all 4 account(including the root account).
I know lambda offers 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.
My question here is:
Is 1million request per account? or spread through out my organization?
Is my organization (root account) still valid for 1M free request? If the request are with in 1million?
The AWS Free Tier page says:
Always Free
1,000,000 free requests per month
Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month
This means that each account receives these free limits every month (regardless of the age of the account).
Free Tier benefits are not shared between accounts. They are given to each account individually.
I'm newbie to dynamodb, I have just 10 items and 1 global secondary Index with Read/write capacity units 5(minimum) which cost around $6/2days which is unacceptable for me because I have used only 0.01% of my actual needs I have gone through some documentation in aws dynamodb price reduction non helped me, because AWS recommend to avoid sudden spike read using query or scan, which is impossible to get more than one item with Partition key alone.
Tables as follows
Add_Employee
Add_Stocks
Add_vendor
All above table have read/write capacity units 1 and each have one global secondary index read/write capacity units 1. All tables are config within specified region Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Here is my billing for reference
$0.00 per hour for 25 units of read capacity for a month (free tier)18,600 ReadCapacityUnit-Hrs $0.00
$0.00 per hour for 25 units of write capacity for a month (free tier)18,600 WriteCapacityUnit-Hrs $0.00
$0.000148 per hour for units of read capacity beyond the free tier 6,723 ReadCapacityUnit-Hrs $1.00
$0.00074 per hour for units of write capacity beyond the free tier 6,723 WriteCapacityUnit-Hrs $4.98
Thanks in advance
You're not just paying for actual throughput, you're paying for provisioned throughput.
Looking at The Dynamo cost page, this means you are paying $0.0065 per throughput-hour each table exists per month, minus the free-tier hours.
Based on your table names, I'm guessing you are not following the best practice of using 1 de-normalized table table for everything. You may be better off using an RDS instance, which will not charge by the table, but by the hour (it's an EC2 instance behind the scenes).
Cost Breakdown
The default is 5 provisioned read/write units, and there are 720 hours in a 30-day month
$0.0065 * 5 * 720 = $24.37 a month per table
The free tier generally allows one table for free a month.
Per AWS docs you must have at least 1 provisioned unit.
How to Save
Make sure you're following the best practice of using 1 de-normalized table
For any dev work, make sure both read and write provisions are set to 1 ($0.0065 * 1 * 720 = $4.68 a month per table)
If you know you're going to be away for a while, remove the stack from AWS. You're only charged while the table(s) exists.
By limiting read/write units you should be able to bring the cost down to ~$5.00 a table per dev.
DO NOT TURN ON AUTO-SCALING
A commenter suggested auto-scaling. Per docs, you'll be charged for at least 5 units, which is what you are paying now.
This AWS forum link is about the same thing.
About a month ago I opened an AWS account to try out Amazon's own tutorial for EC2 services, only to give up after encountering an error.
Today I accessed my account once again, only to find out three tasks have been running in the background the whole month. My Billing Management Dashboard shows a hefty total in the upper right, but in the "free usage" tier the only exceeded entry is S3 Puts, of about 10%.
I can't seem to find a soruce anywhere in the documentation explaining whether the total billing in the upper right takes into account the Free Tier or not. At the end of this month, will I be billed entirely or only the % difference? I'm more or less okay with the latter, but I can't really afford the former.
I've obviously opened a support ticket right away, but since I'm on the basic plan I'm afraid they might answer me after the current bill becomes active.
Thank you for any answers.
You will be billed only for the % difference.
All services that offer a free tier have limits on what you can use without being charged. Many services have multiple types of limits. For example, Amazon EC2 has limits on both the type of instance you can use, and how many hours you can use in one month. Amazon S3 has a limit on how much memory you can use, and also on how often you can call certain operations each month. For example, the free tier covers the first 20,000 times you retrieve a file from Amazon S3, but you are charged for additional file retrievals. Each service has limits that are unique to that service.
Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier-limits.html
I'm using django and elastic beanstalk. I just made a new post and saw I was charged 0.01$ from aws which kinda worries me. Does this mean every time I make a post this amount will be charged? what if I make one then delete it, will I still be charged? can someone with an experience of elastic beanstalk help me out?
Why not delete it and see what happens to the cost? Deleting doesn't account for data transfer thus my guess is you won't pay a thing. Putting items on the queue does account for data transfer and you will pay. Keeping items on the queue (data storage) will cost you as you can see here: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/pricing/
Amazon EC2 Pricing (includes pricing for instances, load balancing, elastic block storage, and data transfer)
Amazon S3 Pricing (includes pricing for storage and data transfer)
The actual issue here seems to be a misunderstanding of the terminology used in pricing.
S3 charges $0.005 per 1,000 PUT/POST/LIST requests (some regions are somewhat higher, but this pricing is used through the rest of the answer).
This terminology does not mean that each request will actually be billed as $0.005 รท 1000 = $0.000005, even though this is a close approximation of what they will ultimately cost.
It actually means you are billed CEIL(TOTAL_REQUESTS / 1000) * $0.005...
...where TOTAL_REQUESTS is the number of that type of request you made during a monthly billing interval within one S3 region.
So making 1, 2, 500, 999, or 1000 requests is still a total monthly usage of $0.005, rounded up to $0.01. Not $0.01 each.
Making 1001 through 2000 total requests is a total of $0.005 + $0.005 = $0.01.
Making 2001 through 3000 total requests is a total of $0.015, which rounds up to $0.02.
...ad infinitum...
You wouldn't billed more than $0.01 total until after the first 2000 requests.