Got email of 85% Amazon RDS used in Free Tier - amazon-web-services

I am using an Amazon EC2 instance to host my site using the AWS Free Tier.
I received this email:
Dear AWS Customer,
Your AWS account has exceeded 85% of the usage limit for one or more AWS Free Tier-eligible services for the month of September.
AWS Free Tier Usage as of 09/29/2019:
AWS Free Tier: 17.1331 GB-Mo
Usage Limit: 20 GB of database storage, in any combination of RDS General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic storage
But I just have a 2.1 Mb of Database.
What to do?

From AWS Forums Posted by: BrianW#AWS
You should not be getting this message. The free tier is based on
allocated storage, not consumed storage. If you allocate a 20 GB
database, you will not exceed the free tier no matter how much you
insert into the database. We will on making sure these e-mails are
more helpful in the future.
So 20 GB is allocated storage for one year and you consume more for the month of September which is 2.1MB so based on 20GB for the year, you have to manager for each month accordingly.

This happened to me too (albeit a couple of years later :). I created the instance 2 days ago and barely anything in it. I was told that i created my db instance with an allocation of 200gb (doesn't matter what you store is what you allocate). they divide the allocation by 30 and then each day of that month the storage increases according to what that figure is . see chat below:
What is confusing for me is why it was created with 200gb in the first place. I'm pretty sure I accepted defaults on the creation of the instance , and being that I opted for free tier the default should have been 20. anyway that's what happened. Also i deleted the instance but if i create another then the usage that was calculated will carry on to the new instance so no free storage for me after all.
"When it comes to creating RDS instances, you are charged not for what you store but the storage you provisioned. Although the instance is now deleted, I can see you originally allocated 200 GB. AWS does a calculation where this allocated storage is divided by 30 and then each day, you will see the storage usage increases on the billing console. If you provisioned 200 GB and this is divided by 30, by the third day you have reached almost 20 GB of usage. That's why you got the alert. "

If you used the 20GB for a portion of the month, then it would be charged based on that portion.
So, you can allocate 20GB and use it for the whole month. This will consume 100% of the monthly allocation of the free tier, which is fine. It will continue each month like that.
Please note that the Free Tier for Amazon RDS is only available for the first 12 months of your AWS Account.

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Is there any way to free up some storage space to lessen the storage usage??? I do not want to increase the storage space and only want to use for free tier.
1 rds has 5 GB and another one has 200 GB both been set up on a free tier use case
That's why you are charged. In RDS you can have 750 hours and 20 GB of storage "free" per month. This is cumulative. Your two RDS instances count toward 750 hours, not each one separately. The same goes for storage. You are cleary exceeding the limits with 205 GB it total, instead of 20 GB allowed. Check aws docs:

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Im learning about AWS for a subject in the university.
About 20 days ago I started to learn about Elasticsearch because I need querys that DynamoDB can't do.
I'm trying to use only the Free Tier and I created some domains, put data through Lambda (like 100 KiB) and then deleted it.
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I'm unaware with preventive step which can restrict your billing.
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I received this mail now and I am using a free-tier account of AWS. This is for the first time that I got an email from them regarding my usage and I don't know what to do in response to this. Do I need to take some actions on my AWS account? Please help me I am new to AWS.
I also got to know that I have been billed $0.59 on this account. So do I need to do some payment or is it fine?
Apparently you used a feature from Route 53 that is not part of the free tier. It is not a fine, it is a service charge and needs to be paid. If you have your credit card on file, it will automatically be deducted. To ensure not to incur any more costs, have a look at the services and features that are part of the free tier here, and turn off everything else.
To prevent this in the future you can set up a budget which will send you a warning when your service charges are going beyond a predefined amount.
You will need to pay this.
With AWS the free tier covers a select number of services, some of these last 12 months from the opening of the account whereas others have a free tier forever (such as Lambda with 1,000,000 free invocations per month).
You're being billed for Route 53 which does not have a free tier.
The complete list of free tier is available from this link.
That is a courtesy email saying that you have exceeded 85% of a free tier limit for an AWS Free Tier-eligible service. Specifically, you have used 643 hours of Load Balancer usage out of a limit of 750 hours (643/750=85.7%).
It is not a bill. Is simply letting you know about your usage, because your total consumption for the month might exceed 100% of the Free Tier for that service.
That email is totally separate to the charge for Route 53 that you have incurred.

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My AWS S3 Free Tier stopped working because I've exceeded a requests limit.
I understand it, but is there any way to change it for a paid type of S3?
It's sooo hard to find anything useful in AWS documentation...
The AWS Free Tier is a billing discount. You still not be "stopped" from using anything, it's just a warning that you have consumed the free usage for the month.
By the way, the free tier is only actually worth:
5 GB of Standard Storage ($0.023 per GB)
20,000 Get Requests ($0.0004 per 1000)
2,000 Put Requests ($0.005 per 1000)
Value: $0.13/month
(5*.023 + .0004*20 + .005 * 2 = 0.133)
So, if you use twice as much as you are allowed in the Free Tier, you'll be billed 13c.
You don't need to do anything. After your limit is exceed - you are starting to pay normally for the rest :-)

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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