I created some EBS volumes on some Linux instances. Then I terminated the instances but the volumes were still there (I forgot to check the Delete on Termination setting).
When I went to billing I saw that I was charged for the IOPS of those EBS volumes -- approximately US$8. So then I removed them, even though they were no longer attached to the instances (they were just there but with an available state).
Today after almost a day without EBS volumes in my AWS account I see that the billing is US$13!!! I checked the billing details and it all charged to IOPS of the EBS volumes even though I already removed them yesterday! I need to stop this right away.
I opened a case yesterday in AWS and the case is still unassigned. Anybody knows how EBS volumes are being charged? HELP! Thank you!
Sometimes AWS support takes some time to get back to you, this depends on your support level. If you have the free tier it may take 48 hours.
EBS is charged monthly and the charges do not instantly show up. So more than likely the $8-$13 charge was already there when you terminated the volumes.
You can view the EBS pricing here: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
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I created an EC2 on AWS (everything in the free tier) and today I got an alert about it exceeding the snapshot storage limit. Now what bugs me is that my machine has not run for over a day, nor have I created new ones. As the title says I don't have any snapshots or images either. I know it's only 5c/gb, but still, I don't want to see random charges from AWS.
Hope someone can explain this to me, thanks for any input!
I had snapshot in a different region and it wasn't displaying on the global view.
I once tried to study AWS in free-trial months. After I stopped accessing this account, I noticed that I was billed for AWS. The billing management console says that I was billed for using "EBS". How can I delete these services?
I searched in a search box "EBS" but didn't find any.
I thought it might be these two and deleted all the volumes in the region, but I am not sure.
Yes. Those are the only 2 you could be paying up for, assuming you had not performed any fast restores or used the EBS direct APIs.
https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
Volumes and their snapshot, even if not in use, still incur storage costs.
Your free trial probably ended or you were using more than what the free tier allowed.
If you have deleted all volumes and snapshots, you will not incur any more costs.
Volumes and Snapshots are under the EBS section on the EC2 Page -
I am running an EC2 instance and have attached a 30gb volume to it. First off, here is my usage summary-
I ran df -h and came up with this-
CLI says 2gb used but on dashboard it says 10gb used? Why this discrepancy?
CLI says 2gb used but on dashboard it says 10gb used? Why this discrepancy?
2GB is irrelevant, as this is what you instance is using. You provisioned a 30GB EBS volume and this will be counted towards for free-tier limit.
The dashboard is not real-time. You may need to wait for a day or two for it to update and correctly reflect your free-tier usage.
So if you have nothing else that uses EBS, your free-tier usage is 30 GB at the moment.
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 am confused on forecasted billing charges at my AWS trial account. I did terminated the instances but still its showing like this:
I want to know how I can reduce this cost? What exactly causing the cost?
You created some snapshots (backups) of the EBS disk volume of your instance. These snapshots are not deleted when you delete the instance. You need to go into the EC2 console and find the EBS snapshot section and delete the snapshots if you want to stop getting charged for them.