Hello! I'm currently working on a Unity game. The only problem is servers. I have been looking at EC2, but don't want to spend money on this project. To start, Does EC2 with the free tier get deactivted after 12 months? If it doesn't, what would force me to pay for it?(Server being up to long, Too many players connecting etc)

Hey everyone, just a small question about the free tier. I've set up a EC2 instance in eu-north-1a for testing and without much usage it stayed free. But after recreating it and run stuff on it i get charged for EUN1-EU-AWS-Out-Bytes (EU (Stockholm) data transfer to EU (Ireland)) and i can't figure out where this transfer is coming from. I did not set up anything in Ireland that it can talk to. It is just a bit over 1GB until now but i'm curious where it comes from.

Hey guys

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I thought that there is no always free EC2, but just saw from a well-known site that always free EC2 is available for a very specific type. Is that an old policy that no longer exists any more, or something new that I didn't know before?

On the website it says. That I get 750 hours per month but a month has 730 hours so how does that work if you run a compute instance 24/7 a month it will never expire as it is 730 hours not 750? Does it renew time every month and is it free forever or you have to pay after a year or certain period od time, i'd like to use it to host a small personal website.

I understand with Free Tier I get (750 Hours of t2.micro + 30GiB of EBS)/months, I want to create a few EC2 instances that I will use for learning/lab purposes, I will not be using each of them for more than 100 hours/month, most of the time they will be shutdown/hibernate, that's for the CPU usage (750 Hours), but the storage for each instance will count, even if shutdown/hibernated.

Can I create the instances with 5GiB or 10Gib of EBS instead of the 30GiB default? Example I create 3 EC2s with 10GiB EBS each, therefore I will be within the 30GiB/month overall for all 3 EC2 instances, will that work to not get charged?

Also, if I assign a public IPv4 to any EC2 instance, I will be charged $0.005/hour, will that charge also apply if the instance is Shutdown or in Hibernation?

Thank you

Hi, im thinking about deploying an django application and im looking for options, yesterday i saw a youtube video in which it was used an ec2 instance so i read about it in the aws description but i feel lost in the part that says 750 montly hours of t2.micro or t3.micro, i did the numbers and one month with 31 days has 744 hours so, how it works or how it count the usage?

I just signed up today. There are lots of features and I was exploring different areas. I clicked on the billing tab and somehow was automatically switched out of the free tier. I did not agree or consent to this. And customer service “cannot” revert me back to the free tier now.

I am not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1mzfzb3/accidentally_upgrade_from_free_plan_to_paid_plan/

Hi everyone,

I'm reaching out for some insights into an issue I've encountered with AWS billing. In August, I created an AWS account and set up the smallest EC2 instance using a free-tier AMI. I was aware of the 750 free hours per month and used this instance for personal projects. My usage didn't exceed this limit, and I didn't run any additional instances or services.

However, in October, I received a bill for $10 from AWS. This was surprising as I had not expected any charges given my usage was within the free tier limits. AWS has sent me several reminder emails to pay this amount, but without an option to reply or query the charge.

I've checked my usage, and I'm quite certain that I didn't exceed the free tier's parameters. There wasn't significant traffic or data transfer either, as it was just for experimentation.

I'm seeking advice on the following:

1. Has anyone experienced similar billing issues with AWS, particularly with free-tier services?

2. What could be the possible reasons for this charge?

3. How should I approach AWS for clarification, given the no-reply nature of their emails?

Any insights, experiences, or suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!

I’m trying to retrieve the pricing for all AWS EC2 instance types programmatically. I’m looking for the most efficient and up to date method. Should I use:

AWS Pricing API
AWS CLI/SDK calls
or is there any other approach to do?

I want to get both, on demand and spot pricing for all regions.

I launched 20 virtual instances and I thought I get 750 hours free per month. So far I've only used 140/750 hours but I have a total bill cost of $15, why is that? Is EC2 Not free?

Hello,

I have recently created 2 AWS accounts for my clients and it is charging a SQL server db.t3.micro bill (which there is no way to select anything less than that even with Postgress or SQL on any versions).

I understand that half a penny is charged now for public IPs so the virtual private cloud is understandable.

Even if I try to use Postgress the monthly cost would should at the end of the creation process.

What should I do?

I was billed 60k having only signed up for the free tier, what is this? Contacted aws support and they told me this was correct and that all usage above the free tier was billed like normal. My site has not seen activity that indicates that this is correct? What do I do?

Edit: To the people still lurking around this post I don't have anything new to post really, still trying to figure out the correct way to go about it. The account is suspended and I can only view billing and support.

Thanks to everyone who shared their tips and tricks, some of these could have saved me a lot of trouble if I had known before.

Useful information is still very much appreciated, mockery not so much, however much I may deserve it.

For those interested I have the full overview of the bill, here.