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Do all EC2 instances now effectively have a $4/mo hidden fee?

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It's not mandatory to attach a public IP to an EC2 instance. You can simply attach an ENI with only a private IP which doesn't cost anything extra to the instance cost. It's typically bad practice to put public IP's directly on instances anyway. Typically you'd put an ELB or CloudFront in front. If you try and scale on 1 public IP per instance than of course costs will linearly increase. NAT Gateway is the easy way to scale, or roll your own NAT instance and then you can reuse it for outbound across many instances. Answer from elamoation on reddit.com

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r/aws on Reddit: EC2 cost in a month

August 2, 2025 -

hey how much does it cost you for running an ec2 with a moderate number of requests. I have a ec2 with sql server running in docker in a t3 medium instance for a .Net application. I have no request coming as of now but the cost is like 3-4 $ each day. That would be painful for a small businesses. Is there a way to optimize. I did few rate limiting through nginx but cost changes were minimal. And also other aws managed service would be more expensive than manually handling.

EC2 instances are paid by the amount of time they are turned on. 1-hour cost $0.044, 1-month is aprox $32. You can see it clearly here https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/t3.medium?currency=USD&duration=monthly So it doesn't matter if the instance is receiving requests or not, as long as it is on, you are paying for it. Theen, you have all the other small charges, like data transfered from your instance to the outside, public IPs in use, etc, and some others not so small, like if you deployed a Load Balancer in front of your instance, that's hourly cost as well. You can ask Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT, about the break down of costs of what you created, they can probably give you a good understanding about it.

Sounds like the vast majority of your cost is the ec2 server itself including the provisioned storage. This should be obvious in cost explorer and detailed billing records. Rate limiting and tuning is gonna do nothing for your cost if this the case. You may have to go to a smaller instance type.

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r/aws on Reddit: Do all EC2 instances now effectively have a $4/mo hidden fee?

January 24, 2025 -

A public IP now costs $3.65/mo. This isn't included in the EC2 price; it's not even shown in the AWS pricing calculator when estimating EC2 costs. It's hidden under VPC pricing.

That's a fairly substantial increase for small instance sizes. A t4g.small with the savings plan at around $9/mo will actually cost $13/mo — almost a 50% increase.

And there's no real way around it for most situations, especially small projects where that cost makes a difference.

Let's say you decide to use CloudFront and put your EC2 instance on a private subnet, no internet gateway or public IP. You can use EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint to SSH into your box, but good luck installing packages or pulling Docker images. You can't even connect to ECR without using AWS PrivateLink, which costs a bit over $7/mo.

And don't even think about a NAT Gateway; you'd think NAT would be cheaper than a dedicated IP, but AWS charges you $32.85/mo for what a crappy home router does.

The smallest DO droplet costs as much as an IP, and that's with 10 GB of storage (and an IP).

Is there something I'm missing here? Or is this just a new hidden fee and we have to accept it? It's already bad enough that you can't create an EC2 instance anymore without an EBS volume (another fee), but at least that's reasonably cheap. I know AWS has always been fees left and right, but it's starting to get egregious. You can't even have simple hotlink protection if you choose CloudFront without paying $6/mo, something that's free everywhere else.

Edit: Wow, this is really controversial, it seems.

Edit 2: I need to clarify a bit, because I think a lot of people reading this won't realize what's it's like for a new AWS user, or for someone like myself who's setting up AWS for the first time in 7-8 years.

When I first posted this, I didn't even realize IPv6 public IP was possible. It's not made clear in the console, either when launching an EC2 instance or when creating a VPC. IPv4 is the default for both, too. I think anyone would be forgiven for not knowing there's another way and just eating the automatic $4/mo cost.

And that's really the crux of the problem. It's not an opt-in extra charge like most AWS services. It's opt-out, and you have to know that you can even opt-out at all. And, like I said, for small, single-node applications, that $4/mo fee is a fairly significant % increase.

But the fact that some of you are supporting such hidden fees is, frankly, shameful. I think I'm done with reddit for a while. Y'all suck. Those who suggested v6 and shared your experience, thank you.

It's not mandatory to attach a public IP to an EC2 instance. You can simply attach an ENI with only a private IP which doesn't cost anything extra to the instance cost. It's typically bad practice to put public IP's directly on instances anyway. Typically you'd put an ELB or CloudFront in front. If you try and scale on 1 public IP per instance than of course costs will linearly increase. NAT Gateway is the easy way to scale, or roll your own NAT instance and then you can reuse it for outbound across many instances.

I run a single EC2 with a free public IPv6 address and put CloudFlare (free) in front of that so that I can get both an IPv4 and IPv6 public accessible address for my web domains.

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r/aws on Reddit: Best Way to Get Pricing for All EC2 Instances?

1 week ago -

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.

AWS Price List Bulk API.

I think you can use AWS Price List Bulk API for all on-demand pricing but use EC2 API per region for spot pricing since spot prices aren't available in the Pricing APIs.

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r/aws on Reddit: EC2 time/pricing

July 25, 2023 -

Is EC2 priced per second or per hour? If I run it 20mins will I pay only for 20mins or for one entire hour?

EC2 usage is billed in one-second increments, with a minimum of 60 seconds.

Hi there, Check out the following article on re:Post to better understand how EC2 Instances are billed and what is considered: https://go.aws/3Kct7Nq . If you'd like to estimate your cost, feel free to use our AWS Pricing Calculator: http://go.aws/calculator . - Ben G.

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r/aws on Reddit: Am I misunderstanding the cost of hosting an ec2 instance?

May 25, 2023 -

I think I’m being charged like $2 a week on a free tier ec2 instance.

How do I lower that cost? Seems kind of strange that that’s happening. New to this whole thing of hosting. It’s just a Wordpress blog with no traffic. Am I misunderstanding the cost of hosting?

I appreciate this question, as we look to keep Free Tier as free as possible! This re:Post article is a great reference as it discussed which services are covered by the Free Tier offering as well as how to locate and terminate unwanted services. How to use AWS Budgets to monitor your Free Tier usage is also helpful to keep costs to a minimum. Without direct access to your resources, I don't want to speculate as to what the $2.00 charge is for and if the linked resource/s is a necessary component for you. If you're unsure of the specifics of these costs, it's best to open a case, in your Support Center to the Account & Billing Support team. They'll be happy to get to the bottom of this charge with you. - Kraig E.

If all you're looking for is a WordPress blog, why not use one of the shared hosts that will give you more of a fixed price? If the EC2 instance is free tier, you most likely have an EBS volume that isn't free tier which is what the $2/week is.

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r/aws on Reddit: How much would this EC2 setup cost me.

August 19, 2025 -

First off, my apologies if this is not the right sub, I've been searching for appropraite subs to ask my question, but only found this.

I'm a forestry researcher, I'm trying to use an opensource software for 3D photogrammetry, but my computer keeps crashing whenever I use it. My last option is to host it on a cloud machine, but I want to estimate how much it will cost me to operate. How does EC2 billing work? Do I get charged the per hour billing every hour that I have it set up or every hour that I'm actually using it?

The software is opendronemap and I'm following this tutorial to set it up. I basically have drone imagery that I need to process to produce orthomosaics and 3D point clouds. The popular software for these are extremely expensive so I'm resorting to this. The specs I need is simply a 16GB ram, 100GB storage cloud computer. My entire work will probably take up to 2-3 days to process. I'd appreciate your advice.

Random bits from a life science person who heavily uses AWS - AWS bills ec2 by the second. You pay for what you PROVISION not what you actively use so the charges you are going to be paying for include: - The cost of the ec2 instance server itself - The cost of the storage you allocate to the server or attach to the server as an EBS volume - The cost of a public IP address (these are no longer free) - The cost of any storage used for snapshots or backups AWS has some cost calculators that will help you figure this out. For the EC2 server cost use instances.vantage.sh website and select Linux and On-demand for pricing info. The vantage website scrapes the EC2 APIs and presents a far better searchable EC2 cost explorer than anything AWS native has developed I hate video tutorials so I just skimmed that video but it was a pretty generic intro to setting up an Ubuntu server on AWS The big thing to make sure you understand is that it can be a very bad mistake to just fire up an AWS account and instantly create a public facing server hanging out on the naked internet. There are MANY MANY things you need to do to secure your AWS account, your credentials and set up billing alerts and budgets before you even think about setting up or securing your server and app. Just browse this reddit to see all the horror stories of people who got their credentials leaked and are now facing a $30,000 AWS bill AT a minimum you should be: - Securing your root user account with MFA - Deleting any root user API credentials and NEVER use root user to create stuff - Carefully create an IAM user with MFA for your real deploy work - Set up AWS Budgets - Set up AWS Budget Alert (best first sign of an account compromise) - etc. etc. You need to do all of that before you create your first EC2 keypair and server

If you just need 'a machine hosted somewhere else', AWS is not a good fit, you'll have to bite off far more than you'd be willing to chew. If you are going to use it with multiple people, use multiple services, and already have knowledge and time to manage public cloud estates, then AWS is definitely the best place. For everything else: get a hosted/managed VM. There's flavours for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the costs and support are well-known quantities. Which provider works best depends on your location. Example: if you need a fat Mac do to some hardcore desktopping, MacStadium has you covered. Companies like Leaseweb also will give you exactly what you want, or perhaps Hetzner, or OVH. You'll want a Desktop server, not a Webserver. Example: renting an entire Dell R6515 just for yourself, $120 per month. 64GB RAM, 16 EPYC cores at 3GHz, 2TB NVMe storage. Want to get something cheaper? Random OVH box with about half the specs, and only 200GB storage, $40 per month. Comes with Windows Server Standard 2025. Some providers only have Linux, if that's what you want, you'd check out DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr etc.

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r/aws on Reddit: EC2 instance estimated cost

February 25, 2023 -

I am planning to use a shared t3 small instance from AWS. I will be needing the instance for 7 days per month. When I check the estimated cost using the AWS estimated billing calculator, it shows approx bill as $260 which is very high as that is around 20k INR per month.

So I wanted to ask people who use AWS frequently if the estimated cost provided is usually correct or way off? Please help me out.

Edit - on scrolling further in the 'configure Amazon EC2' under the calculator page, I came across the 'payment options' in which the 'compute savings plan' was selected by default with a reservation term of 3 years. This led to higher cost estimation. On choosing the 'On-Demand' option, the estimated cost came down to $17 per month.

Apologies from my end. Thank you so much for the help.

How much disk space and which disk are you provisioning. Typically you want to go for the smallest size GP3 (you can grow your volume, use EFS or another storage strategy) Also consider if you have a NAT GW this will cost you money. I think the best place to start is - MFA on your account Billing Alerts Come back to us and tell us what you want to host and we can tell you what could be “cost effective”

My T3 small costs ~ 3k inr/month. You sure of math?

reddit.com › r/aws › is downloadable data on aws pricing, for ec2 and other services, available anywhere?

r/aws on Reddit: Is downloadable data on AWS pricing, for EC2 and other services, available anywhere?

March 6, 2024 -

You can fill out forms to calculate AWS costs directly on the AWS calculator, like here: https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/Lambda . However, what I'm imagining is, those form inputs are backed by actual data, like the EC2 pricing tables here https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ showing stuff like t4g.nano: $0.0042/hr, etc..

Is there any possible way to download all this pricing data, perhaps as XML or JSON, through one of their APIs or some other means? If it's not available officially through an API of some sort, any ideas how to obtain it unofficially, or if it's even feasible?

I am imagining of making a personal calculator like https://www.pricekite.io, which uses that data to build a custom calculator. So wondering if it can be done, in any way, shape, or form.

https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/index.json may take a few moments to download, current version is 5.4GB.

Have a look at https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info

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r/aws on Reddit: Monthly cost of EC2 T2-micro, email quotes for a small business.

December 26, 2017 -

Good afternoon,

I'm helping out a friend. He has a moving company and I am about to create 5 websites for 5 different areas in the city for him.

The websites would be SPA, built in react, but otherwise static. The main feature he needs is for visitors to fill out a quote that will be emailed to him.

My current idea is to serve websites straight through S3, and build a single simple node server with middleware and API handler for each site. Is this architecture worth it? The traffic would be minimal, probably 1-50 hits a day at most. How much am I expecting him to be billed for running this thing 24/7? Is there other solution that would fit this need better, that I am not aware of?

I know Netlify has free hosting for such complexity and they have form handler for static websites but it is limited to 100 emails for a free tier.

Thank you!

TL:DR // How much would it cost to run T2-micro 24/7 with Node server that will handle no more than 100 API calls a day?

You have taken a look at AWS's monthly calculator, right?

I'd also reconsider using t3 instances instead of t2 - slightly cheaper, and they offer bursting without having to do any stuff to enable it.

Then again, it may actually be more cost effective to have a serverless design here with those tiny volumes - serve static assets on page via CloudFront, and have a Lambda function attached via API gateway that makes a call to Amazon SES to send outgoing.

The cost would basically be the sum of:

EC2 Instance costs (per hour)
EBS block store costs (per GB-month)
S3 storage costs (per GB)
Data transfer costs (per GB + per operation)

A t2.micro instance costs about $0.0116 per hour in US-East—multiply by 750 to get a rough monthly estimate, so about $8.70 per month.

... but there's a free tier!

There is a 12-month free tier that covers the cost of running a t2.micro instance for a year, so if it's a new AWS account you shouldn't need to pay for the EC2 instance the first year.

EBS also has a free tier (covering the first 30 GB, 2 million I/Os and 1 GB of snapshot storage), so it shouldn't cost anything at least in the first year assuming you don't exceed these thresholds.

S3 again also has a 12-month free tier, in this case covering 5 GB of standard storage, 20,000 GET requests and 2,000 Put Requests.. so it's possible you may not have to worry about S3 costs either if the traffic level is really as low as you claim.

And last but not least there is a 12-month free tier for data transfer as well that covers up to 15 GB of data transfer out (across all AWS services).

So it should be possible to run this application free of charge for the first year if your usage is low enough, but once the free tier expires there will be some costs like ~$10/month or around there if you stay at about the same usage level.

Lambda

An alternative to consider is using Lambda which will execute your code on-demand without having to keep a server instance running all the time. Lambda will quickly spin up one or multiple instances to handle whatever demand you have and you only get charged when Lambda needs to be invoked to execute your code.

Lambda is also part of AWS' permanent free tier, so you can continue using Lambda for free (up to 1 Million invocations per month) with no expiration date. By switching from an always-on instance to a serverless Lambda setup, you can potentially reduce the total monthly cost (after the 12-month free tier expires) to just pennies.

Lightsail

Lightsail is an alternative to AWS' EC2 service which packages server instances together with storage, data transfer, DNS management, etc. so you just pay one low monthly price and that should cover everything you need to host basic websites. Lightsail plans start at $3.50 per month which includes a single core 0.5 GB RAM server instance with 20 GB storage and 1 TB of monthly data transfer. Lightsail is free for the first month.

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r/aws on Reddit: AWS Price List Export?

October 28, 2023 -

Is it possible or is there a link to a csv with the current AWS prices? I am only really looking at EC2 instances but, been able to choose others resources would be a plus.

I did see the spreadsheet from mission cloud, but to get it you need to sing to their spam list.

Also, does anyone know if its possible to export the pricing list from CloudCraft and include the instance specs?

Depending on exactly what you're trying to do, you can use the billing API to get pricing details - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-list-bulk-api-step-2-find-available-price-list-files.html

You can use ec2instances.info and export the pricing (per region) to CSV.

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r/aws on Reddit: EC2 instance expensive

January 2, 2025 -

Can someone tell me why aws instances are so expensive?

I need a virtual machine to install Prometheus. On small providers like Netcup, STRATO, …. A 4gb RAM cost 4€/months.

The same in AWS is 3x more expensively even with reserved instances.

My goal was to keep everything in the same provider.

Why is AWS so expensive?

Thanks in advance

AWS is pay per use. 4eur/month is not expensive. Go buy a raspberry pi.

Your VPS providers run bare bones infra with minimal redundancy and they MASSIVELY oversubscribe their virtual machines so they can make a small fractional profit margin off of selling at the very lowest end of the cost niche. And the VPS SLA agreement is "best effort" for the commitment so you don't have any options if they don't give you the power or resources you signed up for at any given moment. The VPS model is good for some use cases and requirements but not all. AWS does not engage in the low end VPS market except maybe for some Lightsail product and even that is "expensive" if your cost target is 4€/month -- it's not that AWS is "expensive" it's more that they are chasing a market with different needs and requirements than you are looking for. The blunt truth is that AWS EC2 pricing is closely correlated to the raw cost of electricity in the global region the instance is offered in -- that is why the price for the same instance type differs across regions. AWS is built for speed, scale, agility and capability but it's never going to be "cheap" when a VPS host is the comparison -- here is one good example: If you follow the AWS best practices for a secured well architected multi-account AWS organization with a single workload VPC that contains a private subnet then your baseline monthly cost WITHOUT deploying a single server is going to be a few hundred $USD per month. And that is for an empty VPC with no running servers.

reddit.com › r/aws › how does ec2 work wrt pricing and features?

r/aws on Reddit: How does EC2 work wrt pricing and features?

August 7, 2025 -

I wanted to build an ML model using LSTMs. I don't expect it to be very large or anything. Something a single GPU would have been able to handle. I had access to a 4090, but lost access to the server after moving to a different university. There are other GitHub repos related to what I'm doing that I'd like to run as well. Is using AWS EC2 any different than having your personal server that you ssh to? What happens if I stop working and connect to it the next day? Am I charged for the whole duration or just the times I am working? Does my environment and files still stay or do I have to set it up again? I've never used any cloud services before and wanted to be completely sure about what I am getting into.

The cost of EC2 is divided into two parts: Computing and Disk. If you upload an instance, you will be paying per hour until you pause it, however, even when pausing, you will only be charged for the disk (as your files will remain there), and not for the computation of the instance since it will be paused. Practical example: The cost of a t3.medium Linux instance is $0.04/hour and the cost of 100Gb on disk is $0.01/hour. Instance - you have the option of not paying when you pause Disc - pays while it exists, only stops paying if deleted

When you start an EC2 instance, you're billed per hour basis. If you're working on it and then stop it (not terminate, just stop), AWS stops charging for compute, but you still pay for the storage (EBS volume) where your OS, files, and environment live. That storage charge is pretty small compared to the GPU cost. So if you stop working and stop the instance, then come back the next day and start it again, you’ll only pay for the time it was running. And yes, your environment and files stay exactly as they were unless you terminate the instance. Few tips to keep in mind for futuristic point of view: - - EC2 instances with GPUs (like p3 or g5) are expensive per hour. Try to stop them when not in use. - Use Spot Instances if your training can handle interruptions they are way cheaper. For this you need to learn about how spot instances works. - Set up an AMI (image) once your environment is ready, so if anything happens you can recreate it easily. - Back up important data to S3 or elsewhere, just in case. - If you any elastic IP it is charged now. if you are not bound toward IP you don't need to use that. Bottom line: it's not that different from a personal server, just with better control over cost and scalability. Just remember to stop the instance when you're done for the day.

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r/aws on Reddit: Overpriced for an EC2 instance?

December 3, 2023 -

I have finished completely deploying my side project yesterday that was intended mainly for personal use but I was planning on potentially trying to market it in the future, so far the only activity on the website I have gotten is me occasionally loading the website for a few minutes and I have been working on it from time to time throughout the last month while the instances were up. I am using the lowest billing plan possible, I know that AWS apparently got rid of the free tier instances, but I was charged 20$ today for the current month with practically zero actual activity on the website? I have been wondering if there are any other options you could recommend to switch hosting platforms. Also do you think such a high cost could be due to scrape bots visiting my website for search optimization or something else? On cloudflare it shows that I have around 50 users loading my website daily but I have never advertised it in any way so I am assuming they are just bots. Could EC2 be charging extra because the bots are accessing my website? Is there some way to prevent it from happening?

Couple of things to take a look at: AWS will break down your bill by resource - this will tell you if the costs you're seeing are all EC2 hosting costs Typically, if all you're doing is hosting a website there's probably better (serverless) ways to do it rather than dropping it on an EC2. This will keep you from paying for uptime when folks aren't hitting your site if you wanna stick with the current architecture, you may wanna look at reserved instance pricing if you haven't already. Default on-demand pricing is always gonna be more expensive.

free tier is limited time for new users on the smallest instance as a free trial type thing. So you can see how the thing works before you start something real. There is network charges, but they are real small, EC2 doesn't really charge by hit or by use or anything. It's deal is being mostly fixed to whatever type of computer you make it. If you were transfering gigabytes the data transfer costs would be noticable, but mostly you are just charged for the CPU/Storage/etc of the virtual device you are using.

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r/aws on Reddit: AWS EC2 Pricing

March 17, 2024 -

I got an email with this: Product AWS Free Tier Usage as of 08/23/2024 Usage Limit AWS Free Tier Usage Limit AmazonEC2 658.754723 Hrs 750 Hrs 750.0 Hrs for free for 12 months as part of AWS Free Usage Tier (Global-BoxUsage:freetrial)

What do they means that my free tier is almost over?

I pay around 600/mo for my instances

Even if you pay for instances, you still have some free tier allocation for instance types allowed

Aws gives you max 750 hours per month of free usage for EC2 and rest hours will be billed. So the mail is saying how much of free tier left for the month

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r/aws on Reddit: Can someone please help me understand pricing for EC2 instances with elastic IPs?

December 27, 2020 -

I am a hobbyist web developer and I'm using AWS to host my personal projects. I am currently a free tier customer running a LAMP stack on an EC2 server (t2.micro) with one connected elastic IP address that I use to point my DNS to the server.

As far as I understand, with the free tier I am eligible to have my EC2 instance permanently running for the first year of being a customer, with no additional charges for the elastic IP address.

When this ends, how much can I expect to pay for this service?

My projects are very small and I am the only real user. In an average month, I may access it a few thousand times (mostly API requests and the like).

From reading their pricing information, it seems that to have my EC2 permanently running for a month, I will be billed approximately $8.whatever, does this sound accurate?

I've read some Reddit posts and some people are saying that they pay in the range of $10/month, while others are paying hundreds of thousands.

I am a complete noob when it comes to AWS so I apologize if my questions are stupid, I just really don't want to wake up to a $10,000 bill one morning because I didn't understand the pricing details.

I appreciate any and all advice!

When an elastic IP is attached to an instance, it’s free. You only pay if you keep the ip around with no insurance attached. The cost is $5/month for each unattached IP, which is when it is not attached an instance.

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r/aws on Reddit: ELI5: How EC2 costs are calculated

March 13, 2019 -

I currently have an ec2 instance with windows server 2016. I use it as a web server for two different websites that I have created. One is a resume site and the other is a project I am working on. Neither of these sites get very much traffic, however I am being charged about $16.50 a month. I figured that was pretty standard but after speaking with a coworker I was told that I am way overpaying.

So how exactly is the cost calculated? I can't find any documentation explaining if they bill by the size of my instance, the amount of traffic on the site, etc. If someone could lead me in the right direction to learn more about how my bill is calculated and how I could reduce costs I would greatly appreciate it.

Furthermore, I should mention that I have looked at the billing section of AWS but only found a break down of where I am being charged. (All on ec2, surprise surprise)

So forgive my bluntness - but have you actually read the EC2 pricing info listed here https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ ? Additionally, you need to look at EBS pricing (which is listed on that same page) and any Route53 charges you may have. I understand that AWS is easily accessible but it's usage and getting the most out of it is a discipline that people spend countless hours learning and charge a pretty penny to hire. TBH get off the AWS hype train, evaluate what you need and look at the landscape of options/competitors that are available

If you are just running a simple server with low load you may want to consider moving to AWS Lightsail. You can probably run what you need for $8/month, and it has a simplified billing model so you don’t need to worry about it. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

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r/aws on Reddit: EC2 instance cost

December 13, 2023 -

Hello i am new to aws i have never used it before and i want to create a windows instance i selected t3.large and everything else was the free tier eligible , how much would it cost to run the instance for a month ? ( the monthly cost ) Thanks in advance EDIT : SOLVED Thanks to the aws support and the guy in the comments i will leave this post so if people have the same question can find the answer

About $60/m for Linux, or $80/m for Windows. There's a great pricing table at https://ec2instances.info - you can see the daily/weekly/monthly costs of all the instances, with regional pricing.

Hi there! You can find info for our EC2 on-demand pricing, here: https://go.aws/3wCoTvb . If you're looking for a more precise estimate, just click 'Request a pricing quote' to reach out to a member of our sales team. They have the tools and visibility to help you make the best decisions for your business. - Randi S.

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r/aws on Reddit: Unexpected pricing jump on May 1st, 2024

May 6, 2024 -

Hi folks,

I've observed an unexpected, unwelcome jump in pricing on May 1st exactly.

In Cost Explorer, I immediately saw this was related to EC2, narrowed that to "ec2-instances" rather than "ec2-other," and then narrowed it down to "BoxUsage:t2.small" by using "Group By: Usage Type."

Reviewing AWS pricing, I can't find anything that should fall under "BoxUsage: t2.small" except for the number of t2.small instances in operation. Data transfer costs are a separate usage type. EBS volumes are a separate usage type. EBS, etc. falls under "ec2-other".

Of course, I could have added more T2 instances close to that date. So I checked my CloudTrail event log for definitive evidence. But it shows zero new instances of any kind between April 29th and May 11th. That seems pretty definite.

Was there a T2 price increase on May 1st? Any way to tell? I can't find straightforward historical data. The main increase I'm aware of recently is the $2 billing per IP4 address, but that came in on February 1st.

Does "BoxUsage: t2.small" have any variable component other than the number of T2 instance-hours?

Thanks!

Hello there, I wasn't able to locate a pricing change to our T2 instances in May. I suggest reaching out to our Billing Support team directly for assistance understanding these charges. You can create a case from our Support Center via this link: http://go.aws/support-center . - Rick N.

Have you reached the end of your 1 year free-tier? Edit: can’t remember if small is included in free tier or if it is something smaller….

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r/django on Reddit: AWS EC2 + RDS + S3 = so expensive, even with zero users

July 21, 2024 -

Hey folks!

I launched my SaaS project(and it has zero users) with a monthly cost:

AWS

Relational Database ServiceUSD - 17.91
Elastic Compute CloudUSD - 10.71
Virtual Private CloudUSD - 6.82
Route 53USD - 0.51
Simple Storage Service - 0.03

Total: 35.98$

Mailgul(email notification):

35$ - 50k monthly emails 10 domains

So it comes down to ~$70/mon

Two thoughts:

I used AWS because I new how to set it up quickly.
Mailgun was recommend to me by a friend. I though my project will get users, but unfortunately it is not getting any. I'm switching to a cheaper plan that is 15$ per month now.

Can you please recommend what is cheaper alternatives out there. I now data bases could get expensive, but in my case I didn’t even hit 100 users and I'm already paying so much.

Thank you.

There may be other services with more generous free tiers. But AWS's per unit pricing is generally lowest in industry. Your best bet for a tiny app is probably AWS Aurora serverless for the db and AWS severless for your compute. You could probably cut those costs down to a tenth of that or lower. That being said on the scale or cloud hosting costs $70 is nothing. I work for a pretty small company now, and our costs are in the high tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands a month. I've worked places that burned many millions a month. Building and maintaining software can be really costly, which is why it is fairly rare to see SaaS tools maintained by individuals out of personal budgets. Have you considered a business loan?

Use EC2 to run your own DB, possibly the same machine as your app, use SES for email. Not sure why VPC is costing that much. If just 1 EC2 then that’s $12. Still there are cheaper alternatives but if you have big dreams of scaling big then AWS may be worth the initial investment.

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r/aws on Reddit: Basic Question on EC2 Pricing

January 6, 2020 -

Sorry if I used the wrong flair. I'm new to AWS EC2, but looking to get an instance to do memory intensive work.

Some background: Want to work with a dataset, but it doesn't fit into memory on my personal computer.

I'm worried about the charges I'll accumulate because I'm working with something unfamilar and I expect a lot of buggy code. I expect to spend more time debugging than actually running my code.

Is there a workaround for this, did I misunderstand how the pricing works, or do I have to suck it up and deal with it?

You can easily compare specs/pricing here: https://www.ec2instances.info/ i hope this clears your doubts :)

Not sure what the question is...? You pay EC2 by the hour. For as long as your instance is running you pay a certain amount every hour (billed monthly). When you don't need it you just shut it down and it won't cost you anything. You can restart it later when needed. Pricing is pretty linear, you pay twice as much for an instance twice as big. Google "EC2 pricing" for a price chart. If memory is what matters to you, find the instance type with the most memory at the lowest hourly price. You may want to take a look at Lightsail, it's a simpler form of EC2.