Can someone please help me understand pricing for EC2 instances with elastic IPs?
EC2 cost in a month
Do all EC2 instances now effectively have a $4/mo hidden fee?
Overpriced for an EC2 instance?
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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!