I enabled CloudTrail to debug some sns interaction. I stored them to a new s3 bucket. I also enabled management events as part of this trail.
The next day I got an alert that I was hitting my free tier limit.
- 2000.0 Requests for free for 12 months as part of AWS Free Usage Tier (Global-Requests-Tier1)
It appears that relates to Puts to s3 (using object lambdas? )
I have about 100 events from my sns and 1900 from aws management.
On the pricing page it states :
You can deliver one copy of your ongoing management events to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket for free by creating trails. Limits may apply.
I have stopped management event logging.
Did I misconfigure something?
Do I need to make a separate bucket or trail for management events?
Did I misunderstand the pricing?
All of my regions have ~150-200 free events USW2 has 11 paid events and 3700 free events
AWS CloudTrail USW2-DataEventsRecorded USD 0.00 0.000001 per data event recorded in US West (Oregon) region 11 Events USD 0.00 AWS CloudTrail USW2-FreeEventsRecorded USD 0.00 0.0 per free event recorded in US West (Oregon) region 3,747 Events