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Hi There
You can use the following Usage Types to analyze Data Transfer Out charges for Lightsail
Region-TotalDataXfer-Out-Bytes: The total amount of data transferred out (in gigabytes).
Region-DataXfer-Out-Overage-Bytes: The amount of data transferred out to the internet or public IPs that is over the allowance of the instance or database plan(s) used (in gigabytes).
In cost explorer, you can change the "Dimension" to "Usage Type". See screenshot below for an example of costs by usage type
If you want to see the actual number of GB, you need to filter on one of the above usage types:
See https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/understanding-your-amazon-lightsail-bill
Thanks for your reply. That did get me the information I was looking for. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to allow me a way to identify which lightsail instance.
As you are aware that lightsail is a VPS, it has many other integrated resources - instance is one them.
It appears to me you are very close to find the data quantity usage/monthly of your instance. If you go to "Bills" on the Global dashboard, click on Bills, you will find some tabs on this page. Click "Charges by service" and on the right (almost middle of the page) click on "+Expand all" right side of the page. See under the "Usage Quantity" how much data you use on the particular month. You also see the active services under your account.
Please advise whehter this information came in any assistance.
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You can change the granularity to Daily. THen you will be able to see the exact day that the Region-DataXfer-Out-Overage-Bytes kicked in.
You can use tagging to achieve this. See https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-organizing-costs-using-tags
It took a bit more time, but it turns out that even though I tagged my instances, there is an additional step for them to appear in the billing/usage reports: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/activating-tags.html
So that should make them appear, although they do not at this time. It says it can take 24 hours for tags to appear after activation. Thanks for your help, Matt!