Abnormal Billing from RDS

Question

I just used the RDS Aurora MySQL for study purpose. At first, I was forgot to remove the instance after I'm done with it. But after realizing there's so many bill in my bill and payment tab, i took a move to remove the RDS Instances.

I also delete all the backup, snapshots, automated backup. But still, my bill still increased. Is this possible?

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Even my resources tab show that i use no service anymore.

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Answer

Try to look at Cost Explorer
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Relational Database Service (RDS)
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You can also contact AWS Support and ask for a refund. Explain the situation in that you were learning AWS and forgot to remove the test instance.

Answer

HELLO,

Even after deleting the RDS instances and associated backups, your bill might still show an increase if there are other services or resources running within your AWS account. Here are a few things to consider:

Data Transfer Costs: If your RDS instance was transferring data in or out of the AWS region, you might still incur data transfer costs even after deleting the instance. Check your data transfer usage in the AWS billing dashboard.

Elastic IP Addresses: If you associated Elastic IP addresses with your RDS instances and did not release them, you could still be charged for those addresses.

Other Services: Review your AWS account for any other services that might be running and incurring costs. This could include EC2 instances, S3 storage, or any other AWS resources.

Delayed Billing: Sometimes, AWS billing can have a delay in reflecting changes. It's possible that the charges you're seeing are for usage incurred before you deleted the RDS instances.

Reserved Instances: If you had reserved instances or other long-term commitments, you might still be charged for those even if you delete the associated resources.

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT BILLING  FOLLOW THE LINK
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/User_DBInstanceBilling.html

If you still facing bill issue you can contact AWS support:
https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/

Abnormal Billing from RDS

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