Need to pause AWS service but continue to get small charges

Question

I used AWS briefly and may use it again.  However, for now I want to get rid of all my AWS services and not be charged until I need it again.  I have deleted/removed every EC2 machine that i had.  Every month I get charged about $0.40 and the description is just "EC2-other".  I have no idea what else to remove.  How can I stop these charges?  I would prefer not to delete my account.

Answer

It is likely when you launched your EC2 instance, you also launched our block storage called Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). At AWS, we decouple your storage and compute. When you deleted your EC2 instance, your EBS volume would separate from the compute environment and persist independently until attached to another compute instance. This would explain your charges from "EC2-Other". I would search for that in your AWS Console and see if you have that volume that may be incurring small charges.

Alternatively, to ensure all your resources are deleted, use aws-nuke (https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke).

Need to pause AWS service but continue to get small charges

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