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$0.138 per GB-month of provisioned gp2 storage running PostgreSQL

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Hello everyone. I am new to AWS RDS. A couple of days ago I deleted my RDS instance but still getting billed. Billing console shows that gp2 storage increasing everyday and bills me approximately 1,5$ per day. I checked all possible backups in AWS Console but didn't find helpful information, I even don't know what kind of backup there are so it bills me everyday. The thing is "Exploiting charges by generating unfamiliar usage while claiming to be free is equivalent to fraud". How to stop it, please help!

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Migration & ModernizationAnalyticsDatabaseManagement & GovernanceStorageCloud Financial Management
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midastrash
asked a year ago335 views
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I just need to so recreate deleted instance and turn-off "Auto-Scaling" and "Enable automated backups" options. My billing dashboard stopped to increase and got fixed cost. That is the solution

midastrash
answered a year ago
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Giovanni Lauria
reviewed a month ago
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Hi There

Can you post a screenshot of the bill where you are seeing this charge using the steps outlined in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/invoice.html. On the Bills page, select the month from the Date list and view the summary and details of your charges for that month. Here you should be seeing which region, service and the reason for the charges. Is it possible you have an RDS instance running in another region that you were not aware of?

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Matt-B
answered a year ago
  • midastrash
    a year ago

    I think there is only one region and I know about it. This region is initial region that I choose while creating RDS. Anyways I am posting screenshot in another thread

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midastrash
answered a year ago
  • Matt-B EXPERT
    a year ago

    Hi There, you mentioned that "Billing console shows that gp2 storage increasing everyday and bills me approximately 1,5$ per day". However i only see a total of $9.80. After you deleted your RDS instance, did the gp2 billing amount stop increasing? The 9.80 charge is not related to backups, its the actual storage used by your RDS instance, so if you deleted the instance, you will only be billed for the amount you used up until deletion time. According to this screenshot, you were using a total of 91.011GB (20GB included in free tier, 71.011 GB is charged at the regular rate)

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In case anyone else ends up here trying to track down the cause of high daily gp2 spend, try grouping your Cost Explorer by Region. By doing this I found that I had somehow deployed a snapshot to a region other than my primary region. Due to some bugs that snapshot was spamming IOPS and causing me higher than normal GP2 fees. It was challenging to track down until I learned how to better use the Cost Explorer.

bigDaddyDangler
answered a year ago

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