Amazon EC2 Billing Explained: What Are You Actually Paying For?
Amazon EC2 often looks straightforward when you first estimate the cost. Choose an instance type, check the hourly rate, estimate how many hours it will run, and calculate the monthly cost. But when the AWS bill arrives, the amount associated with running an EC2-based workload can look very different from that original calculation. The reason […]
Amazon RDS Billing Explained: What Are You Actually Paying For?
Understand Amazon RDS billing, including database instance, storage, backup, snapshot, Multi-AZ, I/O and data transfer charges, plus how to investigate an unexpected RDS bill.
Amazon RDS Pricing Explained: How Much Does RDS Cost?
Amazon RDS makes running a relational database on AWS much easier, but estimating the monthly cost isn’t always as simple as looking at the database instance price. Your RDS bill can include the database instance, storage, backups, I/O, Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas and data transfer. That’s why a database that initially looks inexpensive can cost […]
Understanding the AWS Services That Make Up Your Bill
Now that we’ve covered the basics of AWS pricing, let’s look at the services you’ll most likely use. One thing I tell people is this: Don’t try to learn all of AWS at once. AWS offers more than 200 services, but most websites and applications rely on fewer than ten core services. Once you understand […]
AWS Pricing Explained: How Much Does AWS Cost In 2026?
If you’ve ever opened an AWS bill and wondered, “How did it get to this amount?”, you’re definitely not alone. AWS pricing looks simple at first. You use a service, consume resources and pay for what you use. But once you start combining compute, storage, databases, networking, backups and other services, estimating the actual monthly […]