Track your Free Tier usage for Amazon EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Track your Free Tier usage for Amazon EC2

You can use Amazon EC2 without incurring charges if you've been an AWS customer for less than 12 months and you stay within the AWS Free Tier usage limits. It's important to track your Free Tier usage to avoid billing surprises. If you exceed the Free Tier limits, you'll incur standard pay-as-go charges.

Note

If you've been an AWS customer for more than 12 months, you're no longer eligible for Free Tier usage and you won't see the EC2 Free Tier box that is described in the following procedure.

To track your Free Tier usage

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose EC2 Dashboard.

  3. Find the EC2 Free Tier box (at top right).

    The EC2 Free Tier box in the EC2 Dashboard.

  4. In the EC2 Free Tier box, check your Free Tier usage, as follows:

    • Under EC2 Free Tier offers in use, take note of the warnings:

      • End of month forecast – This warns that you will incur charges this month if you continue with your current usage pattern.

      • Exceeds Free Tier – This warns that you've exceeded your Free Tier limits and you're already incurring charges.

    • Under Offer usage (monthly), take note of your usage of Linux instances, Windows instances, and EBS storage. The percentage indicates how much of your Free Tier limits you've used this month. If you're at 100%, you will incur charges for further use.

      Note

      This information appears only after you've created an instance. However, usage information is not updated in real time; it's updated three times a day.

  5. To avoid incurring further charges, delete any resources that are either incurring charges now, or will incur charges if you exceed your Free Tier limit usage.

    • For the instructions to delete your instance, see Terminate Amazon EC2 instances.

    • To check if you have resources in other Regions that might be incurring charges, in the EC2 Free Tier box, choose View Global EC2 resources to open the EC2 Global View. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Global View.

  6. To view your resource usage for all AWS services under the AWS Free Tier, at the bottom of the EC2 Free Tier box, choose View all AWS Free Tier offers. For more information, see Using the AWS Free Tier in the AWS Billing User Guide.