Finding AMI billing and usage details

In the Amazon EC2 console, you can view the AMI billing information from the AMIs page or from the Instances page. You can also find billing information using the AWS CLI or the instance metadata service.

The following fields can help you verify AMI charges on your bill:

Find AMI billing information (console)

Follow these steps to view AMI billing information in the Amazon EC2 console:

Find AMI billing information (AWS CLI)

To find the AMI billing information using the AWS CLI, you need to know the AMI ID. If you don't know the AMI ID, you can get it from the instance using the describe-instances command.

To find the AMI ID

If you know the instance ID, you can get the AMI ID for the instance by using the describe-instances command. The --query option displays only the value of ImageId in the output.

aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --instance-ids i-123456789abcde123 \
    --query Reservations[*].Instances[].ImageId

The following is example output.

[
    "ami-0123456789EXAMPLE"
]

To find the AMI billing information

If you know the AMI ID, you can use the describe-images command to get the AMI platform and usage operation details.

$ aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids ami-0123456789EXAMPLE

The following example output shows the PlatformDetails and UsageOperation fields. In this example, the ami-0123456789EXAMPLE platform is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the usage operation and billing code is RunInstances:0010.

{
    "Images": [
        {
            "VirtualizationType": "hvm", 
            "Description": "Provided by Red Hat, Inc.",
            "Hypervisor": "xen", 
            "EnaSupport": true, 
            "SriovNetSupport": "simple", 
            "ImageId": "ami-0123456789EXAMPLE",
            "State": "available", 
            "BlockDeviceMappings": [
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sda1", 
                    "Ebs": {
                        "SnapshotId": "snap-111222333444aaabb", 
                        "DeleteOnTermination": true, 
                        "VolumeType": "gp2", 
                        "VolumeSize": 10, 
                        "Encrypted": false
                    }
                }
            ], 
            "Architecture": "x86_64", 
            "ImageLocation": "123456789012/RHEL-8.0.0_HVM-20190618-x86_64-1-Hourly2-GP2", 
            "RootDeviceType": "ebs", 
            "OwnerId": "123456789012",
            "PlatformDetails": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux",
            "UsageOperation": "RunInstances:0010", 
            "RootDeviceName": "/dev/sda1", 
            "CreationDate": "2019-05-10T13:17:12.000Z", 
            "Public": true, 
            "ImageType": "machine", 
            "Name": "RHEL-8.0.0_HVM-20190618-x86_64-1-Hourly2-GP2"
        }
    ]
}