AWS billing refers to the process of tracking and paying for the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and services. AWS uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model, which means that users only pay for the resources they consume.
Amazon sports a complex pricing model. As simple as the pay-for-what-you-use model sounds, there are several nuances to every service from data used to computing components chosen that can easily let users blow through their entire budget. That’s not to say AWS is an inherently expensive platform and can be adapted to with proper planning and understanding of the contributing factors to billing.
In our latest blog post on investigating AWS bill issues, we explored issues with CloudWatch and EC2
Analyzing AWS Billing Issues If you're running software on AWS, then each month you'll end up troubleshooting AWS billing issues. This last month, my AWS bill for one of our internal accounts was higher than expected. Surprise, surprise! I started to investigate the...