Tracking your AWS Free Tier usage

You can track your AWS Free Tier usage in the following ways:

• Turn on Free Tier usage alerts in Billing preferences. By default, AWS Free Tier usage alerts automatically notifies you over email when you exceed 85 percent of the Free Tier limit for each service. You can also configure AWS Budgets to track your usage to 100 percent of the Free Tier limit by setting a zero spend budget using the template.

• Review your AWS Free Tier usage by using the Free Tier page in the Billing and Cost Management console.

Using AWS Free Tier usage alerts

You can use AWS Free Tier usage alerts to track and take action on your cost and usage. For more information about this feature, see Managing your costs with AWS Budgets.

AWS Free Tier usage alerts automatically notifies you over email when you exceed 85 percent of your Free Tier limit for each service. For additional tracking, you can configure AWS Budgets to track your usage to 100% of the Free Tier limit by setting a zero spend budget using the template. You can also filter your budget to track individual services.

For example, you can set up a budget to send you an alert when you’re forecasted to exceed 100 percent of the Free Tier limit for Amazon Elastic Block Store. To set up a usage budget, see Creating a usage budget.

AWS Free Tier usage alerts cover Free Tier offerings active in the current month, such as the first 25 GB of Amazon DynamoDB storage or the first 10 custom Amazon CloudWatch metrics. It's common to have all three types of AWS Free Tier offerings active within the first 12 months.

For example, you use Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon S3. You will see Free Tier usage for those usage types in the Billing and Cost Management console, Free Tier page. After using SageMaker for two months, the short-term trial will end while Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 continue. After 12 months from account creation, the Amazon EC2 12-month free period expires, but Amazon S3 will continue because the service offers Always free status.

When you exceed the Free Tier limit for a service, AWS sends an email to the email address that you used to create your account (the AWS account root user). To change the email address for AWS Free Tier usage alerts, see the following procedure:

To change the email address for AWS Free Tier usage alerts

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Billing console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

2. Under Preferences in the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.

3. For Alert preferences, choose Edit.

4. Enter the email address to receive the usage alerts.

5. Choose Update.

AWS Budgets usage alerts for 85 percent of the Free Tier limit are automatically activated for all individual AWS accounts, but not for a management account in an AWS Organizations. If you own a management account, you must opt in to get AWS Free Tier usage alerts. Use the following procedure to opt in or out of Free Tier usage alerts.

To opt in or out of AWS Free Tier usage alerts

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Billing console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

2. Under Preferences in the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.

3. For Alert preferences, choose Edit.

4. Select Receive AWS Free Tier alerts to opt in to Free Tier usage alerts. To opt out, clear Receive AWS Free Tier alerts.

5. Choose Update.

Recommended actions for Free Tier

If you're eligible for AWS Free Tier and you use a free tier offering, you can track your usage with the Recommended actions widget on the Billing and Cost Management home page. This widget shows recommendations if your usage exceeded 85% of any service's free tier usage limits.

The following conditions might limit whether you see AWS Free Tier data:

• You use an AWS service that doesn't offer Free Tier

• Your Free Tier has expired

• You access AWS through an AWS Organizations member account

• You use an AWS service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) or AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions

For more information, see Recommended actions.

Trackable AWS Free Tier services

With AWS, you can track how much you used AWS Free Tier services and what service usage types you used. Usage types are the specific type of usage that AWS tracks. For example, the usage type BoxUsage:freetier.micro means that you used an Amazon EC2 micro instance.

The AWS Free Tier usage alerts and the Top AWS Free Tier Services by Usage table cover both expiring and non-expiring AWS Free Tier offerings. You can track the following services and usage types.

Service	Usage type	Free Tier type
AWS Amplify	BuildDuration DataStorage DataTransferOut HostingComputeRequestCount HostingComputeRequestDuration	12 Months Free
AWS AppSync	ConnectionDuration GraphQLInvocation GraphQLNotification ResponseData	12 Months Free
AWS Audit Manager	Resource-Assessment-Collected	Free Trial
AWS Budgets	ActionEnabledBudgetsUsage	Always Free
AWS CloudFormation	Resource-Invocation-Count-FreeTier	Always Free
AWS CodeArtifact	Requests TimedStorage-ByteHrs	Always Free
AWS CodeCommit	User-Month	Always Free
AWS CodePipeline	actionExecutionMinute activePipeline	Always Free
AWS Data Pipeline	AWS-Activities-infreq AWS-Preconditions-infreq	12 Months Free
AWS Data Transfer	DataTransfer-Out-Bytes DataTransfer-Regional-Bytes	Always Free
AWS Database Migration Service	InstanceUsg:dms.t2.micro InstanceUsg:dms.t3.micro	Always Free
AWS DeepRacer	ServiceUse-Train-Evaluate-Job TimedStorage-GigabyteHrs	Free Trial
AWS Directory Service	MicrosoftAD-DC-Usage Small-Directory-Usage	Free Trial
AWS Elemental MediaConnect	DataTransfer-Out-Bytes	Always Free
AWS Glue	Catalog-Request Catalog-Storage	Always Free
AWS IoT Greengrass	ActiveGGC-Devices	12 Months Free
AWS HealthImaging	API-Requests-Core EarlyDelete-ActiveByteHrs TimedStorage-ActiveByteHrs TimedStorage-ArchiveByteHrs	12 Months Free
AWS IoT	ActionsExecuted ConnectionMinutes LoRaWAN-FUOTA Messages RegistryAndShadowOperations RulesTriggered Solved-Positions	12 Months Free
AWS IoT Analytics	DataProcessing-Bytes DataScanned-TB ProcessedStorage-ByteHrs RawStorage-ByteHrs	12 Months Free
AWS IoT Device Defender	Detect	Free Trial
AWS IoT Device Management	JobExecutions	12 Months Free
AWS IoT Events	Messages	12 Months Free
AWS IoT TwinMaker	IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier1-Queries IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier1-UnifiedDataAccess IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier2-Queries IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier2-UnifiedDataAccess IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier3-Queries IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier3-UnifiedDataAccess IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier4-Queries IoTTwinMaker-BaseTier4-UnifiedDataAccess IoTTwinMaker-UnifiedDataAccess	12 Months Free
AWS Key Management Service	KMS-Requests	Always Free
AWS Lambda	Lambda-GB-Second Lambda-Streaming-Response-Processed-Bytes Request	Always Free
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces	API-Request EnvironmentHours	Always Free
AWS OpsWorks	OpsWorks-Chef-Automate OpsWorks-Puppet-Enterprise	12 Months Free
AWS RoboMaker	SimulationUnitHour	Free Trial
AWS Security Hub	OtherProduct:PaidFindingsIngestion RuleEvaluation	Always Free
AWS Service Catalog	SC-API-Calls	Always Free
AWS Step Functions	StateTransition	Always Free
AWS Storage Gateway	Uploaded-Bytes	Always Free
AWS Supply Chain	ADPSiteProductCount SiteProductCount StorageSize	Free Trial
AWS Systems Manager	AWS-Auto-ScriptDuration-Tier3 AWS-Auto-Steps-Tier1 IM-Notifications-Tier1	Always Free
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud	PublicIPv4:InUseAddress	12 Months Free
AWS WAF	AMR-BotControl-Request AMR-BotControl-Targeted-Request AMR-FraudControl-Request ShieldProtected-AMR-BotControl-Request ShieldProtected-AMR-BotControl-Targeted-Request ShieldProtected-AMR-FraudControl-Request	Always Free
AWS X-Ray	XRay-TracesAccessed XRay-TracesStored	Always Free
Amazon API Gateway	ApiGatewayHttpRequest ApiGatewayMessage ApiGatewayMinute ApiGatewayRequest	12 Months Free
Amazon AppStream	stream-hrs:720p:g2 stream.standard.large-ib	Free Trial
Amazon Augmented AI	A2ICustom-Objects A2IRek-Objects A2ITextract-Objects	12 Months Free
Amazon Braket	Simulators-Task	Free Trial
Amazon Cloud Directory	Requests-Tier1 Requests-Tier2 TimedStorage-ByteHrs	12 Months Free
Amazon CloudFront	DataTransfer-Out-Bytes Executions-CloudFrontFunctions Invalidations Requests-Tier1	Always Free
Amazon CloudSearch	DocumentBatchUpload IndexDocuments SearchInstance:m1.large SearchInstance:m1.small SearchInstance:m2.2xlarge SearchInstance:m2.xlarge SearchInstance:m3.2xlarge SearchInstance:m3.large SearchInstance:m3.medium SearchInstance:m3.xlarge SearchInstance:m4.2xlarge SearchInstance:m4.large SearchInstance:m4.xlarge SearchInstance:search.2xlarge SearchInstance:search.large SearchInstance:search.medium SearchInstance:search.previousgeneration.2xlarge SearchInstance:search.previousgeneration.large SearchInstance:search.previousgeneration.small SearchInstance:search.previousgeneration.xlarge SearchInstance:search.small SearchInstance:search.xlarge	Free Trial
Amazon Cognito	CognitoEnterpriseMAU CognitoUserPoolMAU	Always Free
Amazon Cognito Sync	CognitoSyncOperation TimedStorage-ByteHrs	Always Free
Amazon Comprehend	Comprehend-DC-Custom Comprehend-DE-Custom Comprehend-EA Comprehend-KP Comprehend-LD Comprehend-SA Comprehend-Syntax ContainsPiiEntities DetectEvents DetectPiiEntities DetectTgtSentiment DetectTopics DocClassification-INSURANCE DocClassification-MORTGAGE DocClassification-PromptSafety	12 Months Free
Amazon Connect	chat-message end-customer-mins tasks	12 Months Free
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles	MonthlyConnectBaseProfiles MonthlyProfiles	12 Months Free
Amazon Connect Voice ID	Authentication Enrollment FraudDetection	12 Months Free
Amazon DataZone	DataZoneCompute DataZoneRequests DataZoneStorage DataZoneUsers	Free Trial
Amazon DevOps Guru	DevOpsGuru-APICalls ResourceGroup-A-usagehours ResourceGroup-B-usagehours	Free Trial
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)	BackupUsage InstanceUsage:db.t3.medium StorageIOUsage StorageUsage	Free Trial
Amazon DynamoDB	ReadCapacityUnit-Hrs ReplWriteCapacityUnit-Hrs Streams-Requests TimedStorage-ByteHrs WriteCapacityUnit-Hrs	Always Free
Amazon Elastic Container Registry	TimedStorage-ByteHrs	12 Months Free
Amazon ElastiCache	NodeUsage:cache.t1.micro	12 Months Free
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud	BoxUsage:freetier.micro BoxUsage:freetrial CW:AlarmMonitorUsage CW:MetricMonitorUsage CW:Requests CarrierIP:IdleAddress CarrierIP:Remap DataProcessing-Bytes DataTransfer-Out-Bytes DataTransfer-Regional-Bytes EBS:SnapshotUsage EBS:VolumeIOUsage EBS:VolumeUsage ElasticIP:IdleAddress ElasticIP:Remap LCUUsage LoadBalancerUsage	12 Months Free
Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public	Internet-ECRPublic-Out-Bytes TimedStorage-ByteHrs	12 Months Free
Amazon Elastic Container Service	ECS-Anywhere-Instance-hours-WithFree	Free Trial
Amazon Elastic File System	TimedStorage-ByteHrs	12 Months Free
Amazon Elastic Transcoder	ets-audio-success ets-hd-success ets-sd-success	12 Months Free
Amazon Forecast	DataInjection ForecastDataPoints TrainingHours	Free Trial
Amazon Fraud Detector	FraudPrediction-AccountTakeoverInsights FraudPrediction-OnlineFraudInsights FraudPrediction-RulesOnly FraudPrediction-TransactionFraudInsights HostingHrs StoredDataset TrainingHrs	Free Trial
Amazon GameLift	BoxUsage:c3.large DailyActiveUser FlexMatchMatchmakingHrs FlexMatchPlayerPackages GLAGameSessionsPlaced GLAServerProcessConnMin	12 Months Free
AWS HealthLake	FHIRDataStorage FHIRQueries	Always Free
Amazon IVS Chat	Messaging-Deliveries Messaging-Requests	12 Months Free
Amazon Interactive Video Service	Input-Basic-Hours Output-SD-Hours Real-Time-Encode-Hours Real-Time-Hours Stages-Participant-Hours	12 Months Free
Amazon Kendra	KendraDeveloperEdition KendraIntelligentRanking-BaseCapacity	Free Trial
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)	ReadRequestUnits TimedStorage-ByteHrs WriteRequestUnits	Free Trial
Amazon Lex	Speech-Requests Text-Requests botdesign	12 Months Free
Amazon Lightsail	BundleUsage:0.5GB BundleUsage:0.5GB_win BundleUsage:1GB BundleUsage:1GB_win BundleUsage:2GB BundleUsage:2GB_win ContainerSvcUsage:Micro-0.25CPU-1GB-Free DNS-Queries DatabaseUsage:1GB UnusedStaticIP	Free Trial
Amazon Location Service	DeviceDelete Geocode GeofenceCreateReadUpdateDelete GeofenceList MapTile PositionEvaluation PositionRead PositionWrite ResourceCreateReadUpdateDelete ReverseGeocode Route Suggest	Free Trial
Amazon Lookout for Equipment	Inference-Hours-L4E Ingestion-GB-L4E Training-Hours-L4E	Free Trial
Amazon Lookout for Metrics	ANOMALY_DETECTION	Free Trial
Amazon Lookout for Vision	EdgeInference Free-Inference Free-Training Inference Training	Free Trial
Amazon MQ	InstanceUsage:mq.t2.micro MQ:RabbitStorageUsage MQ:StorageUsage	12 Months Free
Amazon Macie	EventsProcessing S3ContentClassification SensitiveDataDiscovery	Free Trial
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus	AMP:MetricSampleCount AMP:MetricStorageByteHrs AMP:QuerySamplesProcessed	Always Free
Amazon MemoryDB	DataWritten NodeUsage:db.t4g.small	Free Trial
Amazon Mobile Analytics	EventsRecorded	12 Months Free
Amazon Neptune	BackupUsage DataTransfer-Out-Bytes InstanceUsage:db.t3.medium StorageIOUsage StorageUsage	Free Trial
AWS HealthOmics	AnalyticsType:Annotation-Bytes-hour AnalyticsType:Variant-Bytes-hour StorageClass:Active-Gigabase-hour StorageClass:Archive-Gigabase-hour WorkflowType:Private-RunStorage-GB-hour WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.12xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.16xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.24xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.2xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.4xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.8xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.large-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.c.xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.12xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.16xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.24xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.2xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.4xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.8xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.large-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.m.xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.12xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.16xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.24xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.2xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.4xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.8xlarge-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.large-hours WorkflowType:Private-omics.r.xlarge-hours	Free Trial
Amazon OpenSearch Service	ES:freetier-Storage ES:freetier-gp3-Storage ESInstance:freetier.micro ESInstance:t3.small	12 Months Free
Amazon Personalize	DataIngestion TPS-hours TrainingHour	Free Trial
Amazon Pinpoint	Domain-Inboxplacement EventsRecorded InAppMessageRequests MonthlyTargetedAudience Pinpoint_DeliveryAttempts Pinpoint_MonthlyTargetedAudience Predictive-Tests	12 Months Free
Amazon Polly	SynthesizeSpeech-Chars SynthesizeSpeechLongForm-Characters SynthesizeSpeechNeural-Characters	12 Months Free
Amazon QuickSight	QS-ENT-Alerts-FreeTrial	Free Trial
Amazon Redshift	Node:dc2.large Node:dw2.large	Free Trial
Amazon Rekognition	FaceVectorsStored Group1-ImagesProcessed Group2-ImagesProcessed ImagesProcessed MinsOfLiveVideoProcessed MinutesOfVideoProcessed UserVectorsStored inferenceminutes minutestrained	12 Months Free
Amazon Relational Database Service	InstanceUsage:db.t1.micro PI_API RDS:StorageIOUsage RDS:StorageUsage	12 Months Free
Amazon Route 53	Cidr-Blocks Health-Check-AWS	Always Free
Amazon SageMaker Runtime	A2ICustom-Objects A2IRek-Objects A2ITextract-Objects AsyncInf:ml.m.xlarge-AsyncInfParent Autopilot-RedshiftML:CreateModelRequest-Tier0-Parent Canvas:CreateModelRequest-Tier0-Parent Canvas:Session-Hrs-Parent DataWrangler:ml.m.xlarge-Parent FeatureStore:ReadRequestUnitsParent FeatureStore:TimedAndPITRStorageParent FeatureStore:WriteRequestUnitsParent FreeMonitorParent FreeServerlessParent Geospatial:NotebookCompute Geospatial:TimedStorage Host:ml.m.xlarge-HostingParent LabeledObject Notebk:ml.t.medium-NotebookParent RStudio:RSessionGateway-ml.t3.medium-RSessionGatewayParent Rstudio:Rsession-ml.t3.medium-RSessionParent Train:ml.m.xlarge-TrainingParent	Free Trial
Amazon Simple Email Service	Message MessageUnits Recipients-EC2 Recipients-MailboxSim-EC2 VirtDelivMgr	Always Free
Amazon Simple Notification Service	DeliveryAttempts-HTTP DeliveryAttempts-SMS DeliveryAttempts-SMTP Notifications-Mobile Requests-Tier1 SMS-Price-US	Always Free
Amazon Simple Queue Service	Requests	Always Free
Amazon Simple Storage Service	Requests-Tier1 Requests-Tier2 TimedStorage-ByteHrs	12 Months Free
Amazon Simple Workflow Service	AggregateInitiatedActions AggregateInitiatedWorkflows AggregateWorkflowDays	Always Free
Amazon SimpleDB	BoxUsage TimedStorage-ByteHrs	Always Free
Amazon Textract	PagesForLayout PagesForSignatures PagesforAnalyzeDocForms PagesforAnalyzeDocQueries PagesforAnalyzeDocTables PagesforAnalyzeExpense PagesforAnalyzeLending PagesforDocumentText SyncExpensePagesProcessed SyncIDPagesProcessed	Free Trial
Amazon Timestream	DataIngestion-Bytes DataScanned-Bytes MagneticStore-ByteHrs MemoryStore-ByteHrs	Free Trial
Amazon Transcribe	CallAnalyticsStreamingAudio CallAnalyticsTranscribeAudio HealthScribeBatch MedicalStreamingAudio MedicalTranscribeAudio StreamingAudio TranscribeAudio	12 Months Free
Amazon Translate	ActiveCustomTranslationJob TranslateText	12 Months Free
Amazon WorkSpaces	AW-HW-1-AutoStop-Usage AW-HW-1-AutoStop-User AW-HWU-3-AutoStop-Usage AW-HWU-3-AutoStop-User	Free Trial
Amazon CloudWatch	CW:AlarmMonitorUsage CW:Canary-runs CW:ContributorInsightEvents CW:ContributorInsightRules CW:InternetMonitor-CityNetwork CW:MetricMonitorUsage CW:Requests DashboardsUsageHour-Basic DataDelivery-Bytes DataProcessing-Bytes DataScanned-Bytes Logs-LiveTail TimedStorage-ByteHrs	Always Free
CloudWatch Events	Event-8K-Chunks ScheduledInvocation	Always Free
CodeBuild	Build-Min:Linux:g1.small Build-Sec:Lambda.1GB	Always Free
CodeCatalyst	Compute DevEnvironment-Compute DevEnvironment-Storage Package-Storage Repo-Storage	Always Free
CodeGuru	Profiler-Lambda-Sampling-Hour	Free Trial
Amazon Comprehend Medical	ComprehendMedical-Batching DetectEntities DetectPHI InferICD10CM InferRxNorm InferSNOMEDCT	Free Trial
Contact Center Telecommunications (service sold by AMCS, LLC)	did-inbound-mins did-numbers outbound-mins tollfree-inbound-mins tollfree-numbers tollfree-numbers-STD	12 Months Free
Contact Center Telecommunications Korea	did-inbound-mins did-numbers	12 Months Free
Contact Center Telecommunications South Africa	did-inbound-mins did-numbers	12 Months Free
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect	ChatAnalytics VoiceAnalytics	12 Months Free
Elastic Load Balancing	DataProcessing-Bytes LCUUsage LoadBalancerUsage	12 Months Free