Tracking your AWS Free Tier usage
You can track your AWS Free Tier usage in the following ways:
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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.
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Review your AWS Free Tier usage by using the Free Tier page in the Billing and Cost Management console.
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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
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Billing console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/
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Under Preferences in the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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For Alert preferences, choose Edit.
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Enter the email address to receive the usage alerts.
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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
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Billing console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/
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Under Preferences in the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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For Alert preferences, choose Edit.
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Select Receive AWS Free Tier alerts to opt in to Free Tier usage alerts. To opt out, clear Receive AWS Free Tier alerts.
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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:
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You use an AWS service that doesn't offer Free Tier
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Your Free Tier has expired
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You access AWS through an AWS Organizations member account
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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 |
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AWS Amplify |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS AppSync |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS Audit Manager |
|
Free Trial |
AWS Budgets |
|
Always Free |
AWS CloudFormation |
|
Always Free |
AWS CodeArtifact |
|
Always Free |
AWS CodeCommit |
|
Always Free |
AWS CodePipeline |
|
Always Free |
AWS Data Pipeline |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS Data Transfer |
|
Always Free |
AWS Database Migration Service |
|
Always Free |
AWS DeepRacer |
|
Free Trial |
AWS Directory Service |
|
Free Trial |
AWS Elemental MediaConnect |
|
Always Free |
AWS Glue |
|
Always Free |
AWS IoT Greengrass |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS HealthImaging |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS IoT |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS IoT Analytics |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS IoT Device Defender |
|
Free Trial |
AWS IoT Device Management |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS IoT Events |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS IoT TwinMaker |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS Key Management Service |
|
Always Free |
AWS Lambda |
|
Always Free |
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces |
|
Always Free |
AWS OpsWorks |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS RoboMaker |
|
Free Trial |
AWS Security Hub |
|
Always Free |
AWS Service Catalog |
|
Always Free |
AWS Step Functions |
|
Always Free |
AWS Storage Gateway |
|
Always Free |
AWS Supply Chain |
|
Free Trial |
AWS Systems Manager |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS WAF |
|
Always Free |
AWS X-Ray |
|
Always Free |
Amazon API Gateway |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon AppStream |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Augmented AI |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Braket |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Cloud Directory |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon CloudFront |
|
Always Free |
Amazon CloudSearch |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Cognito |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Cognito Sync |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Comprehend |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Connect |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Connect Voice ID |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon DataZone |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon DevOps Guru |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon DynamoDB |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Elastic Container Registry |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon ElastiCache |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Elastic Container Service |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Elastic File System |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Elastic Transcoder |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Forecast |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Fraud Detector |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon GameLift |
|
12 Months Free |
AWS HealthLake |
|
Always Free |
Amazon IVS Chat |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Interactive Video Service |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Kendra |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Lex |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Lightsail |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Location Service |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Lookout for Equipment |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Lookout for Metrics |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Lookout for Vision |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon MQ |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Macie |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus |
|
Always Free |
Amazon MemoryDB |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Mobile Analytics |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Neptune |
|
Free Trial |
AWS HealthOmics |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon OpenSearch Service |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Personalize |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Pinpoint |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Polly |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon QuickSight |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Redshift |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Rekognition |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Relational Database Service |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Route 53 |
|
Always Free |
Amazon SageMaker Runtime |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Simple Email Service |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Simple Notification Service |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Simple Queue Service |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Simple Storage Service |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Simple Workflow Service |
|
Always Free |
Amazon SimpleDB |
|
Always Free |
Amazon Textract |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Timestream |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Transcribe |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon Translate |
|
12 Months Free |
Amazon WorkSpaces |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon CloudWatch |
|
Always Free |
CloudWatch Events |
|
Always Free |
CodeBuild |
|
Always Free |
CodeCatalyst |
|
Always Free |
CodeGuru |
|
Free Trial |
Amazon Comprehend Medical |
|
Free Trial |
Contact Center Telecommunications (service sold by AMCS, LLC) |
|
12 Months Free |
Contact Center Telecommunications Korea |
|
12 Months Free |
Contact Center Telecommunications South Africa |
|
12 Months Free |
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect |
|
12 Months Free |
Elastic Load Balancing |
|
12 Months Free |