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 using the Free Tier page in the Billing 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. For instructions on how 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'll see Free Tier usage for those usage types in the AWS Billing 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. Use the following procedure to change the email address for AWS Free Tier usage alerts.

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. Under Cost Management Preferences, under Receive AWS Free Tier Usage Alerts in the Email Address dialog box, enter the email address where you want to receive the usage alerts.

4. Scroll to the end of the page and choose Save preferences.

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. Under Cost Management Preferences, select Receive AWS Free Tier Usage Alerts to opt in to Free Tier usage alerts. To opt out, clear the Receive AWS Free Tier Usage Alerts check box.

Top AWS Free Tier services table

If you're eligible for the AWS Free Tier and you use an AWS Free Tier offering, you can track your usage with the Top AWS Free Tier Services by Usage table on the dashboard of the AWS Billing console. The dashboard shows your account's top five AWS Free Tier service measurements.

To see more details about your AWS Free Tier usage, including all of your active Free Tier services, choose View all in the Top AWS Free Tier Services by Usage table. The detailed table includes additional information about your forecasted usage for each Free Tier service measurement.

The Top AWS Free Tier Service by Usage table is grouped by service limit. A service might have multiple lines, enabling you to track each AWS Free Tier limit closely. For example, each month you get 2,000 Amazon S3 Put operations and 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage. The AWS Free Tier usage table has two lines, one for S3 - Puts and one for S3 - Storage.

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

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

• Your AWS 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.

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 Global-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
Alexa Web Information Service	AlexaWebInfoService::request AlexaWebInfoService::Requests
Amazon API Gateway	Global-ApiGatewayRequest
Amazon AppStream	Global-stream-hrs:720p:g2 Global-stream.standard.large-ib
Amazon Cloud Directory	Global-Requests-Tier1 Global-Requests-Tier2 Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
Amazon CloudFront	Global-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes Global-Requests-Tier1 Invalidations Execution:Executions-CloudFrontFunctions
Amazon CloudWatch	Global-CW:Requests Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs PutLogEvents:Global-DataProcessing-Bytes
Amazon Cognito	Global-CognitoUserPoolMAU
Amazon Cognito Sync	Global-CognitoSyncOperation Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
Amazon Connect	USE1-end-customer-mins
AWS CodeBuild	Global-Build-Min:Linux:g1.small
Amazon GameLift	Global-BoxUsage:c5.large
AWS Storage Gateway	Global-Uploaded-Bytes
Amazon DynamoDB	TimedStorage-ByteHrs GetRecords:AFS1-Streams-Requests
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)	Global-BoxUsage:freetier.micro Global-BoxUsage:freetier.micro Global-DataProcessing-Bytes Global-EBS:SnapshotUsage Global-EBS:VolumeIOUsage Global-EBS:VolumeUsage Global-LCUUsage Global-LoadBalancerUsage
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)	Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
Amazon Elastic File System	Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Global-ES:freetier-Storage Global-ESInstance:freetier.micro
Amazon Elastic Transcoder	global-ets-audio-success Global-ets-hd-success Global-ets-sd-success
Amazon Forecast	Global-DataInjection Global-TrainingHours
Amazon Fraud Detector	Global-BoxUsage:c3.large Global-FlexMatchMatchmakingHrs Global-FlexMatchPlayerPackages Global-DailyActiveUser
Amazon GameLift	Global-CW:Requests Global-DataProcessing-Bytes Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
Amazon GameOn	API-Score-Free-Tier
Amazon GameSparks	Global-ExecutionTime-Code Global-APIRequest-Blocks Global-APIRequest-Code Global-APIRequest-CodeRead Global-APIRequest-CodeWrite Global-APIRequest-Tune Global-Storage-Code Global-Storage-Content
Amazon IVS	SUM-Global-Input-Basic-Hours SUM-Global-Output-SD-Hours
Amazon Lex	Lex-Global-Speech-Requests Lex-Global-Text-Requests
Amazon LookoutVision	Free-Inference Free-Training
Amazon Macie	SensitiveDataDiscovery
Amazon MCS	Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs Global-ReadRequestUnits Global-WriteRequestUnits
Amazon Neptune	DataTransfer-Out-Bytes
Amazon Pinpoint	Domain-Inboxplacement MonthlyTargetedAudience Predictive-Tests
Amazon Personalize	Global-DataIngestion Global-TPS-hours Global-TrainingHour Predictive-Tests EventsRecorded
Amazon Polly	Global-SynthesizeSpeech-Chars
Amazon Relational Database Service	Global-InstanceUsage:db.t1.micro Global-RDS:StorageIOUsage
Amazon Rekognition	Global-FaceVectorsStored Global-ImagesProcessed Global-inferenceminutes Global-MinutesOfVideoProcessed Global-minutestrained
Amazon Route 53	Health-Check-AWS
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)	Global-Requests-Tier1 Global-Requests-Tier2 Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
Amazon Simple Email Service	Global-Message Global-Recipients-MailboxSim-EC2
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)	DeliveryAttempts-HTTP DeliveryAttempts-SMTP Requests-Tier1 Notifications-Mobile
Amazon States	Global-StateTransition
Amazon Simple Workflow Service	Global-AggregateInitiatedActions Global-AggregateInitiatedWorkflows Global-AggregateWorkflowDays
Amazon Textract	Global-PagesforAnalyzeDocTables Global-PagesforDocumentText
Amazon WorkLink	WorkLink-MAU
Amazon TTS	Global-SynthesizeSpeech-Chars
Amazon WorkSpaces	AutoStop-Usage AutoStop-User
AWS Amplify	Global-BuildDuration Global-DataStorage ' Global-DataTransferOut
AWS Budgets	ActionEnabledBudgetsUsage
AWS CodeArtifact	Global-Requests Global-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
AWS CodeCommit	User-Month
	Global-activePipeline
AWS Database Migration Service	Global-InstanceUsg:dms.t2.micro Global-SynthesizeSpeechNeural-Characters
AWS DataTransfer	Global-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes
AWS DeepRacer	TimedStorage-GigabyteHrs
AWS Glue	Global-Catalog-Request Global-Catalog-Storage
AWS IoT	AWSIoT-messages
AWS KMS	Global-KMS-Requests
AWS Lambda	Global-Lambda-GB-Second Global-Request
Amazon SQS	Global-Requests
AWS X-Ray	Global-XRay-TracesAccessed Global-XRay-TracesStored
AWS Storage Gateway	Global-Uploaded-Bytes
AWS CodeBuild	Global-Build-Min:Linux:g1.small
Amazon Comprehend	Global-Comprehend-DC-Custom Global-Comprehend Global-Comprehend-Syntax Global-DetectEvents Global-DetectPiiEntities Global-DetectTopics
Amazon Comprehend Medical	Global-CompMed-DetectEntities Global-CompMed-DetectPHI
ContactCenterTelecomm	USE1-US-did-inbound-mins USE1-US-outbound-mins USE1-US-tollfree-inbound-mins
ContactLensAmazonConnect	ChatAnalytics:Global-ChatAnalytics VoiceAnalytics:Global-VoiceAnalytics
AWS IoT Device Defender	global-Detect
AWS IoT Device Management	global-JobExecutions
Amazon Mobile Analytics	EventsRecorded
AWS OpsWorks	OpsWorks-Chef-Automate