Billing and account management

What do Lightsail plans cost?

Lightsail plans are billed on an on-demand hourly rate, so you pay only for what you use. For every Lightsail plan you use, we charge you the fixed hourly price, up to the maximum monthly plan cost. The least expensive Lightsail plan starts at $0.0067 USD/hour ($5 USD/month). Lightsail plans that include a Windows Server license start at $0.0127 USD/hour ($9.50 USD/month).

When am I getting charged for a plan?

Lightsail instances and managed databases incur charges until they are deleted. These resources accrue charges even when they are in the stopped state. If you delete your Lightsail instance or managed database before the end of the month, we only charge you a prorated cost, based on the total number of hours that you used your Lightsail instance or managed database for that month. For example, if you use the least expensive Lightsail instance plan for 100 hours in a month, you will be charged 46 cents (100*0.0046).

Can I try Lightsail instances for free?

Yes. Whether you're an existing or new AWS customer, you get 750 hours of free usage of the $5 USD Lightsail plan for free. You also can try Lightsail plans that include a Windows Server license for free using the $9.50 USD Windows plan.

You can use your 750 hours of usage across as many instances as you like. For example, you can run a single Lightsail instance for a whole month, or 10 Lightsail instances for 75 hours. The free trial offer is only applicable to usage within the first calendar month from when you sign up to use Lightsail. If your account is linked to an organization (under AWS Organizations), only one account within the organization can benefit from the AWS Free Tier offers.

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As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Lightsail for free on select instance bundles. For more information, see AWS Free Tier on the Amazon Lightsail Pricing page.

When does the Lightsail free trial start?

The Lightsail free trial benefits start when the first free trial eligible resource is launched.

The extended 90 day free trial for instances and databases is applicable only on select plans (bundles). The offer applies to new or existing AWS accounts that started using Lightsail on or after July 8, 2021. For more information, see the Lightsail pricing page.

What do Lightsail managed databases cost?

Lightsail managed databases come in 4 plan sizes and start at $15 USD per month for a 1GB RAM database instance with 40 GB of SSD storage and 100 GB data transfer allowance. High Availability plans costs two times the Standard plan prices, because they run an additional database instance and storage disk in another Availability zone for redundancy.

Can I try Lightsail managed databases for free?

Yes! New Lightsail customers get 1 month of the $15 USD Lightsail plan free.

What does Lightsail block storage cost?

Lightsail block storage costs $0.10 USD per GB per month.

What do Lightsail load balancers cost?

Lightsail load balancers cost $18 USD per month.

What does certificate management cost?

Lightsail certificates and certificate management are free with use of a Lightsail load balancer.

What do Lightsail static IPv4 addresses cost?

There are no costs associated with Static IP addresses when they are attached to a Lightsail instance. Static IPs cannot be attached to IPv6-only instances. IPv4 addresses are a scarce resource and Lightsail is committed to helping to use them efficiently, so we charge a small $0.005 USD/hour fee for static IPs not attached to an instance for more than 1 hour.

What does data transfer cost?

Your instance, database, and content delivery network (CDN) distribution plans include a data transfer allowance.

For Lightsail instances, both data transfer in and data transfer out of your instance count toward your data transfer allowance. If you exceed your data transfer allowance, you will only be charged for the excess data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance to the internet or to AWS resources using the public IP address of the instance. You will not be charged for the excess data transfer IN to your Lightsail instance. Both data transfer IN to Lightsail instances and data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance when using the instance's private IP address are free beyond your data transfer allowance.

For Lightsail managed databases, only data transfer OUT is counted against your allowance. If you exceed your data transfer allowance, you will only get charged for data transfer OUT from a Lightsail managed database to the internet.

For Lightsail CDN distributions, all data transfer out of your distribution counts toward your allowance. All data transfer out of your distribution will incur a charge after you exceed your distribution data transfer allowance.

How does my data transfer allowance work for instances?

Every Lightsail instance plan includes a data transfer allowance. Both data transfer IN and data transfer OUT of your instance count toward your data transfer allowance. If you exceed your data transfer allowance, you will only be charged for the excess data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance to the Internet or to AWS resources using the public IP address of the instance. You will not be charged for the excess data transfer IN to your Lightsail instance (see Example 1). Your data transfer allowance resets every month, and your instance can consume it whenever it needs to within the month. Data transfer allowance is aggregated for instances of the same bundle (bundleId) in a Region (see Example 2 and Example 3). Data transfer allowance is also aggregated for IPv4 and IPv6 instances of the same size (see Example 4). Deleting an instance and creating a new instance does not reset the data transfer allowance (see Example 5).

For more information about Lightsail bundles, see Bundle in the Amazon Lightsail API Reference.

• Example 1 – You have one $5 USD per month instance bundle (bundleId nano_3_0) with 1 TB per month data transfer allowance. If you send 500 GB of data to the Internet (data transfer OUT) and 400 GB of data to the instance (data transfer IN), you will have consumed 900 GB of your 1 TB allowance. If you send another 200 GB of data to the Internet, you will exceed your allowance by 100 GB, and will be charged a data transfer OUT overage fee for 100 GB. If you next send 200 GB of data to the instance, you will not be charged for overage.

• Example 2 – If you have two $5 USD per month instance bundles (bundleId nano_3_0) for a full month in a region, each with 1 TB per month data transfer allowance, you get 2 TB data transfer allowance in aggregate. If you send 1.5 TB of data to the Internet with the first instance and 100 GB of data to the Internet with the second instance, you will still be 400 GB under your total allowance of 2 TB, and you will not be charged any data transfer OUT overage fees.

• Example 3 – You create two sets of instance bundles: set A with two $5 USD per month instance bundles (bundleId nano_3_0) and set B with three $7 USD per month instance bundles (bundleId micro_3_0), both in the US West (Oregon) Region. In aggregate, this gives you 2 TB of data transfer allowance for set A, and 6 TB of data transfer allowance for set B. If you transfer 3 TB of data to the Internet through set A instances and 4 TB of data to the Internet through Set B instances, you will exceed your data transfer allowance for Set A instances and will be charged a data transfer OUT overage fee for 1 TB. You will still be within your allowance for Set B instances by 2 TB.

• Example 4 – You have consumed 600 GB of the total 1 TB data transfer allowance for your $3.50 USD per month IPv6 instance bundle (bundleId nano_ipv6_3_0) within the first 20 days of the billing month. You decide to switch the networking type of your instance to dual-stack (bundleId nano_3_0 charged at $5 USD per month price) on the 21st day. Your data transfer utilization for the month will not reset, and will remain at 600 GB, with 400 GB allowance left. During the remainder of the billing month, if you send 500 GB of data to the Internet, you will accrue data transfer OUT overage charges for 100 GB.

• Example 5 – You have three $5 USD per month instance bundles (bundleId nano_3_0), each with 1 TB per month data transfer allowance. Assume you have consumed 1 TB of the total 3 TB data transfer allowance within the billing month, which leaves you with 2 TB of remaining data transfer allowance. If you delete all your instances, and create three new instances of the same bundle (bundleId nano_3_0) in the same Region within the same billing month, your data transfer utilization will still be 1 TB and remaining data transfer allowance will still be 2 TB. You can transfer 2 TB more data through your instances within the same month before you start accruing any data transfer OUT overage charges.

How does my data transfer allowance work with my load balancers?

Your load balancer does not consume your data transfer allowance. Traffic between the load balancer and the target instances or distributions is metered and counts toward your data transfer allowance for your instances or distributions, in the same way that traffic in from and out to the internet is counted toward your data transfer allowance for Lightsail instances that are not behind a load balancer. Traffic into and out of your load balancer to the internet is not calculated toward the data transfer allowance for your instances.

What if I exceed my data transfer plan allowance?

We have designed our data transfer plans so that the vast majority of our customers will be fully covered by their allowance and not incur any additional charges. If your instance exceeds its plan data transfer allowance, you will be charged an overage fee per GB of data transfer used (data transfer OUT to the internet only).

Even if your instance exceeds its plan data transfer allowance, many types of data transfer are free. Data transfer IN to Lightsail instances and databases is always free. Data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance to another Lightsail instance, in between Lightsail instances and Lightsail managed databases, or to AWS resources in the same Region is also free if private IP addresses are used.

What types of data transfer do I get charged for?

When you exceed the monthly free data transfer allowance of your instance plan, you will get charged for data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance to the internet or to another AWS Region or to AWS resources in the same Region when using public IP addresses. The charge for these types of data transfer above the free allowance is as follows.

• US East (Ohio) (us-east-2): $0.09 USD/GB

• US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1): $0.09 USD/GB

• US West (Oregon) (us-west-2): $0.09 USD/GB

• Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1): $0.13 USD/GB

• Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2): $0.13 USD/GB

• Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1): $0.12 USD/GB

• Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2): $0.17 USD/GB

• Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1): $0.14 USD/GB

• Canada (Central) (ca-central-1): $0.09 USD/GB

• EU (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1): $0.09 USD/GB

• EU (Ireland) (eu-west-1): $0.09 USD/GB

• EU (London) (eu-west-2): $0.09 USD/GB

• EU (Paris) (eu-west-3): $0.09 USD/GB

• EU (Stockholm) (eu-north-1): $0.09 USD/GB

Instances created in different Availability Zones can communicate between zones privately and for free, and are much less likely to be impaired concurrently. Availability Zones enable you to build highly available applications and websites without increasing the cost of data transfer or compromising your application's security.

When you exceed the data transfer allowance of your Lightsail CDN distribution plan, you are charged for all data transfer OUT. The charge for data transfer above your distribution’s allowance is different from Lightsail instances and is as follows.

• Asia Pacific: $0.13 USD/GB

• Canada: $0.09 USD/GB

• Europe: $0.09 USD/GB

• India: $0.13 USD/GB

• Japan: $0.14 USD/GB

• Middle East: $0.11 USD/GB

• South Africa: $0.11 USD/GB

• South America: $0.11 USD/GB

• United States: $0.09 USD/GB

How does my instance data transfer allowance vary by AWS Region?

The regional data transfer allowance for Lightsail instances is found on Amazon Lightsail pricing. The allowance is the same for all AWS Regions, with the exception of the Asia Pacific (Mumbai & Sydney) Regions. Plans in the Mumbai and Sydney Regions include half the data transfer allowances of other Regions.

The data transfer allowance for Lightsail managed databases are the same in all AWS Regions.

What do Lightsail domains cost?

The prices listed in the linked .pdf file apply for new domain name registrations, renewals of existing domain name registrations as of December 22 2021. All prices include a DNS zone and privacy protection. For information about the cost of registering domains, see Amazon Route 53 Pricing for Domain Registration, and Domain registration.

What does Lightsail DNS management cost?

DNS management is free within Lightsail. You can create up to 6 DNS zones and as many records as you want for each DNS zone. You also get a monthly allowance of 3 million DNS queries per month to your zones. Beyond your first 3 million queries in a month, you are charged $0.40 USD per 1 million DNS queries.

What do Lightsail snapshots cost?

Lightsail snapshots (manual and automatic) cost $0.05 USD/GB-month to store. This means that if you create a snapshot of an instance that is using 28 GB of space, and keep it for a month, you pay $1.40 USD for the month.

When you take multiple, successive snapshots of the same instance, Lightsail automatically cost-optimizes your snapshots. For each new snapshot you take, you're charged only for the part of the data that changed. In the example above, if your instance data only changes by 2 GB, your second instance snapshot costs only $0.10 USD per month.

How can I manage my AWS account?

Lightsail is an AWS service and runs on the AWS trusted and proven cloud infrastructure. You use the same AWS account and credentials to log in to Lightsail and the AWS Management Console.

You can manage your AWS account, including changing your AWS account password, user name, contact information, or billing information from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.

What are the Lightsail legal terms of use?

Lightsail is an Amazon web service, so to use Lightsail, you first agree to the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms. When creating Lightsail instances, you also agree that your use of software is also subject to the end user license agreement of the seller, available for your review on the create instance page.

How can I pay my Lightsail bill?

You can pay and manage your bill through the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. AWS accepts most major credit cards. Learn more about managing your payment methods here.