Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Post by cameronbrown » Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

sciurus wrote: post #68

aortenzi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can, and if you want to use Lambdas, you can also route to them from ALBs, which has a bit confusing of a pricing model for comparison, but has no per-request cost.

Oh, ALBs. Now that's a mess. You'll either be charged per new connection, per concurrent connection, per byte, or per rule evaluation, depending on which is highest any given hour. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

> Load Balancer Capacity Units

I'm baffled at the complexity of just ELB pricing. Do AWS customers just not care?

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Post by brianmathews » Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 3:32 AM UTC

jmuhlich wrote: post #69

brianmathews wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The API charges per use, but not the cost explorer dashboard itself.

All those dashboards use the APIs underneath. The cost explorer dashboard certainly does incur API calls on my account.

no it doesn't

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Post by captkos » Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

I got a response back and my time was corrected (quick glance).. I will be more thorough from this point on. But for me the quick and dirty is comparing to the previous months bill.. Normally is enough, except for this month.

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Post by shadiakiki » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 4:10 AM UTC

"isitfit" (https://isitfit.autofitcloud.com) is a downloadable command-line tool that calculates billed usage of EC2 instances from the number of running hours over the last 90 days. You could reconcile it against the EC2 section in your AWS bill. To download it, use `pip3 install isitfit` and then just run the command `isitfit`. It's free and open-source at https://github.com/autofitcloud/isitfit

Edit: On a side-note, this week is the global climate strike week (https://globalclimatestrike.net/). Consider running `isitfit --optimize` to identify underused EC2 instances, downsize them, and use the saved money to save the planet.

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Post by iconara » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 6:14 AM UTC

Is anyone still seeing problems like this? I found duplicate entries in our Parquet CUR reports, but not in the CSV versions (we export both, for reasons). The duplicates were from 24 September beween 00:00 and 13:00 UTC and only for Usage and DiscountedUsage. Not limited to EC2, though, it was Redshift, CloudWatch, and a lot of other services too.