AWS keep costs low - RobertCzaja/it-offers-api GitHub Wiki

• You can do a lot on AWS with $20/mo.
• add budget alarms - set alarm threshold > 12$ (check link How to Monitor Your AWS Billing and Get Alerts Using CloudWatch and SNS 🚨)
• The reality is that you can do a lot with free tier and/or very cheap services.
• AWS Free Tier
  • limits per month (you will not be billed unless your usage exceeds those credits)
  • 3 prices model: 12-month Free Tier, Always Free, short term trials
  • Services available on Free Tier: ec2, rds (postgres), cloud watch
  • AWS Free Usage Tier are enough to host and run a website for a year, with enough left over for additional experimentation
  • The AWS free usage tier expires 12 months from the date you sign up
  • The AWS free usage tier is available to new AWS accounts created on or after October 21, 2010.
  • When free time is over: Use AWS Budgets to create custom cost and usage budgets that notify you when you exceed (or are about to exceed) your budgeted amount
  • Billing and Cost Management -> Bills

How to reduce that:

Links:

• Reddit
• How to Monitor Your AWS Billing and Get Alerts Using CloudWatch and SNS 🚨
• AWS Free Tier Limits
• Tracking AWS Free Tier costs