When does the AWS Free Tier ACTUALLY expire?

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When does the AWS Free Tier ACTUALLY expire?

kharjigli

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January 11, 2023 at 12:47 pm

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Hello. I keep reading that to check the expiration date for the AWS Free Tier, you need to check the first month that appears in your "Billing" section. Problem is, I signed up for AWS on the 28th of February of last year, which means I have a February 2022 bill. By that logic, January 2023 is my 12th month. But that seems to make no sense. Will my plan expire at the end of January or the end of February?
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398872 More actions · Answer 1

Honestly, no way to be certain. While I enjoy working with the AWS technology, AWS billing is insane. Despite deleting everything that I can find on one of my accounts, I'm still getting charged $0.85 a month. Less than a dollar, but they still charge me.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004289 More actions · Answer 2

Grant Fritchey wrote:

Honestly, no way to be certain. While I enjoy working with the AWS technology, AWS billing is insane. Despite deleting everything that I can find on one of my accounts, I'm still getting charged $0.85 a month. Less than a dollar, but they still charge me.

You still have an account, though, right?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398872 More actions · Answer 3

Jeff Moden wrote:

Grant Fritchey wrote:
Honestly, no way to be certain. While I enjoy working with the AWS technology, AWS billing is insane. Despite deleting everything that I can find on one of my accounts, I'm still getting charged $0.85 a month. Less than a dollar, but they still charge me.
You still have an account, though, right?

Honestly considering dropping it. I do most of my work through the Redgate account.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004289 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey wrote:

Jeff Moden wrote:
Grant Fritchey wrote:
Honestly, no way to be certain. While I enjoy working with the AWS technology, AWS billing is insane. Despite deleting everything that I can find on one of my accounts, I'm still getting charged $0.85 a month. Less than a dollar, but they still charge me.
You still have an account, though, right?
Honestly considering dropping it. I do most of my work through the Redgate account.

That would be a great test to see if it has anything to do with the apparent "residual" charges they're hitting you with.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004289 More actions · Answer 5

kharjigli wrote:

Hello. I keep reading that to check the expiration date for the AWS Free Tier, you need to check the first month that appears in your "Billing" section. Problem is, I signed up for AWS on the 28th of February of last year, which means I have a February 2022 bill. By that logic, January 2023 is my 12th month. But that seems to make no sense. Will my plan expire at the end of January or the end of February? {removed spam link)
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Nope... we've got you. 😉

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)