How to stop Amazon EC2 billing?

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Every month I am being billed $0.80 + VAT for the following:

Elastic Compute Cloud $0.80 US West (Oregon) Region Usage

EBS

$0.10 per GB-month of General Purpose (SSD) provisioned storage - US West (Oregon) 8.000 GB-Mo $0.80

Total: $0.80

Region Total: $0.80

I asked them to stop doing this and got the following response:

I'm sorry that you have concerns relating to your recent billing. Here is the reason that you are being charged: $0.10 per GB-month of General Purpose (SSD) provisioned storage - US West (Oregon) Usage 8.00000136 0.8 USD

It appears that you stopped your instance but did not delete the storage that was attached. I have as a one time courtesy refunded the charges to you from March as well as added a credit to your account to offset the current charges but would recommend deleting the storage to avoid accruing any further charges. It is located in the US West (Oregon) region.

This is nice but I literally cannot find this attached storage anywhere. It does not appear in EC2.

Any ideas how I can stop getting billed a dollar a month?

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2 Answers

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  1. Log in to your AWS console
  2. Make sure that in the upper right corner you pick the 'US West (Oregon)' region:

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  1. From the 'Services' menu in upper left corner, pick 'EC2'
  2. On the left side menu, make sure that 'Instances', 'AMIs', 'Volumes' and 'Snapshots' are all empty
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If you create EC2 t2 instances , it will use EBS as your instance root storage.

You may check this out under AWS console - EC2 - Volumes

Or under AWS Console - AMI . check your instance AMI Root Device Type.