Got email of 85% Amazon RDS used in Free Tier

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I am using an Amazon EC2 instance to host my site using the AWS Free Tier.

I received this email:

Dear AWS Customer,

Your AWS account has exceeded 85% of the usage limit for one or more AWS Free Tier-eligible services for the month of September.

AWS Free Tier Usage as of 09/29/2019:

  • AWS Free Tier: 17.1331 GB-Mo
  • Usage Limit: 20 GB of database storage, in any combination of RDS General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic storage

But I just have a 2.1 Mb of Database.

What to do?

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Could you update a better answer here now that you have been using it for long? I just received the same email. Could such email be just ignored as my DB size is in MBs only. – mittal

2 Answers

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From AWS Forums Posted by: BrianW@AWS

You should not be getting this message. The free tier is based on allocated storage, not consumed storage. If you allocate a 20 GB database, you will not exceed the free tier no matter how much you insert into the database. We will on making sure these e-mails are more helpful in the future.

So 20 GB is allocated storage for one year and you consume more for the month of September which is 2.1MB so based on 20GB for the year, you have to manager for each month accordingly.

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If you used the 20GB for a portion of the month, then it would be charged based on that portion.

So, you can allocate 20GB and use it for the whole month. This will consume 100% of the monthly allocation of the free tier, which is fine. It will continue each month like that.

Please note that the Free Tier for Amazon RDS is only available for the first 12 months of your AWS Account.