How-to check AWS current month costs

You're seeing the charges until yesterday. There is a delay of 24 hours between the usage of a resource and AWS showing its cost to you.

Current month costs

Go to the main page and check the Cost and Usage widget

Charges per day

Click the link Go to AWS Cost Management, and you will see your charges per day.

Click on View in Cost Explorer and then on Dimension select Service, and you will see the charges per day and per Service. Other useful options are usage type and API Operation.

Current month costs detailed per service and account

Go to AWS Billing > Bills and check the tabs Charges by service and Charges by account

NOT in the AWS free tier

It's very hard to understand what is and what is not in the AWS free tier. This is a list of the things I was charged using AWS free tier, and so after that I learned that are not part of it

VPC

• NAT gateway
• VPC Endpoint

EC2

•  Elastic IP

RDS

• Backup Storage

Data transfer

• EBS snapshot copy between AWS Regions

See also

Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt

How to try to avoid unexpected charges when using AWS

In AWS you see the charges until yesterday. There is a delay of 24 hours between the usage of a resource and AWS showing its cost to you.

Create a budget

Go to AWS Billing > Budgets and create a budget to receive notifications if your spending reaches it.

Change the Billing preferences

Go to AWS Billing > Billing preferences and active 

• PDF invoices delivery by email
• AWS Free Tier alerts
• CloudWatch billing alerts

Check the current month costs

On a constant basis go to the main page, and on the Cost and Usage widget check your current month costs and forecasted month-end costs. Also think about deleting all the widgets, but this one.

Usage and charge information is shown after 24 hours

"The Billing and Cost Management console takes about 24 hours to update usage and charge information for active resources." https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/resources-unexpected-charges

See also

NOT in the AWS free tier