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Enforce tags for S3-bucket creation
I have been trying to create an IAM policy to enforce tagging for S3 resources.
The policy:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "VisualEditor0",
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": [
"s3:CreateBucket"
…

gromyk
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AWS billing overview
I am hosting two different solutions for two different clients on AWS - everything is hosted out from a single AWS account. Each solution consists of a RDS database and a couple of EC2 instances. I now need to split the bill between the two clients,…

user422005
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Does manually terminating a spot instance following an interruption notice and within the first hour incur charges?
I am using EC2 Spot Instance interruption notices to architect a fault tolerant application running on Amazon Linux. On receiving the warning, some logs are stored and I no longer need the instance for the upcoming 2 minutes.
If Amazon EC2…

Ahmed Sheashaa
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AWS Backup DynamoDB billing
I'd like to understand better the billing composition regardless of AWS Backup on DynamoDB resources since I got an unexpected increase in my billing.
I'm aware of AWS Backup billing itself thanks to the documentation, anyway, when I access the…

Osain
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AWS Cost Explorer discrepancy for Root and linked account
I'm pretty new to the cost explorer and looking at this scenario:
There's a root(organization) account which has multiple linked accounts like this:
Root Account
- Account B
- Account C
- ...
When I filter a specific Account (AccountB) from the…

Mahyar
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AWS monthly billing service charges nodejs
I am trying to get the monthly billing data for an AWS production account through a nodejs script.
const getbillingReport = () => {
getcreds({ accountId: '1234554321', region:'us-east-1'})
.then(accCreds => {
costexplorer =…

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AWS Billing CUR - Surchage Value in lineItem/Operation
In the CUR Report , what does the value "Surcharge" means in the column LineItem/Operation ?
Have you ever seen this valie ?
Thanks for your help

Fabien eCosinus
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AWS S3 + CloudFront Cost Problems
I need help to understand is it possible to somehow reduce the AWS billing for these.
I'm using S3 only to store audio and video files and then provide them to my users.
To reduce the cost I started to use CloudFront it reduced the cost a little…

Art Samvelyan
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Price of Enabling Billing Alert
I cannot find on the AWS docs the price of Enabling the Billing Alert.
Is it just free? If not, can someone point me to the relevant AWS documentation?
Sorry for this non-technical question. Let me know if I should ask this on another SO page.

Mornor
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AWS account is suspended due non-payment of outstanding balance. Can I pass AWS certificatio
Back in 2012 my AWS account credentials ware hacked resulting in a payments I couldn't afford to pay (I was 18 years old that time) and still can't afford. Now I want to take AWS certification. When I login with my email address I can see that I…

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DynamoDB - Single item vs Multiple item, what is more cost-effective
Approach #1: (Single item)
Single partition key, with all data included in the item, example:
PK: Item#1
object_attribute_1: full json item
object_attribute_2: full json item
object_attribute_3: full json item
object_attribute_4: full json…

Tiago Santos
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How to get Contact Information and Alternate Contact in AWS/Billing using boto3?
I am working on a project in which through the boto3 SDK I need to obtain the information from Alternate Contacts and Contact Information.
Is there a method that do this with boto3? Thanks!
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Unexpected billing on AWS EC2
I am doing some checkings in billing console and there I found a c5.xlarge instance that I can't find on EC2 console. I am searching for these instances on the correct Region that is sa-east-1 in my case and the heading of the bill is Amazon Elastic…

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Elastic IP is still billing after deleting associated instance and discosiating IP-es
I have reviewed many similar topics and tried the following methods:
deleted active ec2 instance
disassociated and remove elastic IP
even deleted snapshat and ami
however billing is still increasing every day, what else should i do to stop this…

Sagitarius
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AWS Boto3 fetch region wise cost and billing data
I am preparing a script that can fetch me the cost of my AWS account. Here I have used Python3 and boto3 SDK by AWS. But for further granularity, I also want to fetch region-wise cost for each service. I am unable to get a good doc for this.…

Atharva Kale
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