AWS EC2 shutdown and still getting charged? Create a budget alert.
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4 min readFeb 5, 2022
Last month I was surprised that my bill was so high when my EC2 was shut down so I did some investigating. Turns out AWS charges for Elastic IPs even when your EC2 is off! I must have missed the small print 😬. Below I will go through my steps on how I found out what I was getting charged and how I set up a budget alert
