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AWS CloudHSM

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

Rent an HSM by the hour. Whatever crypto you run on it is unmetered.

What gets missed

No per-operation charge exists, so the only lever is HSM count and uptime. A production HA cluster needs at least two, and the clock keeps running on an idle HSM until you delete it.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • CloudHSMv2Usage
  • CloudHSMv2Usage-hsm2m.m

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.