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Amazon Data Firehose

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

Billed on bytes ingested rather than bytes delivered, with no shards to provision.

What gets missed

Direct PUT rounds each record up to the next 5KB multiple, so a 12KB record bills as 15KB and a million 1KB records bill as 5GB. MSK and vended logs as sources skip the rounding entirely.

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.

  • BilledBytes
  • DPBytesDelivered
  • Firehose-VpcDelivery-Hours

Bills the same way

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