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Amazon ElastiCache

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Node-hours if you size the cluster yourself. Serverless swaps that for GB-hours of stored data plus ECPUs.

What gets missed

Serverless meters a storage floor on every cache even when it holds almost nothing: 1 GB for Redis OSS and Memcached, 100 MB for Valkey. On node clusters, cross-AZ traffic to the cache bills at EC2 rates.

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.

  • NodeUsage
  • ElastiCacheProcessingUnits
  • CachedData

Bills the same way

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