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AWS Lambda

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Every invocation bills twice: once as a request, once as GB-seconds of memory multiplied by run time.

What gets missed

Provisioned concurrency bills from the moment you enable it until you turn it off, with zero invocations. Since 1 August 2025 the INIT phase counts toward billed duration on on-demand invokes as well.

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.

  • Request
  • Lambda-GB-Second
  • Lambda-Provisioned-Concurrency
  • Lambda-Storage-GB-Second

Bills the same way

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