AWS BillExplained
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Amazon Lightsail

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

One flat bundle price per instance, with a monthly data-transfer allowance folded into it.

What gets missed

A stopped instance keeps accruing the bundle rate until you delete it. Traffic in both directions eats the allowance, but only outbound past it is billed. A static IP left unattached bills by the hour.

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.

  • BundleUsage:1GB
  • DataXfer-Out-Overage-Bytes
  • UnusedStaticIP

Bills the same way

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