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AWS Elemental MediaLive

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

Every input and output bills by the hour.

What gets missed

Stopping a channel does not take it to zero. MediaLive has an explicit idle-channel charge for stopped channels and an idle charge for push inputs; only pull inputs are free while idle. Delete to stop paying.

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.

  • OUT-AVC-HD-30-E
  • OUT-IDLE
  • IN-IDLE

Bills the same way

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