Security & identity
AWS Payment Cryptography
- Timebilled
- Bytesnot billed
- Unitsbilled
In one line
A monthly charge per active key, prorated hourly, plus a per-call charge on every API operation.
What gets missed
A key bills from the moment its state goes complete, whether or not a transaction ever touches it, and the per-call rate stays high until you clear twenty million calls in a month.
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.
USE1-ActiveKeysUSE1-Requests
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.