Database
Amazon SimpleDB
- Timebilled
- Bytesbilled
- Unitsnot billed
In one line
Compute-hours that queries actually consume, plus GB-month of stored data. Both have a free allowance.
What gets missed
Legacy (no console, and DynamoDB superseded it) but an existing domain keeps billing. Compute meters the time a query consumes, not the request count, so one unindexed scan costs more than thousands of key reads.
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.
BoxUsageTimedStorage-ByteHrs
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.