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Networking

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

Billed per connection-hour while the tunnel is provisioned and available.

What gets missed

An idle tunnel bills the same as a busy one because the meter tracks state, not packets. No VPN-specific per-GB fee exists; bytes land on standard data transfer, and the tunnel IPs draw public IPv4 charges.

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.

  • VPN-Usage-Hours:ipsec.1
  • DataTransfer-Out-Bytes

Bills the same way

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