AWS BillExplained
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Integration

Amazon SQS

  • Timenot billed
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Every API action counts as a request. Sends, receives, deletes and empty polls all bill the same.

What gets missed

A ReceiveMessage that returns nothing still bills, and payload chunks: a 1 MiB call bills as sixteen requests. Standard queue calls carrying a message group ID are charged fair-queue rates on top.

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.

  • Requests-RBP
  • Requests-FIFO-RBP
  • Requests-Fair-RBP

Bills the same way

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