Management
Amazon Simple Workflow Service
- Timebilled
- Bytesbilled
- Callsbilled
In one line
Long-running and retained workflows keep accruing per-day charges after the work stops.
What gets missed
Retention is a meter. A completed execution keeps billing workflow-days for as long as you retain its history, so a long retention window on a high-volume workflow can cost more than running it did.
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.
InitiatedWorkflowsOpenWorkflowDaysClosedRetainedWorkflowDays
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.