AWS BillExplained
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AWS Transfer Family

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Every protocol you enable bills by the hour until you delete the server, plus a charge per GB moved.

What gets missed

StopServer pauses nothing. AWS bills from endpoint creation until deletion, once per protocol enabled, so a single server speaking SFTP, FTPS and FTP carries three hourly 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.

  • ProtocolHours
  • UPLOAD
  • DOWNLOAD
  • SFTPConnector-SendBytes

Bills the same way

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