On: Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets ...

[WrtCdEvrydy]

Yeah, that's an elastic IP, check under EC2.

People forget to clean them up after shutting down the instance (probably kept in case you want to keep your IP)

[therockspush → WrtCdEvrydy]

It's crazy that it's so common, but that they wouldn't make that obvious.

Considering the whole IPv4 extinction that's coming down and all.

[WrtCdEvrydy → therockspush]

So an elastic IP is just an AWS provided IP that they hand over to you... it's free while your instance is running but if you stop your instance, you get a small bill (it's like $0.84 a month)

[TheFlyingFish → therockspush]

I will gladly welcome the eventual IPv4 extinction, but unfortunately I'm pretty confident it won't happen for another 30 years.

[farnsworth → WrtCdEvrydy]

I don't have any elastic IPs. The only thing under EC2 is a security group that it won't let me delete, but seems like no resources. My bill this month is $2.88 /shrug

[WrtCdEvrydy → farnsworth]

Check volumes, non-root volumes are kept on deletion but should be EBS charged instead.