Having definitely gotten out for $0 on the free tier, it sounds like you somehow ended up with other services or on an instance type that was not free tier eligible.
Re:A Peek Into Graviton2
by cookiecaper on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:59AM
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Which isn't an accident, to be fair. AWS pricing is deceptive on purpose, with many cross-dependencies that each have their own price points, exclusions, and caveats.
Only this many cents to use this thing, which, heh, I guess it requires this thing too, and this thing, and this thing ... man, some of these cents are adding up. Oh, a "NAT Gateway" is $30/mo? Well, OK. Keep going for a few weeks and you're staring down a bill for a rather scary number of cents while the CFO's angry rants can be heard half-way across the office.
There are entire consultancies that specialize in decoding AWS bills. Let's not pull leg here.
For 3 months, I was charged $11,$23, and finally $4 for 3 days of the 3rd months, where I QUICKLY cancelled the server...this is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive for a single processor, 1G RAM, 30GB SSD cloud server!
$37 for some 64 days is totally overpriced. You can get high quality low cost cloud servers for less then $5/month, and if you purchase a full year, half that.
Amazon really disappointed me with their FREE bait-n-switch bullshit marketing, and I will NEVER recommend their low end servers again.