Why Is My AWS Bill So High? The Line Items That Blow Up Small-Company Cloud Costs (NAT, Egress, Idle GPUs)

Most of a surprise AWS bill is not the servers you picked. It is the NAT gateway, the traffic, the logs and the forgotten disks around them. Every… Aliteq 0xLax · Founder · Cloud & Infrastructure

A high AWS bill is usually the lines around your servers, not the servers. In US East, a NAT gateway costs $32.85 a month idle plus $0.045 per GB, every public IPv4 address $3.65 a month, data out…

NAT gateway: $0.045 an hour ($32.85 a month idle) plus $0.045 per GB processed

Public IPv4: $0.005 an hour per address, $3.65 a month, in use or idle

Data out to the internet: 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB, so 1 TB is $83.16

Between zones: $0.01 per GB each direction, so 1 TB is $20.48

CloudWatch Logs: $0.50 per GB ingested, $0.03 per GB stored

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