I am a beginner in using AWS. I was able to make use of the AWS documentation for setting up EC2 and RDS for deploying my personal website using the Free Tier quota. After I was done using the service I stopped both the instances. Towards the end of the month, even after I stopped both the instances, I was sent an alert regarding the 85% usage of my Free Tier quota. So I checked the AWS Billing (screenshot added below) and tried finding where the RDS was taking up over 17GB of data out of max limit of 20GB. To me this is not making sense as I had already terminated the RDS instance. If you can spot what I'm doing wrong here— thank you!
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Post Update:
My issue has been resolved!
Here's what had happened:- I was sent an email regarding 85% usage of my AWS resource for Free Tier. This was a day during the month of June. Right after, I immediately headed to stop all my instances. After that it still didn't seem to have stopped because the dashboard kept showing the updated usage limit which happened to keep increasing day after day. After the month got over, the very next day, on the 1st of July the dashboard cleared out with all instances gone! Wiped away. Cleared. Relief. Finally. Phew!! End of story.
