Just in case it’s not clear - if you use an elastic IP, and leave it associated with your instance, you don’t have to pay for it. It makes life easier since you don’t have to worry about your IP changing every time you start your instance.
EDIT: this isn’t correct. If you stop the instance, you pay for the IP. It’s about $3.60 per month
Thanks for your reply Jeremy. However, my bill tells me that when my instances were in stopped status, ( I assume the only two Elastic IP were associated with my only Instances, as I only got two IPs) $0.005 per Elastic IP address not attached to a running instance per hour (prorated) kept counting hours and charged by hour.
So, as Alex suggested I have released all my Elastic IPs and use Public IPs at the moment. I will see whether this stops this type of charge in the next few days.
Daniel, you can go with basic support plan which is free. It allows you to submit requests on general guidance, particularly the limit increase which is one you probably need to issue at the start of the course. It does not include technical support, though.
Charging for technical support and AWS service like EC2 are separate lines in your bill.
Be aware that AWS also charges for EBS volumes associated with your instance even when the instance is stopped.
Thank you so much Alex, I did noticed EBS keep counting and charging me even when my instances are in stopped status. so, is there a way to avoid this charge when instances are stopped?
If I understand you correctly about developer plan, the $29/mon is paid for support servies, I am not getting unlimited time usage of p2 or t2 during the month. I will still be charged for p2 $0.9, and t2.large $0.09 each hour, along with EBS charge even when instances are stopped. Is this what you mean?
You pay AWS for storing your data on EBS so the only way to stop charges is to delete EBS volume. But then you will lose all your data and setup - not a good option. All charges stop when you terminate (not stop) you instances, delete EBS volumes (may be deleted manually when instance is terminated - depends on your settings) and release Elastic IPs.
To sum up, AWS charges you
For running p2.xlarge instance - $0.9 per hour
For 128 Gb EBS volume - $12.8 per month (given the price $0.1 per Gb*month), does not depend if your instance is running or not
For allocated Elastic IP - $0.005 per hour when you instance is stopped
according to my bill, once I removed (or disassociated) all Elastic IP, and use Public IP as Alex suggested, $0.005 per Elastic IP address not attached to a running instance per hour (prorated) stopped counting.
However, EBS keeps counting and charging, at a much higher rate than Elastic IP at $0.1 per hour even when my instances are stopped.
Good point - I apologize my earlier comment was misleading. I forgot that stopping an instance means you pay for the elastic IP. Having said that, it’s only $3.60 per month, so maybe not worth worrying about too much!
Suppose my conditions are as follows: at the first day of a month
I have two instances: t2.large, p2.xlarge
two datasets: dogs (1G), cats (1G)
I have downloaded both datasets onto t2.large
I have not downloaded anything to p2.xlarge yet
My questions:
Is EBS storage my provisioned storage volume? Is it 2 G?
If I run some model on dogs dataset, then actual usage is 1G, but charged by size of 2G, right?
If on the second day I delete 1.8G dataset from t2.large instance and add 1G dataset onto p2.xlarge instance, then my provisioned storage volume is changed to 1.2G, right? and the EBS charge is based on volume 1.2G, not 2G anymore, right?
If on the third day I delete the 1.2 G dataset, then my provisioned storage volume is 0, meaning charge on EBS will stop on this day. right?
In reality, at the moment I have only downloaded dogscats dataset and kaggle cats and dogs dataset onto t2.large, both together is less than 2 G I think. But why my EBS now has used up 30GB-mo free and also used another 12.3 GB-mo? I wonder how this 42.3 GB-mo is calculated?
It says it provisions 128 Gb volume of SSD storage. In your case you have 256 Gb = 128 Gb x 2 provisioned no matter how much data is actually on this volume. So each day you are billed for 256 Gb x $0.1 / (Gb * month) /30 days ~ $1
I found it in setup_t2.sh and setup_p2.sh files, so I understand why my EBS volume is 128G x 2.
Since we are suggested to have both p2.xlarge and t2.large at the same time and I believe it is wise to do so, then I wonder whether 128G is really necessary for me taking this deep learning course:
My conditions:
having two datasets on cats and dogs on t2 instance is no more than 2 G, I think;
If I download both datasets onto p2 as well, then in total my storage volume is less than 4 G;
My Questions: (could @jeremy also have a look? thanks)
Is 128G x 2 for two instances really necessary for me doing homework for deep learning course?
if not, then would 10G as EBS volume be enough for doing homework, given I only keep one or two datasets on Instance?
If 10G is enough, then all I need to do is to terminate both t2 and p2, and change 128G to 10G in the setup scripts, and run those scripts again to get new p2.xlarge and t2.large. Right?
You could make your t2 much smaller. @vshets created a smaller instance and documented his approach - search his posts to see the details. It wasn’t as straightforward as just changing the size in the script, unfortunately.
Hi @Daniel,
Regarding your comments, I saw that you have 2 EBS: 1 for t2 and other for p2. Are you being charged by the 2 EBS? I am thinking to store all the files in git and download each time I need do a job but I think I will be charged by Data Transfer. Am I right? Is this a good idea?
Regards.
Hi @Daniel, @nunb
Please, where is the link to access the AMI created by @vshets? I did search the forum but could not find it.
I also want to create my 30 Gb volume.
Regards.