I'm having a bit of trouble with my AWS billing. According to the cost breakdown, I'm still being charged for Elastic Compute Cloud and some other services, but I've gone through everything and can't find any running instances, VPCs, or EC2s in any region. I even checked the US-east (Ohio) region, where I was previously working, but there's nothing there. Is there any way to track down exactly what I'm being charged for through the Cost and Billing center or maybe using the CLI? I'm familiar with the CLI, so if that has any extra options, I'm open to that too.
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Hey! I totally get how frustrating that can be. You might want to check out the AWS billing documentation to get started. Here's a helpful link to the Cost and Billing Center: https://go.aws/4nzHAoR. If you're comfortable using the command line, there's also documentation that can help you explore your charges better: https://go.aws/4nwa56V. If all else fails, you can always open a support case with AWS—they have tools to dig into your account and figure out what's going on.
Try switching the dimension in the Cost Explorer to usage type. That might give you a better idea of what charges are showing up.
Thanks for the tip! I did that, but it keeps indicating I have a t3.micro instance in Ohio, even though my dashboard says there are no instances there. Any ideas why that might be happening?