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Juano7894
Juano7894

Reputation: 830

AWS - EBS Snapshots is exceeding free tier

2 months ago I started using AWS and now I am having an issue with the Free Tier.

I installed a system with the elastic beanstalk tool (1 EC2 and 1 RDS).

Now I am seeing in Management Dashboard that I will be exceeding my monthly limit for EBS Snapshots. The forecast is 194.94% and I am just starting the month.

I reviewed all the settings and I couldn't find anything strange.

EC2

1 Running instances
1 volumes
2 Key Pairs
1 Elastic Ips
1 Snapshots

By looking the volume menu in AWS, the Snapshot id in the only volume that I have is not the same as the snapshot that I have. This is strange.

volume information:

Volume ID   --> vol-0cff610c
Size        --> 8 Gib
Volume type --> gp2
IOPS        --> 100 / 3000
Snapshot    --> snap-04786
State       --> in-use

And in the snapshot menu, the volume id is not the same as the volume that I have in the other view.

Snapshot Information

Snapshot ID --> snap-0d2988
Size        --> 8Gib
Volume      --> vol-05f5fee
Status      --> completed

Does anybody have an idea of what is causing this problem with the EBS?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2940

Answers (3)

Juano7894
Juano7894

Reputation: 830

today I reviewed again the information and AWS console.

My problem was that I have an unused AMI and the snapshot was related to that AMI.

I thought that the only AMI I had was being used by the instance. But I was wrong, the AMI used in the instance was a different one. Probably because I started my instance with elastic beanstalk.

So the solution was to deregister this unused AMI, then delete the Snapshot.

Thanks to all

Upvotes: 1

Gapton
Gapton

Reputation: 2124

Elastic Beanstalk can create AWS resources and terminate them automatically for you, depending on your workload.

If your server was under heavy workload at some point, Elastic Beanstalk could have provisioned auto scaling group with Elastic Load Balancer, and the number of EC2 instances can increase to cater for the increased workload.

As the workload drops, it can terminate the instances for you as well. Resulting in left-over snapshots, especially if you code writes to the local EC2 hdd.

Elastic Beanstalk is the "one-click" solution for deploying scalable clusters of servers.

Similar services are as follow :

  1. Elastic Beanstalk (easiest)
  2. OpsWorks
  3. Cloud Formation (hardest)

LightSail is not included here as it doesn't really scale automatically. Lambda is serverless so it is fundamentally different.

Upvotes: 1

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 270224

Firstly, don't panic. EBS Snapshots are 5c/GB/month. Worst case, 8GB = 40c/month.

Secondly, if you don't want a snapshot, just delete it. Especially if you don't remember making it, and don't need to keep it.

Upvotes: 5

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