AWS RDS PostgreSQL: How Is Storage Billed if Used for Only 1 Week?

DevOps AWS
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Hi team :wave:,
I’m planning to run an RDS PostgreSQL instance with 2.6 TB of storage for about 1 week. My question is — at the end of the month, will the billing for that storage be calculated for the entire month or just for the 1 week that it was actually used?
Could someone help clarify this?

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If you delete the instance and any snapshots at the end of the week you should only get charged for one week

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I’m not aware of any AWS resources that are prorated for a whole month if you don’t have the resource provisioned for a whole month. Most services have at least minute-level billing (meaning if you run an EC2 instance or RDS db for 10 minutes, you only get charged for 10 minutes). I think a lot of services are actually billed down to the second

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AWS customer support is charged for at least a month. :slightly_smiling_face: