Investigating High Number of Configurations Received in AWS AppConfig Stackoverflow

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Subject: Cost Anomaly in AWS AppConfig - Configuration Received

Hi Team,

I’m experiencing a cost anomaly in our AWS account related to AppConfig, and I’m having trouble understanding it. The billing details indicate that 669,413 configurations have been received, which seems unusually high to me.

Here’s why I’m concerned:

  • We only have one application in AWS AppConfig.
  • This application has one configuration profile and one environment.
  • There have been only 11 deployments in total.
  • Each configuration is in JSON format and is no more than 20 lines.

Given this setup, I’m struggling to understand why the number of configurations received is so high. Could someone help me dive deeper into what “configurations received” means and why it might be showing such a large number?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Best regards,
Nellai Thambiran

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it might be receiving ‘configurations’ from changes in events (sqs etc) or scalling events, s3 bucket objects etc, these can all be included as ‘config’ changes so you need to scope it carefully

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yah, or if you have a failure to launch on an ECS container or something. If those flap on and off for days, that can lead to big charges