Issue
recently I recive this email with an alert from AWS EC2 instance (its an free tier elegible with T2.Micro). I really do not understand this alert since no content that has been uploaded to the server weighs more than several megabytes. Thanks for your help!
The email alert from AWS:
Solution
This alert is about Elastic Block Storage. This means it is related to the sum of provisioned disk capacity multiplied by the running time of your instances/volumes. To get more details how it is calculated, see here: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
30GB-Mo under free tier means: You could provision a drive with 30GB and let it run continuously for an entire month.
The warning indicates, that the sum of all provisioned storage of your instances and volumes is higher than 30GB.
Note: The actual data uploaded and/or how much is free, is irrelevant. So for example a micro instance with default settings counts 8GB towards your limit and it does not matter that the fresh Linux without any data is only a couple hundred megabyte.
Answered By - Sebastian Freitag Answer Checked By - Clifford M. (WPSolving Volunteer)