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I am using the aws price list api to retrieve on demand price for ec2 instances. As part of the filters there is a field called 'Usage-Type' which has a term box-usage as part of it. What exactly does Box Usage mean? Also, box usage is not present for all instance types, for example, t2.small does not have this usage type in 'eu-west-1' ie, Ireland. What exactly does 'Box-Usage' mean?
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The general answer is "No Instance Type" charge is for all the services that are not running on ec2 instances.
AWS Cost and Usage Reports tracks your AWS usage and provides estimated charges associated with your account. Each report contains line items for each unique combination of AWS products, usage type, and operation that you use in your AWS account.
Use features in the Billing console to view your current AWS charges and AWS usage. Sign into the AWS Management Console and open the Billing console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/ . Choose Bills to see details about your current charges. Choose Payments to see your historical payment transactions.
Stopped instances don't incur charges, but Elastic IP addresses or EBS volumes attached to those instances do. To disassociate an Elastic IP address from an instance, see Disassociating an Elastic IP address. For information on releasing an unattached Elastic IP address, see Releasing an Elastic IP address.
"BoxUsage" and all its variants is the name the cost of running EC2 instances, i.e. the per second charge. There are other charges related to running EC2 instances, like cross zone networking, etc. but "BoxUsage" corresponds to the per hour prices listed on the pricing pages.
The billing data is full of small inconsistencies and weird details, and if t2.small doesn't have a proper value in a specific region I wouldn't be surprised. It's like how m1.small doesn't have the instance type in the usage type column, it's just "BoxUsage" – probably because it was the first and, for a time, only instance type.
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