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by RexM 1709 days ago
I'd login and go look at your most recent bill, this should bring up the bill from September 2021, for you [1].

That should give you a breakdown of where the charges are coming from, specifically which region an EC2 instance might be running in. Once you can figure out which region it's in, you can go to the EC2 dashboard for that region [2] and start terminating instances.

Having said this, AWS should seriously have a way to say "close this account and delete/stop everything associated with it." Having to spelunk through bills and the AWS console to figure out what you're getting charged for is a joke.

[1]: https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/bills?year=202...

[2]: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=...: (update both us-west-2 with whatever region you're looking for)

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Thanks! This is really helpful. Looks like it was a WorkSpace I spun up... I have no idea why I did that.