I've just set up a micro instance on EC2 (AMI ID ami-e59ca991). I had hoped to avoid charges for a year as my usage falls well within
the bound of
the free tier. I have been charged $0.01 for "regional data transfer". I read here that this is because my instance is talking to its self via it's external IP address.
From what I've Googled it looks like you can stop
the charges by making sure that
the instance uses its internal IP address. However, when I ping
the hostname of my instance internally (via an ssh session) it resolves to
the instances internal IP address.
How can I configure my instance so that I do not get these charges? Is it as simple as adding a line to my hosts file?
Additionally, is this
the real reason for
the charge? I'm concerned that I've misunderstood
the pricing somewhere. I have Apace and MySQL (with phpmyadmin) running on
the machine - could I be being charged for data transfer associated with these (I have only one flat HTML page and I have only logged in via phpmyadmin - I have no data in my database).
Edit:
Additionally, my user account on MySQL was declared as:
grant all privileges on *.* to 'peter'@'localhost';
Should I have instead used
the internal hostname for
the instance?
grant all privileges on *.* to '
[email protected]';
Cheers,
Pete
