> About a month later, I got a bill for $60 from amazon. ...sounds like you launched the wrong instance type (specifically "small" instead of "micro"). Unfortu

> About a month later, I got a bill for $60 from amazon. ...sounds like you launched the wrong instance type (specifically "small" instead of "micro"). Unfortunately that's easy to do, since small is the default in most cases. From what I remember the docs regarding free usage aren't too emphatic about this issue. It's hard to out-and-out call this "user error", but I also don't think it's bait and switch. Mostly just poor documentation on amazon's part that contributed to a less-than-sufficient level of understanding on yours.