Reducing my AWS bill

5/24/25

I have my own AWS account for my hobby projects and the other day I was curious about where my money was going.

Turns out I still had an ECS scheduled task running twice a day, AND an ALB that was stood up when I was playing around with Elastic Beanstalk. The ALB was hard to find but I finally found it wandering around in the us-west-2 region.

Anyways, I’m happy to report that my bill now looks like this:

Also, for my future self, if you ever change the name of the GitHub repo that AWS Amplify uses, run this command pointed at the new repo:

aws amplify update-app \
--app-id <amplifyappid> \
--repository <token> \
--access-token <token (classic)>

Thanks to user Ivn1 from this site.