What is USE1-PaidRDSvCPUMonitored?

Last updated: January 09, 2025

GuardDuty RDS protection will profile login activity for RDS instances for potential threats. Oddly, Amazon charges for RDS GuardDuty on a per vCPU per month fee. This specific billing code is the per vCPU charge for GuardDuty RDS protection. Please note that as you scale up the size of your RDS database with more vCPUs, you will incur more correponding costs from Guard Duty.

This specific billing code is related to the US East region in Northern Virginia.

The postfix represents the instance type, USE1-PaidRDSvCPUMonitored.

It belongs to the GuardDuty category of service AmazonGuardDuty.