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I took a micro free tier from Amazon a month and a half back. But towards the end of last month I received a bill of ~$13 for Amazon services usage.

The webpage quotes

750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*

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Can someone help me figure out if this is a billing mistake or if it's an issue with my understanding of “free”?

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Seems like this is something Amazon Customer Support would be able to take care of quite easily. – ErikA Jun 7 '11 at 5:49
I've been using EC2 micro instances for several months without problem. I average 35 cents a month due to storing a couple of images. How many instances are you running, are they all micro, and how many images are you storing? I have found the billing explanations clear have you doubled checked the details? – zedman9991 Jun 7 '11 at 15:23
What's the red asterisk beside the 'rate' denoting, and where are you getting this extract - it doesn't look like anything AWS provides. – ceejayoz Jun 7 '11 at 16:17
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I have had same issue because my Amazon account was created way before I had signed up for free usage tier. Excerpt from their AWS Free Usage Tier Offer Terms:

Only accounts created after October 20, 2010 are eligible for the Offer. The Offer does not apply to any use of the AWS services prior to November 1, 2010.

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