title: Elastic IP Address billing without any instance running
body: <p>I am currently on my free tier. I followed the guide to hosting a wordpress website while remaining in the free tier. I started a Linux t2.micro instance and used one Elastic IP.
  Surprisingly I got this bill:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjpR2.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjpR2.png" alt=""></a></p>
  
  <p>It didn't even reach 730 Hrs for EC2 which is the monthly limit. I stopped the instance, and then terminated it so that any other charges don't occur. It asked me to release the Elastic IP address before terminating, which I did. Now there's no Elastic IP address or any machine instance. </p>
  
  <p>But today I opened up the billing dashboard and saw that I was charged $0.5 for $0.005 per Elastic IP address not attached to a running instance per hour (prorated).
  And after a while it's this now.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUYhK.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUYhK.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>How do I stop it? Plus why was I charged while I was still in my free tier. </p>
  
  <p>edit 1:
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  <p>edit 2: Increasing again
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mWlJD.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mWlJD.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>