Will I be charged for 2 AWS Workspaces, if I delete the one I have and replace it with a new one within one month?

Question

I am trying to setup AWS Worskspace, the machine works fine, but for Connect Directory I always see the status failed. The message I get is. I tried joining Amazon EC2 instance to the Directory and it was successful. Also I installed AD Tools and was able to enable/disable user accounts.

Connectivity issues detected: DNS unavailable (TCP port 53) for IP: 172.192.14.53, DNS unavailable (TCP port 53) for IP: 172.192.29.235. Please ensure that the listed ports are available and retry the operation

What am I missing (I have not admin experience)? I cannot find a way to retry the operation and I don't know what operation it is talking about. However I have workspace(experimental) running. When I try to delete the Connect Directory I get the message

Are you sure you want to delete the following directory? This will delete all users, groups, and computers that are defined by the directory, and the directory cannot be recovered.

I am assuming it will also delete my workspace and the machine I am running. So will I be charged another $60 if I get a new workspace - replace this with a new one - after this one is deleted ?

Answer 1

Cloud Directory differs from Connect Directory. While Cloud Directory is AWS Managed and is like a Active/Domain Directory, Connect Directory is the connection to On Premise Directory. We don't need both of them. We can work with either.

If I delete a workspace any billed charges will not be returned. However if I launch a workspace after the 1st day of Month, then the cost would be prorated. So if I launch it on 5th Day for a $60 workspace in a month of 30 days I would be billed $(60/30*(30-11)) = $52 (10th day is included as full day).

Even if I delete all my workspace I can decide to keep Cloud Directory/Connect Diretory, I don't incur cost for it.

Thanks.