Amazon RDS Free Usage Tier is it really not to get out of the I / O limit?

Question

Amazon Web Services

I started to get acquainted with the Amazon cloud, created RDS on sql server express.
I never connected to the server, it just created and remained on. Now in the statistics I see:

Amazon RDS Storage
$0.00 per GB-month of provisioned storage under monthly free trial	1.028 GB-Mo	0.00
$0.00 per 1 million I/O requests under monthly free trial	138.978IOs	0.00
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Express Edition (License Included)
$0.00 per Micro DB instance-hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server-EX (LI) under monthly free tier	37 Hrs	0.00

Total 139k IO on an inactive base in 37 hours. Those. about 2.5 million in a month.
Am I doing something wrong or is their RDS unrealistic to use for free as they claim?

Answer 1

It depends on what to use it for, it seems to me that for any small project you will have to pay extra, plus the performance of the micro instance has been jumping a lot
for half a year on FreeTier, but I have a virtual machine there only for training, once I got out of the I / O limits when I started the calculation for 1GB SQLite the database, which ran 200k times over 200k records, used up the limit per day
Most often I do not fit into the amount of outgoing traffic

Answer 2

How did you do it? I got 2 server pitches in a month:

Everything is real. 10 million IO operations is quite dofiga!