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AWS Lightsail is a set of services within Amazon Web Services that provides virtual-servers with popular pre-configured software options - such as a Wordpress server. It is notable for more-or-less instant setup speed and low cost operation.
The Lightsail service also includes external IP addresses, to make your server internet publicly accessible, as well as snapshots and backups.
AWS Lightsail charging for deleted servers
Lightsail offers a clear remove button, and upon pressing it ask multiple times if you wish to delete your server - noting you will lose your server and its contents. The server then disappears from Lightsail page, but the client is still charged for the server.
This is explained by AWS Customer Service revealing that deleting servers does not automatically delete screenshots and backups within that server.
Per AWS, if a backup, snapshot, or resource (like an IP address) associated with a server still exists - it is billable even though the server or service is gone.