How to close an Amazon AWS account

If you open an AWS account and use Amazon's Web service, you may have already paid the bill by credit card. Recently I found that the current AWS billing system is getting more and more strange, but it should be closed first, so that he will not receive money in a cold manner. ⊙ B Khan

I have suffered from sweetness and bitterness in AWS. Let's talk about the sweetness first, of course, a one-year free trial period, and then obtained a coupon worth 70 knives through an AWS101 course survey. According to the current AWS charging standard, a micro-Linux example was launched, and nothing was done yet. It was purely tested and 70 knives soon ran out.

It is bitter to taste the sweetness. The key is that there is no obvious notification, and the cold will be charged. Azure may be a little better at this point. There is a threshold to stop paying. Amazon doesn't have it. It's from your credit card, until you get your money out of stock. Haha.

 

First of all, during the free period, I always thought that EC2 instances would not be charged if they were stopped, but I was secretly charged for more than 10 knives. Later, I learned that the Elastic IP address I bound to an EC2 instance is always on during the free period, because EC2 + an Elastic IP address is free during the free period. The key is that I want to save resources for Amazon. I think this example is of no particular use, so I should turn it off. The result is an error. The EC2 instance is stopped, and the Elastic IP address is still bound, that is, the Elastic IP address is also bound to an example not started. Amazon thinks this is a waste of IP resources, but wants to ask me for money. It's really hard to say that linen eats berberine. Why can't Amazon automatically unbind the Eclipse IP address after stopping the EC2 instance? So,Remember: after stopping the EC2 instance, you must manually unbind the Elastic IP address..

 

Then I used the coupon and the 70-knife coupon for more than two months. This time would just make you forget that you are still driving a useless example there, when the free amount is used up, it starts to quietly charge, and I still don't know, it will be known after the next month's credit card bill comes, it has been nearly 20 knives. Else...

 

So I quickly stopped the example. In the past, I stopped EC2 and showed that the instance would not receive money. I also learned that I did not bind an Elastic IP address. as a result, the bill for this month is about 15 more knives, which is totally messy. After another check, the original EBS storage fee will also be charged, and the EBS storage fee will also be charged if the instance is stopped and put there, I don't know when to change the rule. I'm afraid it's the latest thing, but I didn't receive any notifications...

 

Well, in this case, turn off the account first. (Of course, I'm not sure if it's actually closed. The credit card information is still on Amazon. They 've been sticking to the braid)

 

First go to My Account, in the upper right corner of the page:

 

 

Scroll down to the bottom, there is a very small word: Cancel Your AWS Account click

 

 

Then go to the prompt page and click the very obvious button on the right:

 

Then you will be prompted that your account has been stopped. However, it is stopped, and the original fees are still paid. I have not found the place where I can delete the credit card information. I can't do it after I read it online. Maybe the most effective way is to sell the card...