About a year ago, my startup received some promotional credits. At the time, the company didn't have any credit card or e-mail so I redeemed the credits to my own AWS account. We now consider that it's more appropriate for the company to have its dedicated AWS account. I would therefore like to transfer those promotional credits to the new company account.
It seems that this is not possible, but surely there must be some way around this? What are my options?
Introductory Consideration
1st of all we must keep in mind the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions
You may not sell, license, rent, or otherwise transfer Promotional Credit. Promotional Credit may be applied only to your own AWS
account. Promotional Credit has no intrinsic value, is not redeemable
for cash, has no cash value, is nonrefundable, and serves merely as a
means to provide an incentive to use our Services. Promotional Credit
may not be purchased for cash, and we and our affiliates do not sell
Promotional Credit.
However, you have 2 ways to share / move these credits with other AWS accounts you own as presented below
Option 1: Transferring credits ownership via AWS Support Case
You will need to open a billing support request in the AWS console and request your AWS promotional credits to be transfer to a new account that is also under your ownership.
Thereof, how do I transfer ownership of AWS Credits?
Open the AWS Support Center.
Choose "Create case".
Enter the details of your case: Choose "Account and billing support". For Type, choose "Account". For Category, choose "Ownership Transfer". And detail clearly which will be the destination account to which you want to transfer the credits ownership from your current account.
Choose a contact method.
Choose "Submit".
Follow up on the case with the AWS support team to transfer the credits.
Option 2: Share credits by joining or creating an AWS organization with the AWS account that has active credits on it
You should choose between the below presented options depending which one best suit your scenario:
Joining an existing AWS Organization: AWS applies credits under an account to the AWS organization's consolidated bill, beginning the first full billing cycle after an account joins the organization. NOTE "Sharing Credits" must be turned on.
RESULT: So your Account credits will be shared with the Management and Members accounts of the AWS Organization you've joined.
Create an AWS Organization: Since AWS applies credits under an account to the AWS organization's consolidated bill, all the Organizations members accounts credits will be shared across all applicable usage incurred by member accounts. NOTE "Sharing Credits" must be turned on.
RESULT: After creating the Organization with your account, this will now be your new Management account. You can now invite pre-existing accounts or create new organization member accounts that will be able to use your Management account credits.
Read More: How are credits and promotions calculated in an organization in AWS Organizations?
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i have a 30 day free trail Snowflake account. I am accessing a dataset [Covid-19 starschema] in this . The need now is to map the underlying AWS instance with a AWS account id which i already have. I want to avoid overrunning the credits available and would want the billing to be linked to my AWS account id. Any guidance on how to achieve this?
Depending on the region your AWS Account is hosted in you can potentially use AWS Marketplace to link your Snowflake account to your AWS billing.
Additionally, unless you have contacted Snowflake directly, to organize a different arrangement, typically the free trial period credits will run out and any snowflake activity halted when used up, you won't be charged for any additional usage.
Is it possible to fix the maximum quota (of credits) usable by an user?
For example, fixing a limit of 1000 USD for a particular user per month or year.
What I have looked at so far:
1. Guide to Cloud Billing Resource Organization & Access Management
2. Working with Quotas
3. How-to Guides -- Cloud Billing
4. Resource Quotas
I believe none of these articles have the answer. So, please atleast let me know if it's possible.
No, it's not possible per user, you can only set budget alerts on project, with several threshold for notification, and ONLY FOR NOTIFICATION. The project won't be shut down in case of limit reached.
You can also send these alerts into PubSub and then perform some special operation, like deactivate the billing on the project (and thus stop totally the project). There is an example here
This limitation is not perfect, in particular when users use BigQuery. If a user do anything, the whole project is impacted. About BigQuery, billed byte limitations should be released, a day.
Hello Community Support
I signed up for the Google Compute Engine and did not realise that I would be charged $1000. The payment did not go through as there is not enough money on my credit card and I cannot pay the balance.
I didnt want to phone Google Support as they may hassle me for payment
Can you make any suggestions for a way to resolve this?
Thanks
sas
Google provides free support for Google Cloud billing questions - contact them.
Google Cloud Billing Support
I signed up for the Google Compute Engine and did not realise that I
would be charged $1000.
Google Cloud will automatically charge your card when you reach thresholds. The default for new accounts is $100.00 USD. Were you charged $100.00?
Additionally Google implements quotas for Compute resources. What type of resouce did you create that incurred $1,000.00 in charges? This would have exceeded your new account quota limit, so I wonder how you accomplished this ...
There is something odd about your first credit card charge being $1,000 USD as you should have received a number of charges for $100.00 each. After a credit card payment fails, you will receive billing payment notices. None of this would have happened mysteriously unless you do not read your email or SPAM filters blocked the notices.
Always take the time to learn what cloud resources cost. Understand that pricing, billing, resources and usage are important items not to be overlooked. Google, like most companies, is in the business to provide services and products that customers want and to make a profit while doing so.
I currently have an account with AWS and I am using the free tier which lasts for 12 months, and then all usage after this 12 month period on this account will be billed at the standard rate.
However I am still in initial testing with AWS so is it possible to create a new account and receive the 12 month free tier again or is it some how tied to the credit card/personal information so that a single user cannot receive it more than once?
Yes, it is possible to create a new account but not with the free benefits they will be able to track it via the Credit card and your Machine ID
To quote the AWS Policy it says
"You will not be eligible for the Offer if you or your organization create(s) more than one account to receive additional benefits under the Offer,You will be charged standard rates for use of AWS services if we determine that you are not eligible for the Offer."
All the information
https://aws.amazon.com/free/terms/
Therefore, you can only receive the AWS free tier once per your registered card , email address and MAC Address
As you understand from title i have trouble with payments
route53 contain few domain and many sub-domains
Can somebody say when amazon destroy my account and all my domains and sub-domains?
UDP: i didn't pay almost 2 month. I don't wont to close my account. I'm wait when i get enough money to pay my bill. And another question: in all cases amazon will close account in the next month ?
About Route 53 pricing,
With Hosted-zone, check This Link. You must pay with monthly billing
And with Domain, you already paid when you buy them. Pricing: This link
About aws account, your account will be closed in the next month with condition:
You already paid all your billing until the end of month
Go to Aws Account page and click "Close Account". Ref