How many times can one receive the AWS free tier? - amazon-web-services

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

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Do i need to make some payment on my free-tier AWS account? What should i do now?

I received this mail now and I am using a free-tier account of AWS. This is for the first time that I got an email from them regarding my usage and I don't know what to do in response to this. Do I need to take some actions on my AWS account? Please help me I am new to AWS.
I also got to know that I have been billed $0.59 on this account. So do I need to do some payment or is it fine?
Apparently you used a feature from Route 53 that is not part of the free tier. It is not a fine, it is a service charge and needs to be paid. If you have your credit card on file, it will automatically be deducted. To ensure not to incur any more costs, have a look at the services and features that are part of the free tier here, and turn off everything else.
To prevent this in the future you can set up a budget which will send you a warning when your service charges are going beyond a predefined amount.
You will need to pay this.
With AWS the free tier covers a select number of services, some of these last 12 months from the opening of the account whereas others have a free tier forever (such as Lambda with 1,000,000 free invocations per month).
You're being billed for Route 53 which does not have a free tier.
The complete list of free tier is available from this link.
That is a courtesy email saying that you have exceeded 85% of a free tier limit for an AWS Free Tier-eligible service. Specifically, you have used 643 hours of Load Balancer usage out of a limit of 750 hours (643/750=85.7%).
It is not a bill. Is simply letting you know about your usage, because your total consumption for the month might exceed 100% of the Free Tier for that service.
That email is totally separate to the charge for Route 53 that you have incurred.

Lambda pricing limited to account or organization?

I have an organization and with in that organization we have 3 accounts.
All 3 accounts have been created month back and the master account of the organization is more than a year old.
I have Lambda function in all 4 account(including the root account).
I know lambda offers 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.
My question here is:
Is 1million request per account? or spread through out my organization?
Is my organization (root account) still valid for 1M free request? If the request are with in 1million?
The AWS Free Tier page says:
Always Free
1,000,000 free requests per month
Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month
This means that each account receives these free limits every month (regardless of the age of the account).
Free Tier benefits are not shared between accounts. They are given to each account individually.

Transfer AWS promotional credits

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?

Does the AWS Billing Management Dashboard take into account Free Tier usage

About a month ago I opened an AWS account to try out Amazon's own tutorial for EC2 services, only to give up after encountering an error.
Today I accessed my account once again, only to find out three tasks have been running in the background the whole month. My Billing Management Dashboard shows a hefty total in the upper right, but in the "free usage" tier the only exceeded entry is S3 Puts, of about 10%.
I can't seem to find a soruce anywhere in the documentation explaining whether the total billing in the upper right takes into account the Free Tier or not. At the end of this month, will I be billed entirely or only the % difference? I'm more or less okay with the latter, but I can't really afford the former.
I've obviously opened a support ticket right away, but since I'm on the basic plan I'm afraid they might answer me after the current bill becomes active.
Thank you for any answers.
You will be billed only for the % difference.
All services that offer a free tier have limits on what you can use without being charged. Many services have multiple types of limits. For example, Amazon EC2 has limits on both the type of instance you can use, and how many hours you can use in one month. Amazon S3 has a limit on how much memory you can use, and also on how often you can call certain operations each month. For example, the free tier covers the first 20,000 times you retrieve a file from Amazon S3, but you are charged for additional file retrievals. Each service has limits that are unique to that service.
Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier-limits.html

AWS Free Account, how do I know when I will be charged

I am planning to use a AWS free account to learn Amazone Web Services. How do I know which options I use in the account will get charged?
When I finish the free trial period how do I cancel the account?
During the configuration of the services, AWS always displays which services are allowed on Free Tier. This could be the first point: no Free Tier label = you will be charged.
The second one is an alarm creation in Cloudwatch about finance limit: if it is not 0, you will be alarmed.
The cancellation is easy: you have to log in with your root account, and you can just submit a cancellation request. After the account has been suspended, you have 30 days until they will delete it (but the resources will be deleted immediately).