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I tried to create account on aws.amazon.com. But it needs credit card information to complete the login process.
As I do not intend to use AWS for any commercial purpose but for academic/self-learning purpose, is there way to create a trial account ( probably a limited version say limited functionalities or limited time period )
There is no such thing as a 'free' AWS account. All accounts are full, production accounts. You will always need to provide a credit card to use AWS (or sign-up for invoicing). If you wish to try some AWS service, you can take advantage of the Free Usage Tier.
The AWS Free Usage Tier provides a limited quantity of some AWS services at no charge. When you exceed the quantity of usage (eg hours of an Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance, amount of storage in Amazon S3), then you will be charged normal rates for the service.
although this is an old question but it will help someone. So If you are a student or educator AWS also provide credits for hands-on experience with AWS technology, training, content, career pathways and the AWS Educate job board.
You can join from below link
AWS Educate
The new AWS Educate Starter Account requires no credit card to join.
Now you can create an AWS account using a debit card(debit card is easy to get). I created an AWS account with my debit card. I wrote a blog about this topic.
Create AWS account without a credit card. Hope it will help someone.
You can use your debit card to create your free tier account. They basically charge you Rs.2 and that will be refunded once your account is created. You no more need to have a credit card in specific. Then again there needs to be some payment method linked to your account.
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One year ago I have created an AWS free trial account and I haven't used it yet. Will it charge anything? Now I have suspended my account by myself. Will it be a problem? Can I create a new AWS account now with the same email or credit card details?
Understand the AWS Free Tier
The AWS Free Tier provides customers the ability to explore and try out AWS services free of charge up to specified limits for each service. The Free Tier is comprised of three different types of offerings, a 12-month Free Tier, an Always Free offer, and short term trials. Services with a 12-month Free Tier allow customers to use the product for free up to specified limits for one year from the date the account was created.
More information about Free tier can be found here: AWS Free Tier FAQs
If you did not use any of the services, or if you terminated/removed your resources before the end of the free trial and did not you didn't exceed the free tier limits you won'`t be charged.
Can I use the same email twice?
AWS does not allow the same email id across more than one AWS accounts, even if you close the AWS account associated with the email id. You can reopen your account following this doc Can I reopen my closed AWS account
Can I use my credit card in different accounts?
For the credit card, you will not have problems to use with multiple AWS accounts.
If you need help you can try to contact the AWS support here.
I opened a so-called "free tier" account on AWS to learn about cloud services.
Now my credit card is charged every month and is costing me a lot of money.
I looked at the billing and I saw a Amazon RDS service in a Zone in USA.
I thought to delete the RDS instance but it was not possible even after trying several times and as hard as I could (All possible options and several times)
RDS instance could not be deleted by any means.
I thought to "stop" the instance at least it would cost less money. I saw the instance was stopped but for unclear reasons it started after 7 days again.
After a lot of frustration I decided to delete my AWS account in an attempt to stop the billing and prevent a bankruptcy. Amazon AWS still is billing the running the instance even after deleting my AWS account.
Now I cannot even login to AWS and cannot do anything.
I know I could block my credit card and get a new one, but I costs time and I would rather keep my existing credit card.
I want to open a lawsuit against AWS Amazon since it clearly violates European laws.
Please help me to answer the following questions
how can I stop this billing and prevent Amazon AWS to charge my credit card?
Where Do I get contact with AWS support, for this level I only find community help but no direct contact with AWS Support.
Where can I find information about precedent cases to prepare a lawsuit?
Many thanks for your help, this is very important since it has a big financial impact for me.
It is very easy to contact AWS support. There is a direct link in the navbar at the top right. AWS is actually pretty helpful when it comes to new users being accidentally overcharged. They will simply cancel your charges if you raised a ticket on time. https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home?#/
What did you do to delete your account? I doubt your root account is deleted. Try logging in with root credentials (email and password) then raise a support ticket.
I can't give you legal advise but do you really intend to sue a company who you did not contact even though their support links are on every page of the their product?
The AWS Free Tier provides a billing discount for certain AWS services. It is not a 'Free Account'.
You could contact AWS Customer Service (which is different to AWS Customer Support). They handle all billing-related queries.
Go to https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ and select Billing or Account support.
If you are unable to signing, go to: https://support.aws.amazon.com/#/contacts/aws-account-support/
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I have got 75 dollars and 1 years of free tier uses in amazon awseducate. it is called amazon aws student starter pack. I created only one ec2 instance and one rds in free tier. But Amazon is charging from the 75 dollars every day. Even I cannot issue a support ticket. Because student account can't create a support ticket.
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/educate-starter-account/
Having the free tier doesn't mean everything is free - there are certain products, and certain levels of products that are free - if you use products or services outside the designated free options, you will need to pay - sometimes a lot.
For example, you can use 1 free ec2 instance of the t2 type free for a year (I believe its only the t2-small).
If you spin up a d2.8xlarge instead, and leave it running all year you will have a bill of almost $50K - so pay attention to what is free and what you are using; check your bill often, and contact aws support on their support forums or at the /r/aws forum on reddit.
The answer is the aws educate doesnt support free tier.Most student get confused about support ticket because aws support ticket is blocked from account console. But there is another ink for awseducate support. I dont know why they make two support service different here is the link https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/contact-us/
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I am new to Amazon AWS and as a freelancer I am not clear on how I would facilitate dozens of clients using AWS. I average 5 clients per month. How would I do billing and set up instances for multiple clients? I have been using godaddy for a long time and they have a pro user dashboard that manages all of that.
You should create a separate AWS account for each client. If you are handling the AWS payments, then you could use AWS Organizations to combine the accounts into a single bill. You will be able to split the billing report into accounts to see exactly what each client owes you for AWS services.
This will also allow you to hand over an AWS account to a client, or provide their developers with access if they need it, without compromising your other clients in any way.
If you are the only person who can access the AWS services (eg management console, create resources, etc), then #MarkB's suggestion is sound: Create separate AWS Accounts under an Organization, the the customers for their usage.
Another benefit of this method is that you might want to charge your clients a fixed amount per month, or an uplift (eg extra 20% on top of AWS costs) for your service of managing their account and taking care of payments.
If, however, your clients have the ability to create resources under AWS, you might want to have them setup the AWS accounts so that it bills them directly. This is because your clients might create resources that cost additional money and might then claim that they didn't realise the impact of what they were doing, thus leaving you with a bill that they don't want to pay.
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I need a place to host a small basic static web site made up of a bunch of file and folders (html, css, images, etc.) for a non-profit. I've looked at Amazon AWS a bit and it looks like it could be done for a very small cost.
Is it really possible to host a web site At Amazon AWS for under a $1.00/month?
Is there any way to use the free AWS and then determine what the cost would have been if one used the paid option?
Is it really possible to host a web site At Amazon AWS for under a
$1.00/month?
If you just have static files, then you can definitely host the site on S3 for a very low price. If you have a dynamic website (PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.) then you will need an actual server to run that on, and it will be more like $5 a month minimum.
Note that you will pay for data transfer, so if your site gets very popular the price could start to go up.
Is there any way to use the free AWS and then determine what the cost
would have been if one used the paid option?
You can enable detailed billing on the AWS account. Then you could punch those numbers into the AWS cost calculator to see what the charges would have been if you were not in your free tier period.
Is it really possible to host a web site At Amazon AWS for under a
$1.00/month?
It is possible for 1$/Month in AWS but your usage and traffic has to be less. Free tier is available but it is available for one year only and following are the resources available in free tier https://aws.amazon.com/free/.
You can also refer this which gives approximation. http://www.hostingadvice.com/how-to/aws-s3-pricing/
Is there any way to use the free AWS and then determine what the cost
would have been if one used the paid option?
You can calculate this cost at https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Also you stated in your question it is non-profit. So AWS provides $2000 credits for non-profits.
https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nonprofits/