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Just like the old saying goes: “Don’t mix business and pleasure” That means not mixing corporate Gmail (or Outlook, or anything else really) with your personal
by koolba 8y ago
Just like the old saying goes: “Don’t mix business and pleasure”
That means not mixing corporate Gmail (or Outlook, or anything else really) with your personal email.
Not using the email for your AWS account to purchase home goods on Amazons retail site.
At best your have the mild convenience of a single inbox. At worst Amazon shuts down your AWS account because you open a dispute for a fake Beanie Baby purchased off the retail site.
- cjhanks 8y agoWait what? I have heard a few horror stories about overly-harsh Amazon reviews resulting in a loss of access to AWS. But opening a dispute? Is this true?
- zatkin 8y agoI think what OP is getting at about w/r/t AWS can be clarified by my horror story: I once was using third party software (recommended by AWS) to upload 1 TB of data to AWS Glacier. The individual files were quite large, and if at any point during the upload the connection was lost, the third party software would start over from the beginning. I found this out after noticing that none of my backups had been uploaded after leaving it running overnight. I ended up getting charged something like $20K, which was insane! So I disputed this to Amazon, and they agreed to avoid charging me in exchange for a deletion of my account. Which was associated with my old Amazon.com account.
- pkaye 8y agoWere you able to make another Amazon account after that or do they ban you entirely?
- zatkin 8y agoI actually just created a new AWS account and changed the email on my Amazon account.
- mehrdadn 8y agoConfused, does AWS Glacier cost $20K/TB or something? How do you get charged that much just after one night of unchecked uploading?
- zatkin 8y agoThe third party software was doing a mixture of writing (uploading), and reading (to verify contents had been uploaded). It was continually trying to upload a 1 GB file for well over 12 hours. It's been a long time since this happened so I don't recall the exact figures, but I remember having some 4 or 5 figure charge from AWS. I think the third party software was just bad at handling large single file uploads over residential internet.
- dingo_bat 8y ago> At best your have the mild convenience of a single inbox. Which is also not an issue if you use a decent email client. Even Win10 default Mail app supports unified inbox for multiple accounts.
- gingerlime 8y agoI would say "Don't even mix business with business with Amazon" (not very) funnily enough, we have a business AWS account that is also used for Amazon (buying stuff for the office), as well as Amazon seller central. We've set up MFA on the AWS account, but it's in total conflict with the seller central account, which keeps asking for setting up MFA as well. If we set both, we're almost totally locked-out of our AWS. Somehow the MFA device gets mixed up or something. We can kinda squeeze-in if we try a few times with alternating between codes. Seller central seems connected to the Amazon retail, but not AWS. Totally bizarre. We've contacted AWS MFA support several times, but there's basically no solution for this. They claim it's all somehow integrated, but something isn't quite well integrated as it should be.
- exikyut 8y agoMaybe try pinging AWS's VP, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffbarr https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffbarr (email in bio link). My guess is that you might be the only person/company who has this specific setup, so there's either no ticket, or it has a priority of -99999. Still probably worth headscratching about internally... (If emailing works out, I'd be very interested to know!)