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It took me 2 years to get AWS to stop billing me a few cents a month. I didn't try that hard but every month or so I'd get another bill for like 23 cents. I'd l

by mrits 5y ago

It took me 2 years to get AWS to stop billing me a few cents a month. I didn't try that hard but every month or so I'd get another bill for like 23 cents. I'd login and try to figure out what was still turned on.

foolfoolz 5y ago
i have this happening on gcp and aws. i get a text from my credit card each month for like 10-25 cents. i’ve gone in multiple times all the consoles show $0 it’s impossible to track down. it’s so cheap i haven’t cared enough to dig more
- bspammer 5y ago
  https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/bills?year=2021&month=9 https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/bills?year=202... This page should show you a full breakdown of exactly what’s costing you money across all regions.
- MattGaiser 5y ago
  Yep. I have some one cent a month bill from GCP from Hackathon days.
  - citizenpaul 5y ago
    There is a good chance all of you have a reserved IP address floating around somewhere in the settings. It costs like .05 a month
- dilyevsky 5y ago
  Both services have billing breakdowns by sku. Are you saying it shows nothing?
Aeolun 5y ago
I found the solution to that problem. I just actually use AWS for some stuff now, and my bill turned into a nice $20 ish dollars :P
mey 5y ago
Have had AWS tell us to chargeback a payment that we couldn't cancel.
jonas21 5y ago
AWS has been billing me a few cents per month for over a decade now. Eventually, the credit card I was using expired, and so every month for the past 7 years, they've sent me an email: > Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, > Your AWS Account is about to be suspended. There is still an outstanding payment problem with your account, as our previous communications did not lead to successful payment of your past due AWS charges. > We were unable to charge your credit card for the amount of $0.26 for your use of AWS services during the month of Aug-2021. We will attempt to collect this amount again. Unless we are successful in collecting the balance of $0.26 in full by 09/30/2021, your Amazon Web Services account may be suspended or terminated. The balance never increases, even though it always says the charges are from the previous month. It's as though they forget the balance each month because it's not worth collecting, then my account runs up another small charge, which they promptly forget. And of course they have yet to terminate the account. I would gladly close it myself, but I'm locked out, and it's not really worth my time to figure it out how to get back in (plus they keep telling me they're going to terminate it, which is exactly what I want them to do!).
- Jonovono 5y ago
  I got this too, and they did eventually terminating my account. I missed all the emails tho, but when I went to use AWS for some project I found out I was terminated and the only way for me to use AWS again was to create a new account (I emailed them, they can't un terminate me)
  - atatatat 5y ago
    Same thing happened here — for $23 instead of .23¢. What a dysfunctional service.

by mrits 5y ago

foolfoolz 5y ago

i have this happening on gcp and aws. i get a text from my credit card each month for like 10-25 cents. i’ve gone in multiple times all the consoles show $0 it’s impossible to track down. it’s so cheap i haven’t cared enough to dig more

bspammer 5y ago
https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/bills?year=2021&month=9 https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/bills?year=202... This page should show you a full breakdown of exactly what’s costing you money across all regions.
MattGaiser 5y ago
Yep. I have some one cent a month bill from GCP from Hackathon days.
- citizenpaul 5y ago
  There is a good chance all of you have a reserved IP address floating around somewhere in the settings. It costs like .05 a month
dilyevsky 5y ago
Both services have billing breakdowns by sku. Are you saying it shows nothing?

Aeolun 5y ago

I found the solution to that problem. I just actually use AWS for some stuff now, and my bill turned into a nice $20 ish dollars :P

mey 5y ago

Have had AWS tell us to chargeback a payment that we couldn't cancel.

jonas21 5y ago

AWS has been billing me a few cents per month for over a decade now. Eventually, the credit card I was using expired, and so every month for the past 7 years, they've sent me an email: > Dear Amazon Web Services Customer, > Your AWS Account is about to be suspended. There is still an outstanding payment problem with your account, as our previous communications did not lead to successful payment of your past due AWS charges. > We were unable to charge your credit card for the amount of $0.26 for your use of AWS services during the month of Aug-2021. We will attempt to collect this amount again. Unless we are successful in collecting the balance of $0.26 in full by 09/30/2021, your Amazon Web Services account may be suspended or terminated. The balance never increases, even though it always says the charges are from the previous month. It's as though they forget the balance each month because it's not worth collecting, then my account runs up another small charge, which they promptly forget. And of course they have yet to terminate the account. I would gladly close it myself, but I'm locked out, and it's not really worth my time to figure it out how to get back in (plus they keep telling me they're going to terminate it, which is exactly what I want them to do!).

Jonovono 5y ago
I got this too, and they did eventually terminating my account. I missed all the emails tho, but when I went to use AWS for some project I found out I was terminated and the only way for me to use AWS again was to create a new account (I emailed them, they can't un terminate me)
- atatatat 5y ago
  Same thing happened here — for $23 instead of .23¢. What a dysfunctional service.