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I cancelled an account 2 years ago because no matter how much I explored cost manager or any regions I used, I can't find why I still get billed a small dollar or so a month.

I still get bills on the 3rd of each month, followed by a "we can't charge your card" (I removed it when they pulled this shit) followed by a few days later you get the "hey we're gonna suspend your account if you don't pay"

Yeah cool, I only closed the account 2 years ago now, go right ahead and suspend/close/do whatever you've gotta do, I stopped caring.




The cost explorer is beyond deplorable. It provides either too little information or information that is so fine-grained it becomes useless.

It infuriates me the hoops we need to jump through just to understand how much a single virtual machine costs. Or in cases like yours - to find out what resource a charge was for. Impossible.

Designed to be impossible. FFS. We would spend more money if we were able to manage costs better.


Same! I literally closed an account and created a new one after a few months because I was charged a few bucks a month and I didn't know what I was paying for.

I think it was either related to db backup or some encryption keys but I couldnt find what and where to delete to get rid of this charge.

Nowadays I use aws only for route53 and s3.


Same here. I had a monthly billing of a few dollars and couldn't figure out where it's coming from (and given that it's only a few dollars, it wouldn't make sense to spend many hours investigating). In the end I just canceled the card and hoped for the best.


Came in to say I had to do the same thing, close i.e an account to stop being charged.




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