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AWS BILLING


USER GUIDE

 * What is AWS Billing and Cost Management?
 * Getting started with an AWS account
 * Using the AWS Billing and Cost Management home page
    * Understanding the differences between AWS Billing data and AWS Cost
      Explorer data

 * Managing your account
    * Managing an AWS account
    * Managing an account in India
    * Finding the seller of record

 * Monthly billing checklist
 * Getting help
 * View your bill
    * Understanding unexpected charges

 * Using the Billing preferences page
 * Manage payments
    * Make payments, check funds, and view payment history
    * Manage credit card payment verification
    * Manage credit card and ACH payment methods
    * Manage Advance Pay
    * Manage AWS payments in CNY
    * Manage PIX payment method in Brazil
    * Manage payments in India
    * Manage payments in AWS Europe
       * Manage AWS Europe payment methods
       * Make payments, check funds, and view payment history in AWS Europe
       * Manage AWS Europe credit card payment methods
       * Manage AWS Europe credit card payment verifications
       * Manage SEPA direct debit payment method
   
    * Manage payment profiles
    * Manage your AWS payment preferences

 * Viewing your customer carbon footprint tool
    * Understanding your customer carbon footprint tool overview
    * Understanding your carbon emission estimations

 * Managing your purchase orders
    * Setting up purchase order configurations
    * Adding a purchase order
    * Editing your purchase orders
    * Deleting your purchase orders
    * Viewing your purchase orders
    * Reading your purchase order details page
    * Enabling purchase order notifications
    * Use tags to manage access to purchase orders

 * Managing your costs with AWS Cost Categories
    * Creating cost categories
    * Tagging cost categories
    * Viewing cost categories
    * Editing cost categories
    * Deleting cost categories
    * Splitting charges within cost categories

 * Using AWS cost allocation tags
    * AWS generated cost allocation tags
       * Activating the AWS generated cost allocation tags
       * Deactivating the AWS generated cost allocation tags
       * Restrictions on AWS generated cost allocation tags
   
    * User-defined cost allocation tags
       * Activating user-defined cost allocation tags
       * User-defined tag restrictions
   
    * Monthly cost allocation report
    * Understanding dates for cost allocation tags

 * Using the AWS Free Tier
    * Eligibility
    * Avoid unexpected charges
    * Track your usage
    * Using the Free Tier API

 * What is AWS Price List?
    * Use the AWS Price List Query API
       * Find services and products
          * Step 1: Find available services
          * Step 2: Find available values for attributes
          * Step 3: Find products from attributes
   
    * Use the AWS Price List Bulk API
       * Get price list files
          * Step 1: Find available AWS services
          * Step 2: Find price list files for an available AWS service
          * Step 3: Get a specific price list file
      
       * Get price list files manually
          * Step 1: Find available AWS services
          * Step 2: Find available versions for an AWS service
          * Step 3: Find available AWS Regions for a version of a service
          * Step 4: Find available price lists for a Region and version of an
            AWS service
      
       * Read the price list files
          * Read the service index file
          * Read the service version index file
             * Service version index file for an AWS service
             * Service version index file for Savings Plan
         
          * Read the service Region index file
             * Service Region index file for AWS services
             * Service Region index file for Savings Plan
         
          * Read the service price list files
             * Read the service price list file for an AWS service
             * Read the service price list file for a Savings Plan
      
       * Find prices in the service price list file
   
    * Set up price update notifications

 * Consolidated billing for AWS Organizations
    * Consolidated billing process
    * Consolidated billing in AWS EMEA
    * Consolidated billing in India
    * Effective billing date, account activity, and volume discounts
    * Credits
    * Reserved Instances
       * Billing examples for specific services
       * Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing
   
    * Understanding Consolidated Bills
    * Requesting shorter PDF invoices
    * Organization support charges

 * Security
    * Data protection
    * Identity and Access Management
       * Overview of managing access
       * How AWS Billing works with IAM
       * Identity-based policy with Billing
       * AWS Billing policy examples
       * Migrating access control
          * How to use the affected policies tool
          * Use scripts to bulk migrate your policies to use fine-grained IAM
            actions
          * Mapping fine-grained IAM actions reference
      
       * AWS managed policies
       * Troubleshooting
   
    * Logging and monitoring
       * Logging API calls with CloudTrail
   
    * Compliance validation
    * Resilience
    * Infrastructure security

 * Quotas and restrictions
 * Document history
 * AWS Glossary

Managing an AWS account - AWS Billing
AWSDocumentationAWS Billing and Cost ManagementUser Guide
Editing your account name, AWS account root user password, and AWS account root
user email addressEditing contact informationAdding or updating alternate
contactsAdding or editing security challenge questionsEnabling and disabling AWS
RegionsActivating IAM access to the AWS Billing and Cost Management
consoleManage account contract informationUpdating and deleting tax registration
numbersTurning on tax setting inheritanceManaging your US tax exemptionsClosing
your AWS account


MANAGING AN AWS ACCOUNT

PDFRSS

You can use the AWS Billing and Cost Management console to change the following
account settings:

 * Contact and alternate contact information

 * Currency that you pay your bills in

 * AWS Regions that you can create resources in

 * Tax registration numbers

TO SIGN IN TO THE ACCOUNT PAGE

Choose one of the following options:

 * Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
   https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 * Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and on the top right-corner, choose
   your account name, and then choose Account.

NOTES:

 * Only the AWS account root user can edit some sections on the Account page. If
   you don't see the Edit option, switch to the root user.

 * For AWS accounts with a billing address in India, see Managing an account in
   India.

CONTENTS

 * Editing your account name, AWS account root user password, and AWS account
   root user email address
 * Editing contact information
 * Adding or updating alternate contacts
   * Examples for alternate contacts
 * Adding or editing security challenge questions
 * Enabling and disabling AWS Regions
 * Activating IAM access to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console
 * Manage account contract information
 * Updating and deleting tax registration numbers
 * Turning on tax setting inheritance
 * Managing your US tax exemptions
 * Closing your AWS account


EDITING YOUR ACCOUNT NAME, AWS ACCOUNT ROOT USER PASSWORD, AND AWS ACCOUNT ROOT
USER EMAIL ADDRESS


You can use the Account page to edit your account name, AWS account root user
password, or email address. Email in this case refers to the root user email
address. This is the email address that you use to sign in to your account.

NOTE

To perform the following procedure, you must sign in as the root user. The root
user doesn't need additional AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
permissions. You can't complete this procedure with an IAM role.

TO EDIT YOUR ACCOUNT NAME, AWS ACCOUNT ROOT USER PASSWORD, OR AWS ACCOUNT ROOT
USER EMAIL ADDRESS

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account as the root user.

 2. On the Account page, next to Account settings, choose Edit.

 3. Enter your updated information and then choose Update.


EDITING CONTACT INFORMATION


You can change the contact information associated with your account, including
your mailing address, telephone number, and website address.

TO EDIT YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 2. Under Contact information, choose Edit.

 3. Enter your updated information and then choose Update.

NOTES

 * Your phone number must include the country code and can only contain the
   following characters: 0-9, +, – (hyphen). For example, +1 202-555-0179.

 * You can add an email address for billing in the Alternate contacts section to
   have AWS send a copy of billing-related emails to that email address. For
   example, AWS sends your Billing contact address an email message when your
   monthly bill is ready.


ADDING OR UPDATING ALTERNATE CONTACTS


Alternate contacts allows AWS to contact another person about issues with your
account, even if you're unavailable. The alternate contact doesn't have to be a
specific person. You could instead add an email distribution list if you have a
team that manages billing, operations and security related issues.

TO ADD OR UPDATE ALTERNATE CONTACTS

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 2. Under Alternate contacts, choose Edit.

 3. Enter your updated information and choose Update.


EXAMPLES FOR ALTERNATE CONTACTS

AWS will reach out to each contact type in the following scenarios:

 * Billing – When your monthly invoice is available, or your payment method
   needs to be updated. If you enabled Receive PDF Invoice By Email in your
   Billing preferences, your alternate billing contact also receives the PDF
   invoices. Notifications can be from AWS Support, or other AWS service teams.

 * Operations – When your service is, or will be, temporarily unavailable in one
   of more AWS Regions. Your contacts will also receive any notification related
   to operations. Notifications can be from AWS Support, or other AWS service
   teams

 * Security – When you have notifications from the AWS Security, AWS Trust and
   Safety, or AWS service teams. These notifications might include security
   issues or potential abusive or fraudulent activities on your AWS account.
   Notifications can be from AWS Support, or other AWS service teams concerning
   security related topics associated with your AWS account usage. Don't include
   sensitive information in the subject line or full name fields since this
   might be used in email communications to you.


ADDING OR EDITING SECURITY CHALLENGE QUESTIONS


You can add another layer of authentication by adding security challenge
questions and their answers to your AWS account. When you contact AWS Support,
AWS uses this information to help authenticate you as the owner of your account.

TO ADD OR EDIT SECURITY CHALLENGE QUESTIONS

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 2. Under Security challenge questions, choose Edit.

 3. Change the values in any of the available fields. You can select any of the
    provided questions, and then enter the appropriate answer.

 4. Enter your updated information and choose Update.


ENABLING AND DISABLING AWS REGIONS


Before this feature was available, AWS originally enabled all new Regions by
default, which allowed your users to create resources in any Region. Now when
AWS adds a Region, the new Region is disabled by default. You can enable a
Region so that your users can create resources in that new Region.

Note the following about enabling and disabling Regions:

You can use IAM permissions to control access to Regions

IAM includes permissions that you can use to control which users can enable,
disable, and list Regions.

For more information, see the following topics:

 * AWS Billing actions

 * AWS: Allows enabling and disabling AWS Regions in the IAM User Guide

 * Managing AWS Regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference



Enabling a Region is free

There's no charge to enable a Region. You're only charged for resources that you
create in the Region.

Disabling a Region removes access to resources in that Region

If you disable a Region that still includes AWS resources, such as Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, you can't access the resources in
that Region. For example, you can't use the AWS Management Console or any
programmatic method to view or change the configuration of any EC2 instances in
that Region.

Charges continue if you disable a Region

If you disable a Region that still includes AWS resources, charges for those
resources (if any) continue to accrue at the standard rate.

For example, if you disable a Region that contains Amazon EC2 instances, you
still have to pay the charges for those instances even though the instances are
inaccessible.

Disabling a Region isn't always immediately visible

If you disable a Region, the change takes time to become visible in all possible
endpoints. Disabling a Region can take between a few seconds to minutes to take
effect.

Existing Regions are enabled by default

The original Regions (the Regions that existed before we added the ability to
enable and disable Regions) are all enabled by default and can't be disabled.

Enabling a Region takes a few minutes for most accounts

Enabling a Region generally takes effect in minutes. However, it can take longer
for some accounts. If enabling a Region takes longer than nine hours, sign in to
the AWS Support Center Console and create a case with AWS Support.

Follow either procedure to enable or disable a Region:

TO ENABLE OR DISABLE A REGION

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 2. To enable a Region:
    
    1. Under AWS Regions, select the Region, and then choose Enable.
    
    2. In the dialog box, choose Enable Region.

 3. To disable a Region:
    
    1. Under AWS Regions, select the Region, and then choose Disable.
    
    2. In the dialog box, for Disable RegionName, enter disable, and then choose
       Disable Region.


ACTIVATING IAM ACCESS TO THE AWS BILLING AND COST MANAGEMENT CONSOLE


By default, IAM roles within an AWS account can't access the Billing and Cost
Management console. This is true even if the IAM user or role has IAM policies
that grant access to specific Billing features. The root user can allow IAM
users and roles access to Billing and Cost Management console by using the
Activate IAM access setting.

For more information about this feature, see Activating access to the Billing
and Cost Management console.

TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE BILLING AND COST MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 2. Under IAM user and role access to Billing information, choose Edit.

 3. Select Activate IAM access.

 4. Choose Update.


MANAGE ACCOUNT CONTRACT INFORMATION


If this account is used to service public sector customers, enter the contract
details in this section.

TO MANAGE THE CONTRACT INFORMATION

 1. Sign in to the Account page in the Billing and Cost Management console at
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account.

 2. Under Account Contract Information, choose Edit.

 3. Enter your updated information and choose Update.


UPDATING AND DELETING TAX REGISTRATION NUMBERS


Use the following steps to update or delete one or more tax registration
numbers.

NOTE

If a country isn't listed in the Tax settings page dropdown, AWS doesn't collect
tax registration for that country at this time.

TO UPDATE TAX REGISTRATION NUMBERS

 1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost
    Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

 2. In the navigation pane, choose Tax settings.

 3. Under Tax registrations, select the numbers to edit.

 4. For Manage tax registration, choose Edit.

 5. Enter your updated information and choose Update.

You can remove one or more tax registration numbers.

TO DELETE TAX REGISTRATION NUMBERS

 1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost
    Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

 2. In the navigation pane, choose Tax settings.

 3. Under Tax Registrations, select the tax registration numbers to delete.

 4. For Manage tax registration, choose Delete TRN.

 5. In the Delete tax registration dialog box, choose Delete.


TURNING ON TAX SETTING INHERITANCE


You can use your tax registration information with your member accounts by
turning on your Tax settings inheritance. After you activate it, your tax
registration information is added to your other AWS Organizations accounts,
saving you the effort of registering redundant information. Tax invoices are
processed with the consistent tax information, and your usage from member
accounts will consolidate to a single tax invoice.

NOTES

 * Tax inheritance settings are only available to accounts after a member
   account is added.

 * If you turn off tax inheritance, the member accounts revert to the account's
   original TRN setting. If there was no TRN originally set for the account, no
   TRN will be assigned.

Tax registration information includes:

 * Business legal name

 * Tax address

 * Tax registration number

 * Special exemptions (does not apply for US sales tax exemptions)

TO TURN ON TAX SETTING INHERITANCE

 1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost
    Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

 2. In the navigation pane, choose Tax settings.

 3. Under Tax registrations, select Enable tax settings inheritance.

 4. In the dialog box, choose Enable.


MANAGING YOUR US TAX EXEMPTIONS


If your state is eligible, you can manage your US tax exemptions on the Tax
settings page. The documents you upload for the exemption are reviewed by AWS
Support within 24 hours.

NOTE

You must have IAM permissions to view the Tax exemptions tab on the Tax settings
page in the Billing and Cost Management console.

For an example IAM policy, see Allow IAM users to view US tax exemptions and
create AWS Support cases.

TO UPLOAD OR ADD YOUR US TAX EXEMPTION

 1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost
    Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

 2. In the navigation pane, choose Tax settings.

 3. Choose Tax exemptions.

 4. Choose all of the accounts to add the tax exemption. Choose Manage tax
    exemption and select Add tax exemption.
    
    1. If you're logged in as a linked account, you can add tax exemptions to
       only the linked account.
    
    2. If you're logged in as a payer account, you can add tax exemptions to
       both payer and linked accounts.

 5. Specify your exemption type and jurisdiction.

 6. Upload certificate documents.

 7. Review your information, and choose Submit.

Within 24 hours, AWS Support will notify you through a support case if they need
additional information, or if any of your documents weren't valid.

Once the exemption is approved, you can view it under the Tax exemption tab with
an Active validity period.

You will be notified through a support case contact if your exemption was
rejected.


CLOSING YOUR AWS ACCOUNT


For more information about closing your AWS account, see Close your account in
the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.

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 * Adding or updating alternate contacts
 * Adding or editing security challenge questions
 * Enabling and disabling AWS Regions
 * Activating IAM access to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console
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 * Updating and deleting tax registration numbers
 * Turning on tax setting inheritance
 * Managing your US tax exemptions
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