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Similar happened with me on AWS about 10 years ago - ended up with my account being shut down.

I managed to exceed a free tier and get charged $0.01 USD for S3 storage. They kept trying to take the payment from my card, but my bank couldn't process it as 1c is less than 1 GBP penny.

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Hah I thought I was the only one to manage a <0.01 billing situation. The account did eventually got suspended but I was able to unlock it by logging in and clearing the balance manually (luckily by that point it was a full penny or two)

During this I found out you can link multiple AWS accounts to another for billing purposes, should stop me missing it in future, just in case it helps anyone to know it's possible :)

Did support not help? If the account was critical why not spend $1?

The account wasn't critical, mostly just me learning AWS.

I'm not sure there is / was a way to pay an arbitrary amount - unless you mean just turning on an instance for a while to generate a full $1 of costs in order to be able to make the payment.

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