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That's something I wonder about looking at AWS. My personal account has about $0.7 monthly spend. Doesn't it cost more to charge a credit card?

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A few months ago, I found out I had an AWS account from college that was racking up $0.50/month in charges. After 40 months, I finally got an email from AWS warning me to pay the $20 or they'd just close my account. I paid it, and closed my account, but I guess I could've just left if I wanted to.

I am guessing that 50cents per month is a Route53 hosted zone from one of your experiments with hosting a website?

You may want to check if you also have a domain name purcahed through route53 that is set for automatic renewal every 3 years or whatever

That's a good point, and you're spot-on about the Route53 zone. I did close my AWS account already. I'm hoping it just kind of doesn't renew that domain name.

Good to know. I'm paying anyway because I have other accounts there with bigger charges and I actually want the service, including the small personal account (which really shows as a separate transaction on a bank statement).

Yes. But building an exception into the billing system and possibly accumulating charges below $x over a longer period might just not be worth the effort.

AWS regularly cancels my invoices if they're under 1EUR, I assume precisely because it costs them more to do the transaction.

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