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I think you'd remember when you get the bill.

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There's a lot of people to control instances who never see a bill. That's a different department :D

This is the #1 benefit of B2B vs B2C. It's someone else's money.

See: the entire rental car industry.

Except you don't get a bill, you get a receipt that gets buried in tons of junk mail.

And as I reply to this, I decided to check my AWS console, because there is an instance for the life of me I can't terminate.

Have you tried changing regions in the console?

Agreed on this advice. When I was new to AWS I kept receiving a bill for a few cents that obviously wasn't worth my time to resolve, but still really irritated my why I couldn't find a running instance. Turns out the running instance was in a different region and I didn't know the EC2 server list displayed only one region at a time.

If you have the aws cli tool installed this will list all of your instances and their public IP addresses in all regions for you:

    for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions | awk '{print $NF}'`; do echo $region; aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[[Tags[?Key==`Name`]| [0].Value], PublicIpAddress]'; echo ; done

This is the exact reason why I refuse to give amazon a non-prepaid visa card.

Where I live, every grocery store sells them without requiring ID.

Are you trying to protect your identity or just make sure the bill doesn't go over a set amount? If the latter then it shouldn't matter if ID is required.

I guess not needing an id just makes it easier. It's always a pain having to provide two forms of proof of address

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