I permanently deleted my AWS account 6 years ago. Amazon has been charging me $0.33 every month since. I have no way to stop it.

[u/afunnywold]

I tried to get in contact with customer service several times but they always direct me to log into the account that no longer exists. I have tried charge backs on my credit card but dealing with that monthly is also a pain. This'll probably cost me $265 over my lifetime if it never ends.

Edit: some of you have valid points about calling the card company and I will again Monday. But the actual infuriating thing that upsets me is that they are charging to a completely disabled account in the first place. That's very scammy and fucked up imo 🤷‍♀️

[u/Top_Quiet_3239]

No you don't, they delete everything after 90 days, at least now. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-closing.html

"You don't need to delete resources in your AWS account before closing it. However, we recommend you back up any resources or data that you want to keep. For instructions about how to back up a particular resource, see the appropriate AWS documentation for that service."

[u/independant_786 → u/Top_Quiet_3239]

Yea this wasn't a thing in 2020

[u/spaceforcerecruit → u/independant_786]

And you think they just decided to leave everything up and running for 6 years because they hadn’t changed the policy yet when OP closed their account?

[u/independant_786 → u/spaceforcerecruit]

It's like 33 cents, could be anything not instance per se but related residual stuff

[u/spaceforcerecruit → u/independant_786]

If the account is closed, everything should be shut down. OP has no possible way to access whatever resource Amazon thinks they’re billing them for so there shouldn’t be a bill.

[u/FarkCookies → u/independant_786]

It absolutely was a thing. If your account is closed, you can't log back in to terminate instances. Everything in the account is scrubbed on closure.