Re:AWS doesn’t know who I am
by solatic on Sunday August 22, 2021 @06:36AM
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You can change an AWS account's root account's email address. Even if you don't want to set up a new email account just for your AWS root account, many email providers include additional forwarding addresses as a feature, or use something like the Gmail feature where `[email protected]` gets sent to [email protected]`; from AWS's perspective these are completely different email addresses even if Gmail treats them as the same Gmail account.
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Nope. For accounts created before 2017, if you change the root account's email address it changes the Amazon.com retail account's email address as well. This is documented behavior by AWS[0]:
> If your AWS account and Amazon.com retail account share the same login information, updating the email address or password on one of the accounts changes information on the other account.
[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/trans...
I'm using the same method. But only went down this like the grandfather comment where I'd already been bitten by having the same email as [email protected] for both AWS and Amazon. Fortunately creating aliases in Fastmail is very trivial.