Sorry, Yes. These account have a canadian billing address. I was made aware of tax-related changes (that AWS would begin charging me the appropriate canadian sales tax) some months ago, but there was absolutely no mention of an upcoming change in currency.

The Canadian sales tax can’t be applied in USD, though. If a country is applying taxes all invoices and taxes will need to be calculated in the currency of the country applying the tax.

Interesting... because DigitalOcean definitely applies canadian sales tax, and charges me in USD.

They may be doing the currency conversion as a "last step" which AWS doesn't want to handle.

Can you get a card on your US source of funds that converts to CAD for you? There may be a currency exchange fee, but some (Amex maybe?) have very good rates.

.. why do you, a Canadian, with a billing address in Canada, want to pay Amazon in USD instead of CAD?

I'd like to save on the currency conversion fees.

I have a number of US clients paying me in USD, so I already have USD accounts to receive and store that income.

It feels a bit wasteful to convert those dollars to CAD (and incur a ~1.5% from my bank), in order to pay an AWS bill that was originally drafted in USD, and then converted to CAD by AWS (with an additional 1.5% fee charged by AWS).

my first question when i read the post