How can you even get started with AWS without entering payment details? I would love to use AWS for personal projects if I could guarantee it will just stop service outright I stead of charging me.

I've done contract work for a couple of large enterprises. It's amazing how many AWS accounts are just floating around out there on a corp credit card that no one knows who added it and when it's going to expire.

Sounds like you don’t have billing credentials for your iams user.

Hey, is the AWS account you are using inside an organization? If it's then all the billing information should go into the management account. Hope this is the issue and I could help you.

Exactly this.

Here's how this is playing out.

* We need a way to serve image files.

* I create an organization account, add an S3 bucket.

* We serve images as our application grows.

* Fast forward a few months, get an email saying, we're at 85% of free-tier limit.

* I invite my boss to the Organization, and make her the financial contact.

* Neither I, nor my boss, have been able to figure out where, or how, to enter a credit card number.

* We continue to get monthly 85% limit emails. Following the link in the email leads nowhere where we could enter the payment info.

* What a completely insane and stupidly opaque UI. Take our money! How?

* Will probably move to a service that's better organized. We're just serving image files, a few hundred per day.

We have both tried and are unable to figure out how to tie payment info to our AWS organization.

Are you logging in with an Administrator credentialed account _in_ the Organization master account?

Did you give your boss a Billing role in IAM, within the Organization master account?

If so, search for the “Billing” service and Payment Methods will be on the side.

If in doubt, use the root account, but do so only sparingly. You can use it to debug admin and billing permissions.

I also used an S3 bucket for static files. The setup was way more complicated than I expected, and figuring out how to get usage statistics and understanding the cost structure even more so. In the end I moved from S3 to a CDN, super simple to set up and costs went down from 200 USD per month to 5 USD per month. I hope I'll never have to deal with AWS again.

which CDN are you using?

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Ah I see you haven’t spent countless hours looking at the management console cost breakdown because management says “our cloud spending is too high”, to then read the highest cost is your “cost savings plan”.