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Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by w-ll on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:09PM (#9939297)
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.

Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:13PM (#9939311)
Have you tried changing regions in the console?
Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by thoman23 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:34PM (#9939382)
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.
Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by res0nat0r on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:44PM (#9939423)
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
Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by click170 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:13PM (#9939312)
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.

Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by cryowaffle on Thursday July 23, 2015 @10:39PM (#9939845)
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.
Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by egwor on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:09AM (#9940675)
I guess not needing an id just makes it easier. It's always a pain having to provide two forms of proof of address