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Orphaned AWS account. How to stop billing?
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I've used AWS for static site hosting using S3 back until 2019 or 2020. I had closed my Amazon.com account back then which inadvertently orphaned my AWS account. Since then I've moved my static site to Cloudflare but unable to stop AWS service.

I keep receiving AWS bills since then despite several failed attempts to cancel AWS service. I'm blocking the charges to my CC as last option though the monthly service charges are minimal. Can anyone help me reach relevant technical team? Attaching some of my communications with AWS support which never helped.

Update: I've read in some other posts that deleted accounts cannot be retrieved. How do I stop billing for such an account?

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I went through something similar a few years ago. Well, still going through it as I pay about $1 a month for it for about 3 years now.

Basically it was an AWS Educate account that I had for school. I thought that those accounts would get aged off as they are a form of temporary account, but I kept getting billed. I lost access to my student email as they told me that I had to have access to that email to do anything with the account. I explained it to them, and they could obviously see that it was a student account…but still no solution. I haven’t looked into it in a couple years, maybe they’ve introduced some workaround by now or something

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