Reputation: 17690

AWS: How to disable all services?

I was dorking around with AWS (and related services), hoping that I could stay in the Free Tier, like I do when I'm exploring Google App Engine.

A few days ago, I get a letter from Amazon that they've charged me $33 or so for my 2 days of exploration.

This has got to end, but I forget what services I've enabled. Ideally, I'd just disable the AWS account entirely, as without a free sandbox there's no way I'm going to be using their service. Is there a global off button, or do I have to stumble around to turn all their services off individually? Or do I have to delete my CC information and just create a new Amazon account altogether?

Upvotes: 181

Answers (7)

Denis Davydov

Reputation: 11

I just cancelled the whole AWS account. They charge money, even during the trial period. I am just tired of tracking and terminating ABC services and resources. I think ABC does this on purpose, and they don't care what users think about them. This looks like a scam.

Upvotes: 0

Ares9323

Reputation: 1044

Today I finally discovered a global view to detect all the active services, you still have to disable every service manually but at least you don't have to switch all the regions to understand where you have active services.

Upvotes: 13

Mohammed Joraid

Reputation: 6480

I know this is a somehow an old question, but I would like to add a new answer because I think AWS has changed a lot since this was asked. I have stumbled on a similar situation as the OP and I found out that there are 3 possible ways to achieve this:

To have a single turn-off-everything button, but I'm not sure if this exists.
Overkill, go through the services and check them one by one and shutdown/delete any instances or running services.
To find out the actual source of leaking (cost occurring services) by viewing what is posting charges on your account and then turn off these services one by one. This can be done by visiting:

your AWS account >> My Billing Dashboard

Find your account username and open the drop down menu:

You can check what services are incurring fees.

Percentage table:

I followed the services by searching for their name on AWS console, if I couldn't find it I'd Google how to do so and then turned them off one by one.

In my case, there was no charge towards my bank even thought billing showed I have some balance, I think it's because I was using the free tier, maybe?

Upvotes: 13

nosbor

Reputation: 3009

I was also frustrated (by being charged on the free tier without any info/warning in prior) and found a simple and elegant solution to turn off all AWS services. You delete your account and forget about these fraudulent (to be honest) AWS services.

Here is the link:

https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account

Here is the section:

Upvotes: 32

RiCHiE

Reputation: 288

I just hit my free tier limit. I terminated my ec2 instance, deleted my storage volume and even removed my security group and key pair so I have nothing now. Hopefully no charge :P

Always make sure you select the right region. I once had 2 instances running and didnt realize it.

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