Resolution. When you close your AWS account, you must terminate all your resources or you might continue to incur charges. The on-demand billing for your resources stops on closing your account.
In the navigation pane, choose Clusters and select the name of the cluster in which your service resides. On the Cluster : name page, choose Services. Check the box to the left of the service to update and choose Delete. Confirm the service deletion by entering the text phrase and choose Delete.
You can close your entire account in AWS Billing: https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account
Or if you just want to disable your "Free-Tier" services that has charges, view them here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/freetier
Then open your EC2 dashboard - and cancel those services:
https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2
For example: Stop running instances, delete volumes, remove elastic IPs, etc.
Otherwise, I recommend sending an email to [email protected] from the email you used to signup with their service.
I had an RDS running and I couldn't figure out how to cancel just that service
Here's how to do it:
Go to billing services
https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?region=us-west-2#/
Click "Bill Details"
Inspect it
You'll find NAME OF SERVICE + ITS LOCATION. This is the information you need.
Go to topright of page. Select the correct server location
The rest is straightforward from here
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:
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:
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?
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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