Customizing your Billing preferences
You can use the Amazon Billing preferences page to manage your invoice delivery, alerts, credit sharing, Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans discount sharing, and detailed billing (legacy) reports. For some sections, only the payer account can update them.
The Billing preferences page contains the following sections.
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Invoice delivery preferences
You can choose to receive a PDF copy of your monthly invoice by email. The monthly invoices are sent to the emails registered as the Amazon Web Services account root user and the alternate billing contact. For information about updating these email addresses, see Setting up your tax information.
To opt in or out of receiving monthly PDF invoices by email
Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/
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In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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In the Invoice delivery preferences section, choose Edit.
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Select or clear PDF invoices delivery by email.
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Choose Update.
Depending on the purchase, Amazon sends monthly or daily invoices to the following contacts:
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The Amazon Web Services account root user
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The billing contacts on the Payment preferences page
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The alternate billing contacts on the Account page
Additional invoice email
In addition to the PDF invoice email, Amazon sends monthly or daily email with your invoice details to the contact list in the previous section.
Note
If you specify a billing contact on the Payment preferences page, the root user won't receive the PDF invoice or the additional invoice by email.
Alert preferences
You can receive email alerts when your Amazon Web Services service usage is approaching or has exceeded the Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier usage limits.
To opt in or out of receiving Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier usage alerts
Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/
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In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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In the Alert preferences section, choose Edit.
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Select or clear Receive Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier usage alerts.
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(Optional) In the Additional email address to receive alerts, enter any email addresses that aren't already registered as a root user or alternate billing contact.
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Choose Update.
You can also use Amazon CloudWatch billing alerts to receive email notifications when your charges reach a specified threshold.
To receive CloudWatch billing alerts
Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/
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In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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In the Alert preferences section, choose Edit.
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Select Receive CloudWatch billing alerts.
Important
This preference can't be deactivated at a later time.
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Choose Update.
To manage your CloudWatch billing alerts, see your CloudWatch dashboard
Credit sharing preferences
You can use this section to activate sharing credits across member accounts in your billing family. You can select specific accounts or enable sharing for all accounts.
Note
This section is only available for the management account (payer account) as part of Amazon Organizations.
To manage credit sharing for member accounts
Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/
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In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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In the Credit sharing preferences section, choose Edit.
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To activate or deactivate credit sharing for specific accounts, select them from the table and, then choose Activate or Deactivate.
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To activate or deactivate credit sharing for all accounts, choose Actions, and then choose Activate All or Deactivate All.
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Choose Update.
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To activate credit sharing for new accounts that join your organization, select Default sharing for newly created member accounts.
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To download a history of your credit sharing preferences, choose Download preference history (CSV).
For more information about Amazon credits, see Applying Amazon credits.
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing preferences
You can use this section to activate sharing Reserved Instances and Savings Plan discounts across accounts in your billing family. You can select specific accounts or enable sharing for all accounts.
Note
This section is only available for the management account (payer account) as part of Amazon Organizations.
To manage Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing for member accounts
Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/
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In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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In the Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing preference section, choose Edit.
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To activate or deactivate discount sharing for specific accounts, select them from the table, and then choose Activate or Deactivate.
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To activate or deactivate discount sharing for all accounts, choose Actions, and then choose Activate All or Deactivate All.
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Choose Update.
Tip
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To activate credit sharing for new accounts that join your organization, select Default sharing for newly created member accounts.
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To download a history of your credit sharing preferences, choose Download preference history (CSV).
Detailed billing reports (legacy)
You can receive legacy billing reports that are offered outside of the Amazon Cost and Usage Reports console page. However, we strongly recommend that you use Amazon Cost and Usage Reports instead because it provides the most comprehensive billing information. Also, these legacy reporting methods will not be supported at a later date.
For more information about detailed billing reports, see Detailed Billing Reports in the Amazon Cost and Usage Reports User Guide.
For more information about transferring your reports to Amazon Cost and Usage Reports, see Migrating from Detailed Billing Reports to Amazon Cost and Usage Reports.
Notes
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This section is only visible if you use Amazon Organizations.
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To download a CSV from the Bills page, first activate monthly reports.
To edit your detailed billing reports (legacy) settings
Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/
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In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.
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In the Detailed billing reports (legacy) section, choose Edit.
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To set the Amazon S3 bucket for report delivery, select Legacy report delivery to Amazon S3 and Configure.
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In the Configure Amazon S3 Bucket section, select an existing Amazon S3 bucket to receive the Amazon Cost and Usage Reports, or create a new bucket.
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Choose Update.
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To configure the granularity of the reports to show your Amazon usage, select the reports to activate.
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In the Report activation section, choose Activate.