Withdrawing transfers - Amazon Billing
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Withdrawing transfers

When you sign in to your organization's management account, you can withdraw a transfer at any time. The transfer continues until the end date.

Consolidated bills for charges accrued before the end date are managed and paid for by the bill-transfer account. After the transfer ends, all consolidated bills for charges accrued thereafter are managed and paid for by the organization's own management account (bill-source account).

Considerations

Withdrawal can be done by either account in a transfer

Either account involved in a transfer can withdraw the transfer at any time.

Withdrawal cannot be undone

If a transfer is withdrawn, the account that was managing and paying for another organization's consolidated bill must send a new invitation to that organization to start again.

Transfers end at the end of the month

If a transfer is withdrawn, the end date is 23:59:59 UTC on the last day of the month specified in the withdrawal. Note, this is 6:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on the evening before the last day of the month.

Withdraw a transfer

Terms and concepts

The following are terms and concepts used in the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console:

  • Inbound billing: Billing transfers that allow you to manage and pay for another organization’s consolidated bill.

  • Outbound billing: Billing transfers that allow an account outside your organization to manage and pay your consolidated bill.

Minimum permissions

To withdraw a transfer, you must have the following permissions:

  • organizations:ListInboundResponsibilityTransfers

  • organizations:ListOutboundResponsibilityTransfers

  • organizations:TerminateResponsibilityTransfer

To withdraw a transfer, complete the following steps.

To withdraw a transfer

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/.

  2. On the left navigation in Preferences and Settings, choose Billing transfers.

  3. For inbound billings:

    1. On the Billing transfers page, select the Inbound billing tab.

    2. On the Inbound billing tab, select the transfer you want to withdraw from.

    3. Choose the Actions dropdown menu, and then chose Withdraw transfer.

    4. On the confirmation dialogue box, select the month you want to end the transfer and choose Withdraw transfer.

  4. For outbound billings:

    1. On the Billing transfers page, select the Outbound billing tab.

    2. On the Outbound billing tab, choose Withdraw transfer.

    3. On the confirmation dialogue box, select the month you want to end the transfer and choose Withdraw transfer.

To withdraw a transfer

You can use one of the following operations:
Note

When a transfer is withdrawn, the bill transfer account continues to access billing transfer views associated with the withdrawn transfers. This allows auditing of historical cost and usage data.

When you withdraw from billing transfer as a bill source account, you receive Amazon invoices for charges that occur after the withdrawal. You view cost and usage data as computed by Amazon from the standard billable domain instead of rates set by the bill transfer account. During this transition, you lose access to historical data in Cost Explorer (data remains but becomes inaccessible). The transition also marks your Amazon Cost and Usage Report preferences as unhealthy. You must reconfigure your Amazon Cost and Usage Report preferences for your files to correctly show your billable cost and usage data. For more information, see Controlling cost management data access with Billing View and Amazon Cost and Usage Report.