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How Linkage Happens

  1. If you create an AWS account with email address xyz123@cornell.edu, and there is no existing Amazon.com account for xyz123@cornell.edu then functionally, an Amazon.com account is created for xyz123@cornell.edu and those two accounts (AWS and Amazon.com) are linked forever.
  2. If you create an AWS account with email address xyz123@cornell.edu, and there already is an existing Amazon.com account for xyz123@cornell.edu, then the two accounts will be linked forever.

Ramifications

In this situation:

  • If you were to change the root email address for the AWS account, it would also change the email address for the Amazon.com account.
  • If you were to change the email address for the Amazon.com account, it would also change the root email address for the AWS account.
  • AWS/Amazon cannot manually unlink or decouple these accounts.
  • If the Amazon.com account is closed, the AWS account will remain active.
  • If the AWS account is closed, the Amazon.com account remains active.