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I got an invoice for AWS from CloudCheckr. What should I do with it?
We use CloudCheckr to send informational invoice for each AWS account on the 15th of each month. Those invoices cover the prior calendar month. You do not need to do anything with those invoices.
On or about the 17th of each month, a KFS transaction is automatically created that charges the designated default KFS account for the charges in your AWS account. Please contact cloud-support@cornell.edu if you need to change the KFS account used by default for your AWS account charges. If you'd like to target the charges for specific AWS resources to specific KFS accounts, you can "Cost Center" tags to your AWS resources. See AWS Standard Tagging for details.
How come my AWS bill contains charges for EC2 when I haven't used EC2 at all?
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When will direct billing (though KFS) based on "Cost Center" tags be released?
This is still a work in progress and we expect to release this Cornell KFS feature in Spring 2018. In the meantime, you should strive to add Direct billing from AWS to KFS is now enabled. We have a default KFS account to bill for charges in each AWS account. If you'd like to target the charges for specific AWS resources to specific KFS accounts, you can "Cost Center" tags to your AWS resources as soon as possible. See AWS Standard Tagging for details.Until direct billing is turned on, you can use the CloudCheckr website or API to sub-total the resource costs in your account (based on tag) and re-allocate those costs with the help of your unit Business Service Center.
When I purchase a reserved EC2 instance with upfront payment, how is billing handled for that?
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