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If the same email address has been used as the root email address for a new AWS and for interacting with Amazon.com, those two accounts are inextricably linked forever. (sad)

Example

If you have an Amazon.com shopping account with email address xyz123@cornell.edu, and create an AWS account with that same email address (xyz123@cornell.edu), the Amazon.com account and the AWS account become 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 get closed.

 

 

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