AWS just sent me an email threatening to terminate my account because I have a $0.18 pending bill. Wow Amazon! Just wow! How many years does it take you to make $0.18? 5? 10?

You would have thought that they have some kind of threshold set in their automated management.

if(amountOutstanding>barelyFuckAll){throwHissyFit();}

Well, if you owe it and haven't paid it yet then it's their right to send an email like this, right?

The hole thing is probably automated down to the termination. If they had real people doing that shit then they would not care, but since not, it doesnt waste their time. It does probably however cost more money in electricity for those servers running the automation than the amount they get out of small outstanding debts

@CodesNotHot set up a gofundme page and post the link. I'll chip in a couple of cents and I'm sure the rest of the devRant community will rally. Between us we'll get you the money to keep Bezos off your back.

Buddy. Think about it that way: If they shouldn't care about 18ct for you, who decides if they care about 18ct for the next person.
They should take 18ct off everyone, right? That would be fair. So now let's say its 18ct for 100k accounts? Whops, 18k gone. Now apply that to the real amount of users and you'll see where this is going
There were / are companies making millions because they round some price up in their favor, making 1ct extra every other sale, effectively overcharging the customer..

@Kimmax it's not about forgiving the 18 cents. Amazon could just let it build up to a threshold, say $5 or $10 before threatening to suspend an account. No one is expecting them to not charge him, but there's something called customer relationship.

@lucaspar well if their policy says it's monthly billed, no matter how much, that's what they should roll with.
Sure, you could wait till it sums up, but you would still need to set an limit, say 2 or 3 months. Who says that the customer ever comes back after that

@Condor as far as I know in aws you're billed monthly after you use the resources. You don't need to buy credits beforehand.

Amazon has threatened to terminate my normal Amazon account because my bank account was not available for a day. It's not my fault Amazon, but guess you just want to look at my sweet cash (which I don't even own, because I'm poor). Terminated my account myself and after that they begged me to come back, but I'm done with Amazon.

I owned then like 3 euro because nobody earthen of the ending time of the free year, just terminated my own account because I have 0 shits and want even using them anymore

@linuxxx @Kimmax I use AWS as my primary cloud but recently I have started to migrate to Google Cloud. I know in am supposed to pay them but come on, they should have a reasonable threshold like Google Cloud. And they should not be terminating accounts. They should just suspend the services that require billing like EC2 or Sagemaker which i use. That's how Google cloud does it and i find it really reponsible.
Let me give an example:
I am using Google maps in my mobile apps. But google maps api doesn't require billing. In the same project I have a few Compute Instances with postgresql that require billing. Terminating the whole project would even affect my apps that don't require Compute but only maps.