Order Amazon Web Services subscription

For the general description of the procedure, see Buy subscription in the Customer Control Panel guide.

In this article:

Specifics and limitations

  • Amazon Web Services has only one period — the endless.
  • Changing resources of an Amazon Web Services subscription is not available since all information about its resources is stored on the service side.
  • A subscription is free, and you only pay for the consumed resources (pay-as-you-go).
  • A subscription in the platform corresponds in AWS to the fact that your account belongs to the reseller organization. If you do not have an AWS account, creating a subscription in the platform involves creating an account directly within the reseller organization. If you already have an AWS account, creating a subscription in the platform involves inviting the account to join the reseller organization. You have 15 days to accept the invitation, otherwise, a subscription fails. To send an invitation, your account root user email is required. Invitations sent to other account users in AWS are not eligible to join a reseller organization. AWS does not validate the email to which the notification is sent.

  • When a subscription is created, you receive 2 messages:

    1. To the specified email:
      1. For a new AWS account — an instruction from AWS.
      2. For an existing AWS account — an invitation to join the reseller organization.
    2. To the Owner email — the subscription activation instruction from your reseller (see also Activate Amazon Web Services subscription).

Additional information

Ordering an Amazon Web Services subscription includes one additional step.

On the Additional information step:

  • If you do not have an AWS account:
    1. Make sure that in the Choose an AWS account group, the Create a new AWS account option is selected.
    2. In the AWS account email field, enter an email for the root user of the account in AWS. You can add other users later after activating a subscription.
  • If you already have an AWS account:
    1. In the Choose an AWS account group, select Use an existing AWS account.
    2. In the AWS account email field, enter the email of the root user of your AWS account.