Account Creation
Support Plans
Four different AWS Support plans are:
AWS Basic ( Free )
AWS Developer ( 29 usd / month )
AWS Business ( 100 usd / month )
AWS Enterprise ( 15,000 usd / month )
Billing Alerts
After creating an account, you can use AWS CloudWatch to setup Billing alerts. For example, you can create an alarm to send a email notification when the account charges go past some threshold for a month.
After creating a new account, you need to do following things to secure your AWS account.
Open IAM:
- Delete root account access keys
- Enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Create new IAM users for all users
- Create new IAM groups to group IAM users
- Create IAM password policy.