Purchase AWS Credits

Question

The company I work for is offering to purchase AWS credits for my personal AWS account for professional development and learning opportunities. I have to use the funds by the end of the year. Is there a way I can pre-purchase AWS credits with these funds so they don't expire at the end of the year?

Answer

You can use AWS Advance Pay - see here for how to use Advance Pay: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/manage-advancepay.html
Please note that there are some restrictions to using Advance Pay: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-limits.html#limits-ap

Answer

Very unpleasant.
Maybe there is a (or many) reason(s) for not allowing direct debiting cards in Advance Pay.
But when you want to add some credits into your AWS account and forget about it 6 months.. you can't

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