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We recommend you maintain two Amazon Web Services accounts- a master account and second account specifically for your Cloud Controllers application storage and server(s). Contact us for assistance. We also recommend you purchase a hardware dongle to prevent unauthorized access to your Amazon Web Services account: http://aws.amazon.com/mfa/

How Billing is split between Amazon Payments (Server fees) and Amazon Web Services (Storage Charges).

Please see the graphic below.

The charges from Amazon Payments on the left are the hourly charges billed at the end of each month which cover our support and services and runtime charges for your  cloud server(s) which host your application(s).

The charges from Amazon Web Services on the right cover the data associated with the EBS volumes (virtual hard disks) used by your hosted application(s) and snapshot backups of the EBS volumes.

Image (4) on the right relates to S3 buckets or other EC2 servers used by employees who have access to your Amazon Web Services account. Your billing is MUCH easier to manage if you create a separate AWS account for Cloud Controllers managed under AWS Consolidated Billing. Contact us and we'll help you set up AWS Consolidated Billing .

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