AWS Activate credits not applied after AWS Organizations billing change — has anyone resolved this?
We’re a startup using AWS Activate credits through a partner startup program. The credits are active, valid, and have a large remaining balance, but they were not applied to our recent AWS invoice.
AWS Support confirmed that the issue was not because the credits expired, were exhausted, or were invalid. They said the credits were missed because our AWS account changed AWS Organizations billing-family membership during the billing month, which caused the billing period to split. Because of that, the credit was apparently not picked up during invoice generation.
The frustrating part is that there was no clear email warning, console alert, billing-risk notification, or confirmation message telling us that this organization/billing change could prevent active credits from applying to the invoice. From our side, the credit looked active and available, so we had no reason to expect a full invoice without credits applied.
AWS is saying they cannot retroactively rerun the old billing period and suggested contacting the startup program partner for possible authorization of an adjustment.
Has anyone here faced a similar AWS Activate / AWS Organizations billing-family issue? Were you able to get AWS to issue a credit memo, service credit, or invoice adjustment? Any advice on the right escalation path would be appreciated.
Update - Issue Resolved, bill got waived off. Thanks to the Team.