AWS account vs Amazon consumer account

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stackoverflowuser2010 picture stackoverflowuser2010 · Aug 30, 2016 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I am a longtime Amazon.com customer, and now I am interested in using Amazon Web Services (AWS). So I have a question on creating an AWS account.

  1. Do I have an option to create an AWS account that's completely separate from my Amazon.com account (with different email addresses)?

  2. What would happen if I use the same email address for AWS and Amazon.com?

Answer

user10881814 picture user10881814 · Jan 8, 2019

Soooo..... Ages ago... I made an AWS account, it will not let me log in to normal amazon.com with that account telling me every time my password is incorrect which it is not.... attempting to create a new account with same email asks me if i want to disable my old account..... so yea it seems the answer is:

  1. YES: simply create the account from AWS.

  2. If creating accounts at amazon.com THEN aws with same e-mail, you will have one linked account to log in to both. On the other hand if both are created seperately on different e-mails, and somehow one gets compromised the other doesn't, but then you have two different logins to deal with.

So as it turns out they lied about it disabling my aws account, I decided to try it, and now I have two accounts under the same e-mail, with different passwords... So if you want that, create on aws first, then create with same email on amazon.com and when it says it will disable the other account, don't worry it won't, however it will require you to choose a different password.

Oh and one last thing... If I try to log into AWS with Amazon.com password it brings me to create a new AWS account and it's a pain to get out of that screen...

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