Responding to invitations - AWS Billing
ConsiderationsRespond to an invitation

Responding to invitations

When you sign in to your organization's management account, you can respond to invitations you have received.

Considerations

Transfers are inherited

If you are the bill-transfer account for another organization, and you accept a billing transfer invitation from a different account, that account becomes your bill-transfer account and will manage and pay for any consolidated bills that you manage and pay for.

Transfers start at the beginning of month

If an invitation is accepted, the start date is 00:00:00 UTC on the first day of the month specified in the invitation (for Eastern Standard Time this is 7:00 PM on the evening before the first day of the month).

Invitations must be accepted before the start date

Invites must be accepted 24 hours before the billing transfer start date. For example, an invitation with a start date of May 1st, needs to be accepted by April 29th 6:59:59PM Eastern Standard Time (11:59:59 PM UTC), which is two days before the start date.

Respond to an invitation

Terms and concepts

The following are terms and concepts used in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console:

  • Inbound billing: Billing transfers that allow you to manage and pay for another organization’s consolidated bill.

  • Outbound billing: Billing transfers that allow an account outside your organization to manage and pay your consolidated bill.

Minimum permissions

To respond to an invitation, you must have the following permissions actions:

  • organizations:ListHandshakesAccount

  • organizations:AcceptHandshake

  • organizations:DeclineHandshake

To respond to an invitation, complete the following steps.

To respond to an invitation

  1. Sign in to the the console and open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/.

  2. On the left navigation in Preferences and Settings, choose Billing transfers.

  3. On the Billing transfers page, select the Outbound billing tab.

  4. On the Outbound billing tab, chose View details in the alert box.

  5. On the details page for the invitation, choose Decline or Accept.

To respond to an invitation

You can use one of the following operations:

  • AWS CLI: list-handshakes-for-account, accept-handshake, and decline-handshake

    1. Run the following command to find the handshake ID:

      $ C:\> aws organizations list-handshakes-for-account \
    --filter HandshakeType=TRANSFER_RESPONSIBILITY

    2. From the response, note the handshake ID for the invitation you want to respond to.

    3. To accept the request:

      Run the following command to accept the invitation:

      $ C:\> aws organizations accept-handshake \
    --handshake-id examplehandshakeid

      To decline the request:

      Run the following command to decline the invitation:

      $ C:\> aws organizations decline-handshake \
    --handshake-id examplehandshakeid

  • AWS SDKs: ListHandshakesForAccount, AcceptHandshake, and DeclineHandshake
What to do next

After you accepting an invitation, you can monitor the status in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console or using the . For more information, see View transfers. If you decline an invitation or the invitation expires, the account that sent the invitation must send another one if you want to begin a transfer.