Ask HN: AWS keeps charging me on a close Amazon account

Sometime in April I closed my Amazon.com account. On May I received an invoice from AWS saying my account has been charged for the AWS services I used.

However because my Amazon.com account has been closed, I was no longer able to access my AWS console to stop the services.

I have tried to contact AWS and Amazon.com multiple times, without getting anywhere. Today after spending hours on the phone they finally told me that I have to re-open my Amazon.com account, then stop the AWS services, and re-close my Amazon.com account. Out of principle this is something that I don't want to do.

I have closed my account, they have locked me out of the AWS console, that's the end of it. I find it kafkaesque that they are still happy to send me invoices and charge my account when they are not allowing me to access the AWS console.

Does anyone have any advice on how to resolve this without playing their game?