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It sounds like you're getting charged for an AWS Private CA (certificate authority), not for an individual certificate. The procedure for deleting the Private CA is explained in this documentation article: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/privateca/latest/userguide/PCADeleteCA.html
The pricing page https://aws.amazon.com/private-ca/pricing/ explains that you'll stop getting charged for the Private CA as soon as you've deleted it, if you don't restore it during the 30-day grace period, but of course, costs that had already accrued during the current month will still be charged.
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In ACM it states this "With AWS Certificate Manager, there is no additional charge for provisioning public or private SSL/TLS certificates you use with ACM-integrated services, such as Elastic Load Balancing and API Gateway. You pay for the AWS resources you create to run your application. For private certificates, AWS Private CA provides you the ability to pay monthly for the service and certificates you create. You pay less per certificate as you create more private certificates". And since I never used the certificate, I didn't think it was going to accrue anything based on the statement. I had no other resources, and I still don't, created or running. Do you know if there's a way to ask for a refund? Smh
I suggest you raise a support ticket, explain your issue as well as the fact that you never used the service to issue any certificates, and ask if they'd be kind enough to waive the fees. I don't work for AWS and can't speak for them, but I would think they would consider at least a partial refund. Public certificates and imported ones are indeed free in the public AWS Certificate Manager service, but AWS Private CA is meant as the core of a central, typically corporate certificate infrastructure, and due to its dedicated nature comes with the fixed fee you encountered.