Finally!! Got $5,000 AWS Credits!!

We had been hunting for AWS credits for sometime.

PipFeed was selected for "Founder Friendly Labs" and they were offering us 100K USD of AWS credits but the catch was that we had to visit SF for one day and also had to pay a joining fee of around 800USD. We decided not to join them.

We were racking up AWS bills (around 500 USD per month) so we had to find a way to get more credits.

We then applied to -> https://aws.amazon.com/activate/gettingstarted/ for 1000 USD credits but we were rejected for not having a LinkedIn profile. We sent them multiple emails but didn't hear back from them.

We finally joined startups.com and applied 5k credits using their code and in 5 days we have the credits. 5k Credits + 1.5K business support credits.

Someone from IH did share a link for discounted AppSumo price for startups.com, but we had already bought the full-price subscription.

Now we are trying to get into an accelerator which will help us get 100K AWS credits.

Do you guys know a simpler way to get AWS credits?

P.S. I am an ex-AWS engineer. Worked for 3+ years building AWS Sagemaker & also on AWS SDK for PHP.