List of places to get AWS Activate credits 🚀
Hello, fellow indie hackers,
Let's gather a list of equity-free places to get AWS Activate credits from.
This is the most obvious choice at the start:
AWS Activate Founders - 1k$ for bootstrapped startups.
P.S. There was a hot Appsumo deal where you could get 5k$ AWS credits through a 49$ lifetime access deal for Startups, however, the deal between the two got cut last Friday.
Do you know any other deals that include AWS credits? Let's share the knowledge in the comments. 🍀
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Found interesting equity-free Venture Program - https://aurelia.ventures. The program fee is 2790$, but you get 100k$ AWS credits and a lot of other perks such as 100k$ Google Cloud, 145k Azure, 120k IBM Cloud, and others. The total worth of perks 550k$+.
It is too many credits for my current scale this year. It would cover the AWS bill of ~4150$ per month for 2 years. 😅
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I haven't tried it. From a first glance - it looks legit. 🤷 However, there might be some heavy screening processes involved to actually qualify.
Not sure why you couldn't get find the AWS 5K credits from AppSumo's Startups lifetime deal.
It is still active here - https://bit.ly/startups-aws
May be it's so because I am AppSumo Plus member. But I believe it's still available for all members. Let me know if you find the deal expired on your side.
Startup.com has stopped the AWS benefit at the time I posted it. I talked with their support and they claimed they do not know if it will ever appear on their benefits page again. AWS cut the deal with them and even if you had a screenshot of the organization ID to apply, the AWS won't accept it anymore. The AWS benefit description got removed from the AppSumo deal as well.
Wow! I never knew this. Thank you for reporting.
I have found another opportunity for 5k$ AWS credits - Latka SaaS Hackers community. It has a bunch of other deals for SaaS tools and services. What is more, you get access to their private Slack community.
Membership fee - $499/year.
Product Hunt Founders Club gives out $5000 in Activate credits, along with a bunch of other discounts on Airtable, Stripe (& Stripe Atlas), HubSpot, Airtable, etc. It costs $720 to signup though, so it's quite steep compared to AppSumo's program.
Thanks for the information - it is very useful. I have seen there is a ProductHunt Ship program as well, however, for startups with an existing MVP, Product Hunt Founders Club might be a better option. 🍀
As there is no AppSumo deal anymore, this might be the best option 🤔
I know, just saw that the AppSumo deal is gone :(. I just stumbled across Gust though https://gust.com/launch/accelerate which seems like a great option depending on how big your AWS bill is. 1k / year membership —> 25k credits + lots of other discounts
Very nice for founders operating in the United States (not available elsewhere). It includes other nice perks such as tax filing discount, 10k$ on Digital Ocean, 300k Sendgrid emails, legal document templates, etc..