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Why is AWS so popular? I don't mean that as a question with pretense, just genuinely curious.

• artursapek 10y ago
  Professional, reliable, good tooling, lots of offerings
• bjterry 10y ago
  Amazon gives away a silly amount of free AWS credits to some accelerator programs. At 500 Startups I think they give you $50,000 or $100,000 in credits that expire after a couple years. I assume they do the same for YC. Obviously most companies can't even use more than a tiny fraction of that.
  • tedmiston 10y ago
    Correct. Either it expires after a certain time period, IIRC 2? years, or your startup takes off and you burn through the rest quickly.
  • fapjacks 10y ago
    I would use $50k or $100k in AWS credits, man.