I would assume that they require that your Amazon account be associated with a credit card before signing you up for AWS. Regardless, I do think it's too bad th

I would assume that they require that your Amazon account be associated with a credit card before signing you up for AWS. Regardless, I do think it's too bad that they just don't extend this to everyone (if you're already using AWS it's not like the Micro instance would be a huge jump in your bill) since it does give me a bit of a sour taste in my mouth (luckily for Amazon, AWS is just too awesome for me to really care that much). It would be nice to have a micro instance to play around with somethings. But taking the crack dealer analogy, now the first hit is free, but I'm already hooked.