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Is the era of cloud credits over? It's been a while since I cared, but back in the olden days I had GCP/AWS credits to the tune of $100,000.
by nemothekid 6y ago
Is the era of cloud credits over? It's been a while since I cared, but back in the olden days I had GCP/AWS credits to the tune of $100,000.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoMSDN Subscriptions still have them - but of course you’re still paying thousands of USD/year for the subscription and the credits you get included are a tiny fraction of that - and it’s not like it’s costing Microsoft anything to provide that either.
- freehunter 6y agoMicrosoft has a solution they call Action Pack [1] where you pay ~$400/yr and get $100 in Azure credits each month. So basically $400 gets you $1200 worth of credits. [1] https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/membership/action-pack https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/membership/action-pack
- ed25519FUUU 6y ago$100k? That’s amazing. How did you manage that?
- nemothekid 6y agoI'm not sure what the process is now, but previously it seemed if you were part of any accelerator, or raised money from a VC both AWS/GCP would give you 100k. Here's a link I found from Google (not sure how up to date it is): https://www.joinffl.com/cloud-credits https://www.joinffl.com/cloud-credits
- freehunter 6y agoDigital Ocean hands out credits pretty often. I actually just got my first bill of the year this month after running my side project on free credits for months. Usually it's things like testing a new service or doing a survey. I'm not sure what it takes to get these credits, I've been a customer for nearly a decade but my average monthly spend is only like $20-$30.
- abimaelmartell 6y agoWith the Microsoft Startup program, you get like 150k in Azure credits.