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Ask HN: Cloud computing as a gift
I'd like to buy some friends cloud computing power for the holidays. Something like $50-60 of credit to start a new idea. Are there companies like AWS and digital ocean that allow gifting of resources?
- patio11 13y agoI'm moderately certain you can pay for AWS with any standard Amazon gift card/certificate, including the e-certificates. There also exist cards worth AWS-restricted Amazon credit, which their developer evangelists hand out occasionally, but I'm doubtful they're commercially available. When I get one I just put it in my wallet and give it to the next startup I talk to.
- tbrock 13y agoThat was the first thing I looked up and there was a quora post claiming you could not pay for AWS with an Amazon gift card. http://www.quora.com/Amazon/Can-I-use-Amazon-gift-cards-to-pay-for-AWS http://www.quora.com/Amazon/Can-I-use-Amazon-gift-cards-to-p...
- benologist 13y agoYou could open a DO account, pre-pay into it, and then hand over the credentials.