Amazon Web Services
AWS Activate
From
$1,000
Founders · up to $100,000 with accelerator/VC partner · 2 years
Open to solo founders, no VC or referral needed, a registered entity is expected. Around 15 minutes to apply, hear back 1–2 weeks.
Takes ~30 seconds. One-click magic link, no password — we’ll bring you right back to this claim.
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What you get
- EC2
- S3
- Bedrock
- SageMaker
Best for
- infra
- inference
- storage
Watch out
- Must not have previously received AWS Activate credits
How it works
The application
- Time to apply
- ~15 min
- Review
- 1–2 weeks
- Difficulty
- 2/5
The program
- Duration
- 2 years
- Renewal
- One-time
- Credit type
- Cloud credits
Who qualifies
- Stage
- idea to Series A
- Funding
- Higher tiers require accelerator/VC
- Solo founder
- Welcome
- Entity
- Required
- Referral
- Not needed
- VC backing
- Not needed