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Amazon Web Services Proof of Concept Program: Apply For Project for Approval

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Amazon Web Services via Amazon is offering $300 AWS Credits to Small Business for Free for applying/qualifying through Amazon Web Services Proof of Concept Program and provide/submit their project idea for approval.

Thanks to community member elptrash for finding this deal

Note, must submit a valid project/intent idea to be granted a $300 in AWS credits.

To qualify, you must have
  • A valid AWS account, with up-to-date billing information
    (reseller accounts do not qualify)
  • Not previously received more than $200 of AWS promotional credit
  • A sufficient business case and proof of concept to test using the credits
  • No linked accounts
  • Credits valid for 6 months

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Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Amazon Web Services wants to help your business scale and grow with low cost, easy to use cloud products and services.
  • The AWS Proof of Concept Program provides a $300 credit to small businesses to quickly get started and test AWS against their specific IT and business requirements by subsidizing a proof of concept
  • Please refer to the form page for project requirements/budget range/etc. This form may be completed in connection w/ business/personal interest
  • Offer valid while promotion/credit offer last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Amazon Web Services via Amazon is offering $300 AWS Credits to Small Business for Free for applying/qualifying through Amazon Web Services Proof of Concept Program and provide/submit their project idea for approval.

Thanks to community member elptrash for finding this deal

Note, must submit a valid project/intent idea to be granted a $300 in AWS credits.

To qualify, you must have
  • A valid AWS account, with up-to-date billing information
    (reseller accounts do not qualify)
  • Not previously received more than $200 of AWS promotional credit
  • A sufficient business case and proof of concept to test using the credits
  • No linked accounts
  • Credits valid for 6 months

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Amazon Web Services wants to help your business scale and grow with low cost, easy to use cloud products and services.
  • The AWS Proof of Concept Program provides a $300 credit to small businesses to quickly get started and test AWS against their specific IT and business requirements by subsidizing a proof of concept
  • Please refer to the form page for project requirements/budget range/etc. This form may be completed in connection w/ business/personal interest
  • Offer valid while promotion/credit offer last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Woz2000
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If you're using on demand (guarantee availability) and medium to high performance (no GPU), this is about 3 days to a weeks worth. If you're using spot which is their excess capacity (could shut down at any time but doesn't really happen) it could be 2 to 3x longer.

Here is what I spent last week on 256 virtualCPUs:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Linux/UNIX Spot Instances $276.85
c6i.8xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #1 4.904 Hrs $2.78
m3.medium Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #4 0.017 Hrs $0.00
r6i.12xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #80 0.087 Hrs $0.08
r6i.16xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #2 141.980 Hrs $185.63
r6i.16xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #4 29.225 Hrs $34.77
r6i.16xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #80 29.215 Hrs $34.76
r6i.8xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #1 0.086 Hrs $0.05
r6i.8xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #80 31.564 Hrs $18.78

EBS$10.61
$0.05 per GB-Month of snapshot data stored - US West (Oregon) 23.036 GB-Mo $1.15
$0.10 per GB-month of General Purpose SSD (gp2) provisioned storage - US West (Oregon) 94.552 GB-Mo $9.46
MadPup
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Realistically what does $300 get you in terms of compute and storage?
George_P_Burdell
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If you're a student you get free $100 in azure.

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Feb 15, 2022 02:03 AM
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SavingIsArtFeb 15, 2022 02:03 AM
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Thx OP. Any idea how soon one will get the credit? The form is not simple 30sec fillout thing. Hedging the bet. lol.
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Feb 15, 2022 02:33 AM
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elptrash
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Feb 15, 2022 02:33 AM
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Quote from SavingIsArt :
Thx OP. Any idea how soon one will get the credit? The form is not simple 30sec fillout thing. Hedging the bet. lol.
No idea. I don't really have a project I can say I'm using it for but I thought someone else might. Let me know how it goes though.
Feb 15, 2022 03:00 AM
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BoldIntrepidFeb 15, 2022 03:00 AM
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Quote from SavingIsArt :
Thx OP. Any idea how soon one will get the credit? The form is not simple 30sec fillout thing. Hedging the bet. lol.
I agree, I have projects but they aren't important enough to fill out that long form
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If you're a student you get free $100 in azure.
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Realistically what does $300 get you in terms of compute and storage?
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SIR_of_CricketFeb 15, 2022 03:08 AM
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Quote from MadPup :
Realistically what does $300 get you in terms of compute and storage?
^ This. Interested to know as well
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Woz2000Feb 15, 2022 03:09 AM
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If you're using on demand (guarantee availability) and medium to high performance (no GPU), this is about 3 days to a weeks worth. If you're using spot which is their excess capacity (could shut down at any time but doesn't really happen) it could be 2 to 3x longer.

Here is what I spent last week on 256 virtualCPUs:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Linux/UNIX Spot Instances $276.85
c6i.8xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #1 4.904 Hrs $2.78
m3.medium Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #4 0.017 Hrs $0.00
r6i.12xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #80 0.087 Hrs $0.08
r6i.16xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #2 141.980 Hrs $185.63
r6i.16xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #4 29.225 Hrs $34.77
r6i.16xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #80 29.215 Hrs $34.76
r6i.8xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #1 0.086 Hrs $0.05
r6i.8xlarge Linux/UNIX Spot Instance-hour in US West (Oregon) in VPC Zone #80 31.564 Hrs $18.78

EBS$10.61
$0.05 per GB-Month of snapshot data stored - US West (Oregon) 23.036 GB-Mo $1.15
$0.10 per GB-month of General Purpose SSD (gp2) provisioned storage - US West (Oregon) 94.552 GB-Mo $9.46

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Realistically what does $300 get you in terms of compute and storage?
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CataguyFeb 15, 2022 03:11 AM
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Quote from SIR_of_Cricket :
^ This. Interested to know as well
Depending on your use case, you blow thru this in a couple of months, weeks or days.

If you're just using some regular logic with not too much data churn, you're probably fine, but once you're getting traffic, it's gonna start costing money.
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mockerFeb 15, 2022 03:15 AM
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Quote from Cataguy :
Depending on your use case, you blow thru this in a couple of months, weeks or days.

If you're just using some regular logic with not too much data churn, you're probably fine, but once you're getting traffic, it's gonna start costing money.
This could definitely last you a couple months for a proof of concept or small biz. 3 days to a week would be considered high traffic or high compute.. if you are going through $300 of aws compute that fast, you are a hit and hopefully making bank from all that traffic
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m7e4dFeb 15, 2022 03:26 AM
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Quote from MadPup :
Realistically what does $300 get you in terms of compute and storage?
I'm a solutions architect and I can make this last for quite a while since I don't keep my servers running. When working on solutions you can use things like Terraform to build and power on servers and configure as needed with automated solutions like Ansible. But, realistically if you wanted to use this for something cool like a small DNS PiHole type server it could last you more than 6months.

An EC2 instance with 2 vCPU and 8gb of RAM w/ 30gb SSD running Linux costs around $50/month. For 6 months you could run it 24/7 and barely incur any cost.

https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/EC2
Last edited by m7e4d February 14, 2022 at 07:28 PM.
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BoldIntrepidFeb 15, 2022 03:38 AM
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Quote from mocker :
This could definitely last you a couple months for a proof of concept or small biz. 3 days to a week would be considered high traffic or high compute.. if you are going through $300 of aws compute that fast, you are a hit and hopefully making bank from all that traffic
I mean... he could also be unoptimized and just wasting resources Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
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mockerFeb 15, 2022 03:52 AM
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Do you really want to give AWS your brilliant idea for them to take for $300? Also, who is running EC2-based designs anymore. Go cloud native folks!
You think Amazon is trolling people looking for $300 credit to find their next big idea? You must be one of those 'idea person' I see posting help wanted ads. Ec2 is cloud, it is for a specific use case. These are generic aws credits which includes all sorts of other cloud native architecture.
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TheRealK12Feb 15, 2022 04:31 AM
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Quote from ChadC4361 :
Do you really want to give AWS your brilliant idea for them to take for $300? Also, who is running EC2-based designs anymore. Go cloud native folks!
There is still plenty of valid use cases for EC2. In terms of keeping cost down, depends on your use case. A static site? Just use S3 object storage. Expecting traffic that requires business logic done? Consider lambda or something like ECS fargate for your apps

Im also a certified architect in AWS for reference.

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