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The credit lands on an AWS account the applicant already holds, and the institution email is the gate that precedes the award, so no chain starts.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the application needs an institution-issued .edu or .org address and a 90 to 120 day human review, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot submit at all.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-computing/cloud-credit-for-research/"}],"limits_note":"the application needs an institution-issued .edu or .org address and a 90 to 120 day human review, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot submit at all.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the application needs an institution-issued .edu or .org address and a 90 to 120 day human review, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot submit at all.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"an institution-issued email address on a .edu, .org or equivalent domain, plus an eligible role at an accredited research institution (full-time faculty, full-time research staff, or an enrolled graduate/post-graduate/PhD student). The FAQ states 'Applications from non-institution domains will not be accepted.' Review takes 90 to 120 days. No card, hold, debit or prepaid term is stated: the award is credit on an AWS account the applicant already holds.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-computing/cloud-credit-for-research/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Student awards will be up to a maximum of $5,000.00. Faculty and Staff awards are not capped' and 'Amazon EC2 usage supported by AWS Promotional Credit will be for on-demand and spot instances only' and 'Typical review cycles are 90 to 120 days', quoted; page 200"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-computing/cloud-credit-for-research/faqs/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'We require applicants provide their official institution-issued email ID (.edu, .org, or equivalent) to expedite the verification and decision process. Applications from non-institution domains will not be accepted.' quoted; also 'The only exception is applications from the greater China region'"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-computing/cloud-credit-for-research/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"eligibility list is exactly three roles, all tied to 'an accredited research institution': full-time faculty, full-time research staff, graduate/post-graduate/PhD students enrolled there"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"A clean refutation and the most useful negative in this class, because USD 5,000 uncapped-for-staff is the kind of number a reader would otherwise chase. Two separate gates, either of which is fatal: the .edu/.org domain rule, stated as an absolute ('will not be accepted'), and the role list, which has no independent-researcher category. The program itself is alive and global outside greater China, so the verdict is fails-identity rather than dead.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"research-credit","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}