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The credit size is not the constraint at 1 TiB a month: the smallest package, $1,000, is 10.1 TiB, which is ten months of it.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"Eligible startups ... Here's what you need to know to apply for Activate Credits ... Choose your credit tier. The page addresses 'early-stage companies' and founders, so an individual with no company is not the applicant.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"credits carry an expiry set at award and are not convertible to cash","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the page states the range and that the applicant must be an eligible startup; the tier an individual could reach is not stated on this page, so the practical offer for a person is unknown rather than zero","evidence":[{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Eligible startups can apply for packages ranging from $1,000 to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits' and 'Apply for up to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits'"},{"url":"https://b0.p.awsstatic.com/pricing/2.0/meteredUnitMaps/datatransfer/USD/current/datatransfer.json","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"us-east-1 external outbound 0.09 per GB, the rate any Activate credit is spent against"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 1,000 to 200,000 of credit","notes":"Arithmetic: $1,000 over $0.09 a GB is 11,111 GB = 11.1 TB = 10.1 TiB; $200,000 is 2,222,222 GB = 2,022 TiB. Any tier above the minimum clears 1 TiB a month for a year by a wide margin, so the arithmetic is not the question and eligibility is. Candidates considered: AWS Educate, which the same account family offers with no card and with no credits, recorded separately. Left open: whether a sole founder with no funding and no accelerator can clear the application, which the page does not answer.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"credits spend against the same EC2 and data transfer line as the Free Tier, so wg-quick on an EC2 instance is the path","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"$1,000 at $0.09 per GB is 10.1 TiB and $200,000 is 2,022 TiB, on the same 100 GB a month free egress line","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"credits offset Amazon's metered data transfer out, so the bytes still cross Amazon's network"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":2022,"unit":"TiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":1000,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":1000,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}