AWS Activate
- Free allowance
- Eligible startups can apply for packages ranging from $1,000 to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits to access 200+ services, including AI tools, infrastructure, and data services.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 1000/TB-month
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedan application reviewed by AWS, with tiers set by funding stage and programme membership
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Eligible startups can apply for packages ranging from $1,000 to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits to access 200+ services, including AI tools, infrastructure, and data services. unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 1,000 to 200,000 of credit |
| Limits | |
| Binding | write-gated no byte moves until an application is approved, and the applicant is a startup rather than a person. 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 | institution 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. |
| Egress | $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; ingress: udp free allowance: none published |
| Interface | cli, rest the same AWS CLI and EC2 API as any AWS account |
| Tooling | wg-quick on the EC2 instance the credits pay for |
| Composes with | if granted, the only route whose limit is not the dollar figure: 10 TiB or more against a 20 TB tunnel |
| Reliability | credits carry an expiry set at award and are not convertible to cash |
| 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. Left open: whether a sole founder with no funding and no accelerator can clear the application, which the page does not answer. |
| Evidence note | documented 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 |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/ | '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' |
| 2026-10-23 | b0.p.awsstatic.com/pricing/2.0/meteredUnitMaps/datatransfer/ | us-east-1 external outbound 0.09 per GB, the rate any Activate credit is spent against |
More fields 7
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"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"
}Unknown values 2
$.per_object_cap.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer$.retention.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer