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About This Deal
This deal entitles eligible applicants to receive USD $10,000 in free AWS credits that can be used to cover web hosting costs.
The $10k credits will expire after 2 years.
This deal also comes with AWS Premium Business Support:
- 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via email, chat and phone.
- Trusted Advisor checks and guidance to help reduce cost, increase performance and fault tolerance.
- Personalised view of the health of AWS services.
Eligibility:
- Account must not have received credits greater or equal to $10,000 in the past.
- Applicant must be running a startup and can demonstrate that AWS credits will be used for an innovative tech-based solution.
- Startup must be bootstrapped with customers or have raised some funding (pre-seed to Series A).
- Must have an active (production-ready) website built on AWS. Websites/ventures that are "in development" will not be approved.
- Startup must demonstrate that the $10k credits will be used to scale the business.
- The website URL provided during application must be the same URL as the one on AWS Activate.
- Your website URL must be a top-level domain (not subdomain).
- Accounts claiming this deal must be existing active BEAMSTART members.
- Application emalis must be from an official company website (no free email services like gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc).
- Application details on our website must be the same as on AWS Activate website.
- You must apply for this deal prior submitting your AWS Activate application (applications will be rejected if we are unable to find your record in our database)
- Company/venture must be younger than 10 years old.
- This deal can only be applied once per member account.
- The applicant must be the owner of the AWS account.
We recommend signing up for the $5,000 AWS credits deal first if you haven't done so yet.
About Amazon Web Services offerings
AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
You can use your AWS Activate credits for AWS services and support from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.
For a comprehensive list of eligible services, please review the lowermost section of the credits page here after receiving your AWS Activate credit approval email.
Deal Availability
- All Countries
Frequently Asked Questions
I did not receive a reply with the AWS organization ID. Why is this happening?If you do not receive a response on your AWS organization ID, this would mean that your application has been rejected and your startup does not meet the eligibility criteria mentioned above. You're welcome to reapply again.
If you do not receive a response on your AWS organization ID, this would mean that your application has been rejected and your startup does not meet the eligibility criteria mentioned above. You're welcome to reapply again.
My application got rejected by AWS. What should I do?Usually applications get rejected because they do not meet AWS's eligiblity requirements. The most common reasons are due to:
- Non-functional or new websites/startups. Your startup should have been running and operational for a while (websites under development will be rejected).
- New startups (your startup should be funded or bootstrapped for a while).
- Incomplete billing information in their account.
- Have applied for similar value (or higher amount) of credits previously.
- Unable to demonstrate that your startup is an innovative tech solution built on AWS's infrastructure.
You can re-submit your application again, but ensure that you meet the requirements.
Usually applications get rejected because they do not meet AWS's eligiblity requirements. The most common reasons are due to:
- Non-functional or new websites/startups. Your startup should have been running and operational for a while (websites under development will be rejected).
- New startups (your startup should be funded or bootstrapped for a while).
- Incomplete billing information in their account.
- Have applied for similar value (or higher amount) of credits previously.
- Unable to demonstrate that your startup is an innovative tech solution built on AWS's infrastructure.
You can re-submit your application again, but ensure that you meet the requirements.
Which services are not eligible for AWS Activate credits?Below are some of the services that are not eligible for AWS Activate credits:
- Domain purchases on Route 53.
- Cryptocurrency mining services.
- Stand-alone landing pages.
- Corporate landing pages / microsites.
- Stand-alone Shopping / E-Commerce websites.
Below are some of the services that are not eligible for AWS Activate credits:
- Domain purchases on Route 53.
- Cryptocurrency mining services.
- Stand-alone landing pages.
- Corporate landing pages / microsites.
- Stand-alone Shopping / E-Commerce websites.
Can I use this deal twice on the same AWS account?No, this deal can only be used once. You can however, use another deal that is larger in value on the same account.
No, this deal can only be used once. You can however, use another deal that is larger in value on the same account.
What will happen if I do not use up the credits within the 2 years?Any unutilized credits will be forfeited after the 2 years.
Any unutilized credits will be forfeited after the 2 years.
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