AWS Activate for Startups
$1,000 in credits
About this perk
AWS Activate provides startups with cloud credits, tools, and technical resources to build and scale modern products. Early-stage companies can launch AI workloads, run infrastructure, and experiment at low cost using Amazon’s global cloud platform. Through XRaise, eligible startups receive 1,000 dollars in credits, with pathways to access significantly higher tiers based on their workload type.
What the product does
AWS delivers compute, storage, AI, ML, databases, networking, analytics, and serverless tools used by startups worldwide. Teams can deploy production applications, train AI models, run data pipelines, and scale usage without upfront infrastructure. Credits are automatically applied to eligible services and visible in the AWS Billing Console.
What You Get
1,000 dollars in AWS Activate Credits
Credits usable across EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SageMaker, and more
Eligibility for up to 300,000 dollars in additional AI and ML credits
Automatic credit application in the AWS Billing Console
Access to foundation models through Amazon Bedrock
Support for over 200 AWS services
Eligibility
Why it matters for startups
Reduces early infrastructure costs for AI and SaaS teams
Enables experimentation with modern AI and ML services
Provides global infrastructure without hardware or setup
Helps founders scale applications and workloads efficiently
Supports both early prototypes and production environments
Use cases / best for
AI startups training or deploying models
SaaS products needing scalable compute or storage
Early-stage teams building serverless backends
Web3, data engineering, and analytics workloads
Startups preparing for rapid growth on cloud infrastructure
FAQs
Credits cannot be used for Mechanical Turk, AWS Managed Services, AWS Marketplace (except Bedrock models), AWS Professional Services, Training, Certifications, or upfront fees for Reserved Instances or Savings Plans.
The AWS Billing and Cost Management Console shows active credits, usage history, and remaining balance.
Yes. Eligible credits are automatically applied to billing for supported services.
