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Why is AWS so popular? I don't mean that as a question with pretense, just genuinely curious.



Amazon gives away a silly amount of free AWS credits to some accelerator programs. At 500 Startups I think they give you $50,000 or $100,000 in credits that expire after a couple years. I assume they do the same for YC. Obviously most companies can't even use more than a tiny fraction of that.


Correct.

Either it expires after a certain time period, IIRC 2? years, or your startup takes off and you burn through the rest quickly.


I would use $50k or $100k in AWS credits, man.


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