AWS Startups Blog
14 ways to show your startup some love with AWS Activate
Ready to bring your next brilliant idea to life? AWS Activate is here to give your startup a little love with AWS credits, exclusive member-only offers, personalized guidance, and expert advice. This program was specially created to help startups like yours build and succeed.
The sweet benefits of AWS Activate
The goal of AWS Activate is to help your startup grow, scale, and succeed, while saving as much money as possible.
- AWS Activate is 100% free to join
- Start your AWS Activate journey with up to $100,000 in AWS credits
- Create new infrastructure with easy-to-use, pre-made templates
- Benefit from special discounts and deals, such as services, tools, memberships, and products
- Enjoy the Activate console’s information and support, including personalized guidance, AWS credit details, and more
AWS Activate offers
It’s the month of love, and your startup deserves something sweet! Check out this lineup of swoon-worthy offers from AWS Activate Providers.
1. Deel
Deel is the all-in-one human resources (HR) platform for global teams. It helps companies simplify every aspect of managing an international workforce, from culture and onboarding, to local payroll and compliance.
Deel works compliantly for independent contractors and full-time employees in more than 150 countries. And getting set up takes just a few minutes.
Get the offer: AWS Activate members receive a free HRIS and 20% off the following Deel products: Employer of Record (EOR), Contractor Management & Shield, Global Payroll, US Payroll and PEO, and Entity Setup.
2. Amplitude
Amplitude’s leading digital analytics platform is the first unified system that fully understands the full customer journey and enables any team member to deliver exceptional experiences in real time. Improve data quality, ask next-level questions, identify the best customer experience, and integrate insights across multiple platforms to grow your business sustainably.
Get the offer: One year of free access to our Growth plan via Startup Scholarship (worth up to $100,000 in value) and access to lifetime discounts after that—one redemption per company.
3. Bubble
Bubble is a software development platform that enables anyone to build and launch web applications without writing code. Rather than specializing in different aspects of web development (i.e., building landing page or database), Bubble’s full-stack visual programming does it all.
Get the offer: Bubble is offering $2,500 in Bubble credits for the first 6 months of being a Bubble user.
4. Plaid
Faster, safer, more seamless financial experiences are within reach. From your first sign-up to your 10,000th, onboard new customers, fight fraud, move money, and make better risk decisions with Plaid.
Get the offer: New to Plaid? Get up to $30,000 in API credits—and no monthly minimums—for your first six months.
AWS Build guides
AWS Build is a self-service global program designed to help early stage startups take advantage of the AWS tech stack in order to build, improve, and launch their minimum viable product (MVP).
5. Build a web application on AWS
Use this guide to build a simple web application using AWS Amplify. Amplify provides a set of tools and services for building full-stack web apps, including hosting, authentication, databases, and more.
6. Build generative AI applications
This guide provides users with the opportunity to create basic artificial intelligence (AI)-powered demo apps, with an emphasis on fundamental principles. These hands-on sessions cover a range of topics, from creating chatbots to enhancing output with data retrieval techniques, generating images, and more.
7. Host your API
In this guide, you will learn how to use Amazon API Gateway to expose an AWS Lambda function. Once this API is accessible to all via the internet, you will then learn how to secure it using the Amazon Cognito user pool. This configuration will allow you to turn your statically hosted website into a dynamic web application by adding client-side JavaScript that makes AJAX calls to the exposed APIs.
8. Build event-driven, serverless applications
Looking to build event-driven application architectures that allow subscribers or target services to automatically perform work? Through hands-on practice, this guide will teach you the basics of event-driven design, how to choose the right AWS service for the job, and how to optimize for cost and performance.
9. Build automation with ML
Get started with our step-by-step guide, which illustrates a use case for a task-automated contact center using Amazon Connect, integrated with machine learning (ML). Plus, learn how Amazon Transcribe’s speech-to-text capabilities can help you accurately convert legal proceedings into text.
Additional benefits
In addition to guides and partner deals, new AWS Activate members receive a wide range of benefits.
10. Up to $100,000 in AWS credits for qualifying startups
Apply for up to $100,000 in AWS Cloud Credits and take advantage of a broad array of AWS services. Founders of early stage startups can use credits to build their MVP, while those running more established startups can use the credits to reduce cash burn and extend their runway.
11. Curated learning resources
Integrating AI? Building a machine learning model? Creating a mobile app? Our Startup Learning Center can assist you with countless common use cases.
12. Showcase startup directory
Showcase is a directory designed to help you amplify your business, debut your solution, find your peers, and catch investors’ attention. Showcase is your destination for extending your startup’s reach.
13. Access more than 30 startup accelerators
From generative AI to fintech and accelerators for underrepresented founders, refine your MVP alongside AWS Startup Solutions Architects and industry experts in a selection of global cohort-based programs.
14. Abundant expertise
Engage with the AWS Startups team of thousands of experts and support partners available in every region of the world. Institutional investors, technical gurus, former founders, and business leaders all come together at AWS Activate to offer you the guidance you need. Tap into a wealth of institutional knowledge from across the Amazon network with experts from Amazon Music, Audible, Alexa, and hundreds of other Amazon teams.
Looking to cozy up with AWS all year?
Startups.aws is the ultimate destination for AWS Activate members searching for special deals. You’ll benefit from niche tools, content, and resources all created specifically to help startups succeed throughout every stage of their journey. Begin growing your business on AWS with the help of AWS Startups.
