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Google basically hands out 100k in credits to any startup. It’s spending insane amounts of money to gain market share. But since all three clouds are doing it, the net effect is really just that software companies are getting subsidized.

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AWS does this too, also to the tune of 100k iirc. You just need to show that you are funded by a known VC, and then each subsequent funding round gets you additional credits.

Correct. AWS gives you 100k credits for 1 year (or some other deal like 25k/year for 2 years). They also have tons of other incentives

* Free support and consulting (probably useful for some less technical companies)

* Free or discounted resources for POCs (ie: "This customer wants to do a 3 month POC, we're going to spend literally 0 dollars on that infrastructure")

* Other misc stuff depending on the org

worth noting that google doesn't give out 100k for free, or to "any startup". They give it in exchange for equity, and only through their VC partners and accelerators.

Citation needed.

Last I saw they definitely do not take equity.

You do however have to be qualified by applying through a partner as you say.

Nonsense - they give it away, just like AWS/IBM/Oracle do, no strings attached.

Source: received it. Not in a VC/incubator.

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