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Amazon was generous enough to give you the credit trying to help your company, and in general is extremely helpful to the startup community as a whole with AWS credits. Maybe you should just give it back to them so they continue to be so kind in the future.

(On the other hand, the main reason AWS gives out these credits is to get startups hooked on AWS, then charge borderline outrageous prices once the credit is done for, profiting billions) :)

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AWS is constantly reducing prices, as their costs go down. I wouldn't accuse them of profiteering, at least any more than any public company (with the requirement of a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders).

They're not a non-profit. They don't always have the best price/performance ratio, but they do offer scaling options that few competitors can match.

Disclaimer: I am a former Amazon employee, though I sold my stock. Regretting it now, but what can you do.

(former AWS employee) You can't give the credits back or transfer them to another account (at least not in a short period of time). Best to spend them.

There's just no infrastructure to support that scenario.

Not spending the credits is like giving them back to Amazon

If you don't use the credits, they expire in two years. How is that not giving the credits back to Amazon?

If the credits ended up being donated to a non-profit org, and Amazon can't overlook it, then Amazon is just being a prick about it. Hopefully, I am jumping the gun a bit here..

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