The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program
Providing up to $5,000 in AWS Promotional Credit to nonprofits around the world
Get started with the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program
The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program provides access to up to $5,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit, helping to offset costs for nonprofits associated with implementing cloud-based solutions. This helps nonprofits meet mission goals without upfront investment in physical infrastructure.
What can the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program do for you?
Your organization needs reliability and efficiency to run applications that support your website and operations. AWS infrastructure for websites, fundraising, database management, and more provide rapid access to flexible and low-cost IT resources. Apply for the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program to start your journey with AWS.
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Reduce IT costs
AWS gives you the flexibility to scale and save on IT costs by not having to invest in physical infrastructure. Use only the resources you need when you need them.
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Increase giving
AWS offers advanced, cost-effective services that let you simply process, analyze, and visualize data so you can make well-informed targeting and fundraising decisions.
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Scale globally
AWS lets you widen your global reach and deploy solutions where they are needed. Equip volunteers and staff with the tools, resources, and access they need without long-term licensing agreements.
The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program helps nonprofits build a better world
Whether you're looking for computational muscle, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability. The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program helps you to get started or enhance your mission using the AWS Cloud.
Computing power
Scalable, cloud-based alternative to virtual servers for additional computing power, including databases, enterprise applications, and migrations.
Storage
Persistent local storage for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), databases, data warehousing, enterprise applications, and more.
Database
Relational databases designed for quick deployment and management to store and manage petabytes worth of data.
Advanced computing
High-powered computing services that enable capabilities far beyond traditional IT.
"The credit has been critical to our business operations and mission. With the credit, we are able to run a proper environment that includes a development and test instance."
– Brian Moran, Co-Founder, Boolean Girl
"Amazon Web Services helped reduce the administrative burden from our staff, allowing them to spend more time delivering vital services to our community."
– Fergus Fitzsimons, CEO, Centacare New England North West
“The credit has been an amazing offering for the charity and its programming. The credit covers 95 percent of the costs we incur for using AWS in a calendar year.”
– Sarah Quillen, Vice President of Development and Marketing, Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Greater Washington, DC
Help us tell your story
Nonprofits influence positive change, and we want to help you share your story. This short survey, hosted by an external company (Qualtrics), asks about how your organization is using AWS and other technologies to support mission-critical work.
Help us tell your story
Nonprofits influence positive change, and we want to help you share your story. This short survey, hosted by an external company (Qualtrics), asks about how your organization is using AWS and other technologies to support mission-critical work.
Resources
WEBSITE
Discover the steps you need to take to migrate your organization to the cloud - from design to implementation.
VIDEOS
Find the hands-on tutorials and training videos for your AWS needs. Get started with simple step-by-step tutorials to launch your first workload.
WEBSITE
AWS provides a set of solutions built on top of the AWS Cloud to help quickly enable remote work.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
If you have a question that isn't covered on this page, please contact us.
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AWS nonprofit credit program FAQs
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AWS general FAQs
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AWS nonprofit credit program FAQs
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Who can redeem AWS Promotional Credit?
The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program is available to nonprofits with 501c3 designation and public libraries with valid 501c3 status or licensed within the Institute of Museum and Library Services database. Organizations with annual operating budgets of any size are eligible.
Educational institutions, including K12 schools, colleges, universities, and trade schools, are not eligible to request a grant from this program, but they may be eligible for the AWS Educate Program.
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Is this program offered globally?
Yes, verify your eligibility.
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Where can I receive AWS Promotional Credit?
The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program works with TechSoup and its Partner NGOs to distribute AWS Promotional Credit to qualified organizations. Request AWS Promotional Credit for organizations registered in the USA.
Find a partner NGO for International organizations.
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When and how often can an organization request AWS Promotional Credit?
Organizations may request one grant of AWS Promotional Credit each fiscal year (July 1 to June 30). The AWS Promotional Credit is valid for at least one year or until the value is exhausted—whichever comes first.
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How do I redeem my AWS Promotional Credit once I have my code from TechSoup?
Redeem your AWS Promotional Credit or follow the instructions below:
- Log in to your AWS Account.
- Navigate to the Billing Dashboard and then to the “Credit” section of the console on the left.
- Add the AWS Promotional Credit code you received in an email from TechSoup ("promo code").
- Complete the security check.
- Click "Redeem."
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What services does the AWS Promotional Credit cover?
The AWS Promotional Credit is valid for all on-demand services with pay-as-you-go pricing.
It is not valid for any fees or charges for Reserved Instances, Amazon Mechanical Turk, ineligible AWS Support, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Route 53 domain name registration or transfer, any services for mining for cryptocurrency, or any upfront fee for any services.
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How long is the AWS Promotional Credit valid?
The AWS Promotional Credit is valid for at least one year from the time you receive the credit.
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What happens when my promotional code expires, or I use the entire credit?
Once your AWS Promotional Credit is exhausted or expires, your account will be charged for services as you use them.
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How can I set up billing alerts and alarms?
You can monitor your estimated AWS charges with Amazon CloudWatch. When you enable the monitoring of estimated charges for your AWS account, the estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data. The alarm triggers when your account billing exceeds the threshold you specify. It only triggers when actual billing exceeds the threshold.
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AWS general FAQs
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What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing service that offers servers and data centers to organizations worldwide. AWS is a part of Amazon dedicated to delivering web services to developers and businesses who build online applications.
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What is cloud computing?
The term "cloud computing" refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining data centers and servers, organizations can acquire technology like computing power, storage, databases, and other services on an as-needed basis. It’s similar to switching on a light in your home and receiving electricity from a power company.
With cloud computing, AWS manages and maintains technology infrastructure in a secure environment. Organizations use these resources remotely to develop and run their applications, access servers, or store and retrieve data. Capacity can grow or shrink instantly depending on an organization’s needs.
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What are the advantages of moving to the AWS Cloud?
Agility
AWS lets organizations quickly spin up resources as they need them, deploying hundreds or even thousands of servers in minutes. This means you can very quickly develop and roll out new applications. It also means that your team can experiment and innovate more quickly and more frequently. If an experiment fails, you can always deprovision those servers without risk.
Cost savings
AWS allows nonprofits to trade capital expense for variable expense by paying for IT as they consume it. In most cases, these operating costs are less than those your organization would incur otherwise.
Elasticity
Organizations sometimes overprovision server capacity to ensure that they have enough power to handle their business operations at peak level of activity. AWS allows you to provision the amount of resources that you actually need. Nonprofits can instantly scale up or down along with the needs of their operations, often at lower costs.
Speed of innovation
You can focus high-value IT staff on developing applications instead of the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing infrastructure and data centers.
Global deployment
AWS maintains data centers in different physical locations around the world. Each group of logical data centers is an Availability Zone. Using AWS, you can leverage 76 Availability Zones across 24 geographic regions worldwide.
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What are some other benefits of using AWS?
Support
AWS support offers a range of plans that provide access to tools and expertise to aid the success and operational health of your AWS solutions. All support plans provide 24/7 access to customer service, AWS documentation, white papers, and support forums. For technical support and more resources to plan, deploy, and improve your AWS environment, you can select a support plan that best aligns with your needs.
AWS support offers four support plans: basic, developer, business, and enterprise. The basic plan is free of charge and offers support for account and billing questions and service limit increases. The other plans offer an unlimited number of technical support cases with pay-by-the-month pricing and no long-term contracts, providing different levels of support to meet your needs.
All AWS customers automatically have around-the-clock access to these features of the basic support plan:● Customer service: one-on-one responses to account and billing questions
● Support forums
● Service health checks
● Documentation, white papers, and best practice guides
InnovationSince 2012, AWS has introduced over 100 major new services. We continue to enhance the services based on customer response, usage, and needs. Moreover, AWS released more than 200 machine learning features and capabilities in 2018.
LongevityOperating since 2006, AWS is the fastest-growing enterprise IT vendor in the world.
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Is the AWS Cloud secure?
Yes. The AWS Cloud employs the same security measures as a traditional data center. These include physical data center security, separation of the network, and isolation of the server hardware and storage.
AWS has a shared responsibility model with the customer. AWS manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the services operate. AWS customers are responsible for building secure applications.
AWS provides a wide variety of best practice documents, encryption tools, and other guidance that customers can leverage in delivering application-level security measures. In addition, AWS partners offer hundreds of tools and features to help nonprofits meet their security objectives, which range from network security to configuration management, access control, and data encryption.
One of the advantages of using the cloud is that organizations inherit best practices for policies, architecture, and operational processes built to satisfy the requirements of its most security-sensitive vendors. For example, Thorn is a nonprofit dedicated to defending children from sexual abuse. It leverages AWS to achieve mission-critical goals and trusts AWS with sensitive data.
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Are AWS features and services reliable?
Yes. AWS builds its data centers in multiple geographic regions, as well as across multiple Availability Zones within each region to offer maximum resiliency against system disruption. AWS designs its data centers with significant excess bandwidth connections so that if a major disruption occurs there is sufficient capacity to load-balance traffic to the remaining sites and minimize the impact on customers.
Additionally, AWS provides a Service Health Dashboard to shows the current operational status of each of our services in real time, so our uptime and performance are fully transparent.
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