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AWS Activate, Portfolio

aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-abCloud VMcompute/aws-activate-portfolioJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: compute/aws-activate-founders says email, compute/aws-activate-portfolio says institution
verdict: compute/aws-activate-founders says qualifies-with-caveat, compute/aws-activate-portfolio says fails-identity

Free allowance: The Activate Portfolio tier offers up to USD 200,000 in AWS Activate Credits for provider-backed startups.
Verdict: fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
Cost: free tier
Identity: institutionno card, no phone
Binding limit: write-gatedThe Activate Provider Org ID fails first: without a VC or accelerator that is a registered provider, no application can be submitted at all.
Evidence: documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	The Activate Portfolio tier offers up to USD 200,000 in AWS Activate Credits for provider-backed startups. Eligibility includes: associated with an Activate Provider and have their Organizational ID, not previously received AWS Activate Credits of equal or greater value, Pre-Series B with the most recent funding round in the last 12 months, a fully functioning company website, and founded in the past 10 years. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) The Activate Provider Org ID fails first: without a VC or accelerator that is a registered provider, no application can be submitted at all. source
Identity	institution Requires an Organizational ID issued by an Activate Provider, which is a VC, accelerator or startup organization. That is an investor relationship, not a document a user can produce alone.
Egress	not stated
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	USD 200,000 of AWS spend would cover a serious training or serving run for a year, and the credits apply to Bedrock third-party models. The chain breaks at the Org ID: it is issued by an investor, so it composes only for a company that has already raised.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Additional credits above USD 200,000 are stated to exist for AI startups, routed through an AWS account manager, which is a sales conversation rather than a program. The lifetime cap is unnamed on the page.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-ab	Portfolio tier offers up to USD 200,000 and requires an Activate Provider Organizational ID plus a funding round in the last 12 months, quoted
2026-10-22	aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/	the page names Andreessen Horowitz, Brex, Carta, Greylock, Sequoia and Y Combinator as Activate Providers, which is the class of entity that issues the Org ID, quoted

More fields 1

facets	`{"class": "startup-credit","free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit","shape": null}`

Unknown values 7

egress metered: egress metering was not published
egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field