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Re:Hackathon DevOps 101 by z1mm32m4n on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:32PM (#10000357)
It may very well be. But does it matter? As a hackathon organizer/mentor, these are exactly the resources I'd recommend. Publicity by providing a service is not a new concept; I really enjoy this post about it in particular:

http://blog.crew.co/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup/

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Re:Hackathon DevOps 101 by logane on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @03:24PM (#10005625)
I don't think that post is the same situation at all - there, Crew made side projects that became popular and then received traffic from them. Here, corporate sponsors skew which tools a ChallengePost employee recommends for hackers - some of which I personally believe are not at all good tools for the listed jobs (S3 for static website hosting??).
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Re:Hackathon DevOps 101 by nealrs on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:30PM (#10007566)
OP here. Some of the tools are related to clients / hackathon sponsors - but most aren't. And s3 is an excellent tool for static site hosting. You can add cloudfront in a snap, it's stupid cheap, and you can deploy from the command line ( https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website is awesome for this.)

Also, I've actually used _all_ of these tools before, both for personal & hackathon projects. I know they work.

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