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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by avip on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:42AM (#16457901)
Every startup I know got 100-500K$ in aws credits so your "short freebie phase" is dead long in practice.
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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by avip on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:52AM (#16458678)
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someone asked me on PM how to get your hands on that pile of virtual cash. I'm no expert on that, and likely YMMV, but for us, we basically called account managers in the big 3 (GCP, aws, azure) and went shopping. With some PR visibility (i.e seed, some stupid "innovation reward", I guess any alternative empty proof of existence applies), we got offers (in the 50-500K range).

The way I see it, that's the de-facto standard - launch a VC funded startup, and cloud providers will align next your door to shell credits on your head.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by mrep on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:48PM (#16461366)
Y combinator startup benefits: "We have deals of varying degrees of formality with many companies in the technology world either to give free services or special access to YC-funded startups. Deals range from $500,000 in cloud hosting credits from Microsoft Azure to 60% off Optimizely’s A/B testing plans." [0]

Google also has a dedicated page where they partner with a bunch of VC's [1].

[0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#connections

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

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