Of course I am planning on using all my credits and then I am planning on paying for AWS out of my own pocket, but that is not the point. I would be happy to use the AWS credits that I got to help others.
The problem is - and I have given this a lot of thought - that there is not a whole lot I can do with my credits to help you that makes sense. I could outline the both technical and logistical / time management reasons why I feel strongly this is the case, but it would turn this into a very long post. You can trust however that I have given this a lot of thought and have both yours and mine best interest in mind as I type these words.
Having said that, here is imho how this should look:
If you have a debit / credit card you can use with AWS and can spend 2.75$ dollars a week on this course, please follow these setup instructions. This buys you 10 p2.xlarge instance hours at ~22.5 cents per hour and pays for the 20 GB of persistent storage at 2$ per month. If this is an option available to you than my advice would be to take it and we need to get on with our lives.
If for some reason the above option is not available to you, please apply for AWS credits through AWS Educate or though the Github program (can someone provide a link to that please?). This will give you, in the worst case scenario 30$, and some people report getting 150$, it also gets better if you have a student ID which dovetails nicely with one of the reasons AWS credits might be needed in the first place. Once this happens and you follow advice from this thread and the thread I link to at the bottom of this post, you are set.
If for some reasons neither of the options is available to you, then post in this thread or PM me directly - I will do what I can to figure out a way to get you through this course.
Side Note: There is one other thing you could do to get the most utility out of your AWS credits / personal money - you can read my take on this in this post.