Do we have credit from AWS?

Part 1 (2018)
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I use AWS for the deep learning projects. I thought that I have credit from fast.ai, but recently AWS charged $$ from my credit card.

Billing location: aws.amazon.co, WA
Category: Other Business/OfficePurchase
Mode: Manually Entered

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If you go to Billing Dashboard -> Credits, it will show you if you have credits left. AWS Credits was through a Promo code that they provided at the beginning of the course. So I am assuming that you submitted your information then and applied the $500 credit to your account.

You can also go to Billing Dashboard -> Bills to Look at Cost breakdown.

Finally, I would suggest you go to Billing Dashboard -> Budgets and setup an Notification once certain threshold is reached.

If you have run out of credits, then Paperspace might also be a good option. Check in the forums on how you might be able to setup a Fastai machine in paperspace or Crestle.

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This is informative. I’ve run aws for 55+ hours.

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Thank you for your reply. I do provide my AWS ID at the beginning of the course. That is why I am asking why the $500 credit is not applied to my account.

So How can I get credit? Do you know the promo code for AWS?

Thank you in Advance!

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The process is, AWS provided Promo code that you would need to enter in your AWS Account before it will take effect. It’s not automatic. I would suggest you check this thread ($500 AWS credits for each student!) to see if you can find your promo code in the linked Google Sheet.

If you don’t see a code with your name / AWS id, it might be late to get the credits. You might want to consider Paperspace.com or Crestle.com as they are cheaper but equivalent options with pre-installed fastai. There are separate threads that talk how to set them up.

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Thank you @ramesh.

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I used the promo code and was hit with an expensive bill for the month of November so I probably didn’t do it right (I vaguely recall typing it into a textbox while requesting my instance from Amazon back in late October). I think maybe the promo isn’t for international students? But I later argued for a reduction in my bill. Mostly because when I use the console to shutdown my instance, it doesn’t actually do it. Many times, even after saying “Yes, I really want to shut down my instance”, I have to do it again. So there were a times early on when I had my instance running for days.

Anyway, Amazon was really understanding when I talked to them about my misunderstanding and confusion around the shutdown process, so maybe others hit with surprising bills can do so as well. I’m now looking into using Crestle.

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I entered my AWS account info in “$500 AWS credits for each student!” thread, but today when I was trying to check the Google Sheet again to see if a discount code is available, I found this thread is no longer available. Can someone help to post the Google Sheet address again?

Thanks in advance!

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Just want to double confirm.

Is the promotional credit still available (Today is March of 2018) ?

If available, how to get the promotional code ?

Thanks in advance !

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Is this credit still available now (April 2018)? Or is there any other cloud GPU credits in this scale we can use for fast.ai? (Not the $15 credit from Paperspace)