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Cloud & Infrastructure Startup Perks

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Cloud & Infrastructure

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Cloud platforms

Credits and discounts for the major cloud providers — AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM, DigitalOcean, and more.

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Databases

Managed database credits across SQL, NoSQL, vector, time-series, and streaming platforms.

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Networking & security

Network performance, DDoS protection, firewall, and global traffic management credits for production-grade infrastructure.

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Serverless & hosting

Deploy and host your applications without managing infrastructure — credits for serverless, edge, and PaaS platforms.

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Storage & CDN

Object storage, backup, and content delivery network credits to keep your data fast, safe, and affordable.

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Cloud & Infrastructure Startup Programs

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QuickNode

3 months free Build Plan with QuickNode for Startups

QuickNode

As the leading end-to-end web3 developer platform, QuickNode is transforming blockchain infrastructure and tooling by simplifying development and providing high-performance access to every major chain and network.

Startupsmicrosoft

Free Azure credits and dev tools with Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

Startupsmicrosoft

Microsoft for Startups supports all Founders from Idea to Exit and is now accepting founders everywhere, no funding is required. The platform provides founders with free resources to solve startup challenges. The platform enables startups to unlock the technology and support required to scale a company from inception to growth stage.

DigitalOcean

Free cloud credits with DigitalOcean Hatch — direct tier

DigitalOcean

Hatch is DigitalOcean's global startup program to help startups grow and build in the cloud. Spend less time worrying about cloud infrastructure and more time building great things with up to $1,000 of credits to build and grow your cloud infrastructure.

Google Cloud

Free cloud credits with Google Cloud for Startups

Google Cloud

This perk offers up to $100,000 in credits to use with Google Cloud during your first year and 20% of your usage covered during your second year, up to an additional $100,000.

Ibm

Free cloud credits with IBM Startup Program

Ibm

IBM helps startups at every stage of their journey. With access to IBM’s secure and open hybrid cloud platform (including Red Hat OpenShift), startups are able to build with up to $120,000 in IBM Cloud credits.

Dell

Hardware discounts with Dell for Startups

Dell

Dell for Startups works with startups hoping to grow and scale through working with technology products and solutions in their startup.

Cloudflare

Free cloud credits with Cloudflare for Startups

Cloudflare

Cloudflare for Startups provides early-stage companies with up to $250,000 in enterprise credits covering Workers, CDN, DDoS protection, AI gateway, databases, and more.

Partner Network
Vercel

Free cloud credits with Vercel for Startups

Vercel

Vercel gives qualifying startups $3,000 in platform credits to deploy and scale frontend applications — the go-to hosting platform for Next.js, React, and modern web frameworks.

Partner Network
Supabase

Free Postgres credits with Supabase for Startups

Supabase

Supabase for Startups gives early-stage companies startup-friendly credits and onboarding support for the full Supabase platform — Postgres database, auth, storage, edge functions, and realtime.

DigitalOcean

Free cloud credits with DigitalOcean Hatch — partner tier

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Hatch gives partner-referred startups $20,000 in credits (12 months) — 20× more than the direct tier — plus 15 months free Standard support, connections to DO PMs and engineers, and a welcome kit including Segment and HubSpot credits.

Partner Network
Neon

Free Postgres credits with Neon for Startups

Neon

Neon Startup Program gives qualifying early-stage companies up to $100,000 in Neon credits over 12 months — the serverless Postgres database platform with instant branching; autoscaling to zero; and native CI/CD integration.

Pinecone

Free vector database credits with Pinecone Startup Program

Pinecone

Pinecone for Startups provides early-stage AI teams with vector database credits — the purpose-built vector DB powering semantic search, RAG pipelines, and AI-native applications at scale.

Render

Free cloud hosting with Render for Startups — base tier

Render

Render for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies credits and access to the Render cloud platform — the modern hosting alternative to Heroku for web services, databases, and background workers.

Oracle

Free cloud credits with Oracle for Startups

Oracle

Oracle for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free Oracle Cloud Infrastructure credits, enterprise-grade software, and access to Oracle's global partner ecosystem — with no equity taken.

Backblaze

Free cloud storage credits with Backblaze for Startups

Backblaze

Backblaze Flamethrower gives qualifying early-stage startups up to $100,000 in cloud storage credits — simple, affordable S3-compatible object storage without surprise bills or vendor lock-in.

Netlify

Funding and advisory support with Netlify Jamstack Fund

Netlify

The Netlify Jamstack Innovation Fund provides early-stage startups building on Jamstack architecture with funding; advisory services; and ecosystem support - helping companies fuel the next generation of the composable web.

MongoDB

Free Atlas credits and AI tokens with MongoDB for Startups

MongoDB

MongoDB for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free MongoDB Atlas credits; Voyage AI tokens; one-on-one technical advice; and co-marketing opportunities - built on the worlds most popular NoSQL database.

Alibabacloud

Free cloud credits with Alibaba Cloud Startup Program

Alibabacloud

Alibaba Cloud gives qualifying early-stage startups up to $50000 in cloud credits; technical support; co-marketing opportunities; and access to Alibaba global investor and partner networks.

Aiven

Free managed cloud data credits with Aiven for Startups

Aiven

Aiven Cluster gives qualifying early-stage startups up to $10000 in cloud data infrastructure credits — managed open-source services for Postgres; Kafka; Redis; OpenSearch; Cassandra; and more with no DevOps overhead.

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Confluent

Free streaming platform credits with Confluent for Startups

Confluent

Confluent for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies up to $20000 in Confluent Cloud credits and one year of technical support — the fully managed Apache Kafka service for real-time data streaming at scale.

Partner Network
Wiz

50% off cloud security bundle with Wiz Go

Wiz

Wiz Go gives qualifying startups 50% off the Wiz cloud security bundle — covering cloud; code; runtime; and AI environments with full visibility and protection built for fast-moving teams.

Airbyte

Free data integration credits with Airbyte for Startups

Airbyte

Airbyte for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies up to $75000 in Airbyte Cloud credits — the open-source data integration platform for building ELT pipelines between 300+ sources and any destination.

Appwrite

Free cloud backend credits with Appwrite for Startups

Appwrite

Appwrite for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $20000 in Appwrite Cloud credits — the open-source backend platform providing authentication; databases; storage; functions; and messaging in one unified API.

Pulumi

Startup discount on infrastructure-as-code with Pulumi for Startups

Pulumi

Pulumi for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies a significant discount on the Pulumi Cloud platform — the leading Infrastructure as Code tool letting teams provision cloud infrastructure using real programming languages.

Redis

12 months free and cloud credits with Redis Launchpad

Redis

Redis for Startups gives qualifying venture-backed pre-seed and seed companies $10000 in Redis credits; 12 months free Redis Cloud; early access to new features; dedicated technical support; and go-to-market opportunities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Free cloud credits with AWS Activate — Founders tier

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Activate Founders gives any self-serve startup $1000 in AWS credits — no partner affiliation required. Apply directly at aws.amazon.com/activate.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Free cloud credits with AWS Activate — Portfolio tier

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Activate Portfolio gives startups affiliated with an approved AWS partner accelerator or VC $5000 in AWS credits; plus AWS Support plan credits and architecture guidance.

Partner Network
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Free cloud credits with AWS Activate — Portfolio+ tier

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Activate Portfolio+ gives startups in select top-tier AWS partner organisations up to $100000 in AWS credits — the highest tier of AWS Activate for high-growth startups.

Partner Network
Google Cloud

Free cloud credits with Google Cloud for Startups — Start

Google Cloud

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

Google Cloud

Free cloud credits with Google Cloud for Startups — Scale

Google Cloud

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

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Google Cloud

Free cloud credits with Google Cloud for Startups — Scale AI-first

Google Cloud

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

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Google Cloud

Custom cloud support with Google Cloud for Startups — Series B+

Google Cloud

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

Render

Free cloud hosting with Render for Startups — Scale funded tier

Render

Render's Scale tier gives funded startups with over $1M raised and top-tier VC backing $25,000 in cloud hosting credits valid for 12 months.

Partner Network
Render

Free cloud hosting with Render for Startups — Scale AI tier

Render

Render's Scale AI tier gives AI and compute-intensive startups with over $2.5M raised up to $100,000 in cloud hosting credits — one of the highest non-hyperscaler credit amounts available to early-stage AI companies.

Partner Network
Render

Free cloud hosting with Render for Startups — Build tier

Render

Render's Build tier gives partner-affiliated startups $5,000 in cloud hosting credits — covering web services, databases, background workers, cron jobs, and persistent processes. A great Heroku alternative with stateful-by-default architecture.

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Render

Free cloud hosting with Render for Startups — Scale tier

Render

Render's Scale tier gives startups with under $1M raised and top-tier VC backing $10,000 in cloud hosting credits valid for 12 months.

Partner Network
Modal

Free serverless GPU compute with Modal for Startups

Modal

Modal for Startups gives qualifying early-stage AI companies $25000 in compute credits — the serverless cloud platform for deploying custom AI models and Python workloads with GPU acceleration; auto-scaling; and instant cold-start.

Cloudflare

Free cloud credits with Cloudflare for Startups — bootstrapped tier

Cloudflare

Cloudflare for Startups gives bootstrapped and stealth startups $5,000 in credits to build on the Cloudflare Developer Platform — covering Workers; R2 storage; KV; Durable Objects; Pages; and AI inference across 300+ global edge locations.

Cloudflare

Free cloud credits with Cloudflare for Startups — early-stage tier

Cloudflare

Cloudflare for Startups gives early-stage startups with up to $1M raised $25,000 in credits to build on the Cloudflare Developer Platform — covering Workers; R2; Durable Objects; Pages; AI inference; and more.

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Cloudflare

Free cloud credits with Cloudflare for Startups — seed-funded tier

Cloudflare

Cloudflare for Startups gives seed-funded startups with between $1M and $5M raised $100,000 in credits — accessing the full Cloudflare Developer Platform including Workers; R2; Durable Objects; Workers AI; and enterprise networking capabilities.

Funded
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Microsoft

Free Azure credits with Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub — investor-backed

Microsoft

Microsoft for Startups Investor Network gives VC-backed startups up to $150,000 in Azure credits — plus GitHub; Microsoft 365; OpenAI API credits; and dedicated technical support — for startups backed by a participating investor or accelerator in the Microsoft for Startups Investor Network.

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DigitalOcean

Free cloud credits with DigitalOcean Hatch — AI/ML tier

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Hatch's AI/ML tier gives AI-focused startups up to $100,000 in compute credits plus preferred GPU Droplet pricing at $1.90/hr — making it one of the most accessible GPU compute programs for AI startups. Contact hatch@digitalocean.com for AI tier details.

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