We started because a training run cost more than the salary of the person who wrote it
AWSCreditShop exists because compute pricing quietly decides which ideas get built and which get abandoned. We think that is a worse outcome than it needs to be.
The invoice that started it
In 2024 two of us were contracting for a small team fine-tuning a model. The engineering was fine. The bill was not. A fortnight of experiments produced an AWS invoice larger than a month of the engineer’s salary, and the project was shelved — not because it did not work, but because nobody could justify the next round.
That is a stupid reason to kill a good idea, and it happens constantly. So we went and learned how credit actually moves through this market, and we started selling it — properly verified, with the expiry terms written down, and with an unusual policy: we tell people when they should not buy.
Most sellers in this niche will happily put a $25,000 credit tier in front of someone hosting a blog. We will not. It costs us margin every week and it is the only reason anyone comes back.
Credit delivered
Median delivery
Countries served
Support coverage
Three rules we do not bend
Expiry in writing
Every credit tier’s expiry terms are stated before you pay. A balance you cannot spend in time is not a discount and we will not sell it as one.
Verify before listing
Identity and billing checks are finished before an account is offered. We would rather hold stock than ship something unfinished.
Recommend downward
If a $30 compute account beats a $499 credit tier for your workload, we say so. Losing one sale beats losing a customer.
What we are, and are not
We are an independent reseller. We are not affiliated with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, DigitalOcean, Hetzner or Akamai, and we do not claim to be. Anyone describing themselves as an “official partner” while quietly reselling accounts is worth a second look.
Buying credit lowers what you pay for compute. It does not change your obligations. You remain responsible for operating inside each platform’s terms of service and for whatever you choose to run. We put that on every product page too, because it matters more than it markets.
Not sure which tier — or whether you need one?
Tell us your monthly burn. We will do the arithmetic with you, including the version where you buy nothing.