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📣 jacAtSea

How to get free/cheap Claude and AWS credits


Hi Laid off, took a gap year and now trying to get back into the field to want to do a side project with Python/Java + Claude Code + Cloud(AWS, GCP, Azure) Is there a way to get free or cheap Claude and AWS credits ? I am willing to working on volunteer project.

Thanks

  👤 jacAtSea Accepted Answer ✓
More context: I was a 60% Data Engineer and 40% back eng engineer.

The job ads now ask for cloud computing, I did on-perm with similar components but built in house.

Step Functions Glue Athena S3 RDS

Databrick GCP Snowflake

I am looking at ways to 'modernize' 'cloudifly' myself

This is chatgpt suggestions: Step 3: Your FIRST project (this is the breakthrough) Project: “Cloud Data Pipeline” (must-do) What you build: Pull financial data (API) Store in S3 Process with Python Schedule with Airflow Load into warehouse (Redshift or PostgreSQL) Architecture (simple) API → Python → S3 → Airflow → DB → (optional dashboard)

👤 uberman
The university I work with offers claude free to students. If you had a class you wanted to take perhaps there might be a similar opportunity