routing.live · for startups·15 regions·v2026.4/for/startup

AWS for the next 100x —with the credits founders don't hear about.

We get early-stage teams the credit applications nobody told them about (up to $150K), set up a production account, and stay out of your team's way. No 3-month procurement. No $50K minimums. No discovery-roadmap theater.

credits at stakeup to $150K
kicked off within< 24h
cost to you$0
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routing → score · region · stack · stage
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matched today7
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live · partner-only credit tracks active
we actually build for early-stage
No procurement loopNo $50K minimumNo discovery theater
I the situation

You're burning runway. Cloud is in the way.

Three patterns show up in about 80% of the startup inquiries we get. If any of these sound like you, the credits + setup motion is the cleanest path out.

01

No DevOps hire yet, but production needs to be production.

Your engineers are shipping product, not babysitting servers. You need someone who can stand up a real AWS account — networking, access control, monitoring, backups, runbooks — without you in every Slack thread.

02

Heroku/Vercel margins are eating your margin.

You're paying 4–8x what AWS would cost at your scale. The math is obvious; execution is the hard part. Most teams stall here for a year because nobody has the bandwidth.

03

Eligible for credits, but nobody told you which track.

There's a public AWS credit page. Then there are the tracks AWS doesn't advertise — bigger ceilings, but you can't access them without the right relationship in place. Most founders never see those.

II the actual money

The credit tracks AWS doesn't put on the front page.

There's the public credit page (the one that caps at $1K–$5K self-serve). And then there are the bigger tracks — different forms, bigger ceilings, approved faster when the right people are on the other side. That's us.

Self-serveapply yourself · low ceiling, fast
$1K – $5K
Founders trackwe apply for you · approved in days
$5K – $25K
Portfolio-stack (VC-backed)investor combo · biggest unlock
$50K – $100K
AI workload creditson top of base · for AI workloads
+$10K – $50K
Stacked ceilingbase + portfolio + AI · realistic max
up to $150K
how it actually lands

We file the application. You write 4 sentences about your company, send a deck, and the credits land in your AWS account. Total founder time: ~30 minutes across two weeks.

IV genai · bedrock · claude

Want to use Claude on AWS? There's credit money for that.

Most AI teams pay OpenAI direct, watch the bill grow, and don't realize AWS has a separate credit pool we can unlock for AI workloads. We set up Claude on AWS with a credit-funded prototype budget — usually $10K–$50K of inference money on top of your base credits.

/bedrock · claude · anthropiclive
  • 01Claude on AWS — same model, AWS billing, AWS access control
  • 02Switch between Claude and other AI models under one AWS endpoint
  • 03Document search + retrieval pipelines — credit-eligible storage
  • 04Quality checks + monitoring before you put it in front of users
V apply

Ready when you are.

Tell us what you're building. We figure out which credit programs you qualify for and submit the applications. No technical knowledge needed.

apply now

Apply in 90 seconds.Up to $150K. Free.

  • 60-second qualifier
    tell us what you're building — no technical questions, no AWS knowledge needed
  • 24-hour reply
    a real person reviews it and gets back to you the next business day
  • $0 to you, forever
    no setup fee, no platform fee, no surprise invoice — the credits land in your AWS account
Apply now no obligation · no AWS knowledge required
VI a recent match

What this looks like when it works.

inquiry · series-a health-tech

Series-A health-tech, 14 engineers, $4K/mo on Heroku, 6-week pilot deadline

→ challenge

Hitting Heroku platform limits. Needed HIPAA-aware AWS setup before a hospital pilot launched. No internal cloud lead. CTO had spoken to AWS sales and bounced — too slow, too generic.

→ outcome

Production AWS account live in 9 days. $80K in credits secured (covered the next 14 months of inference + storage). Heroku bill → $0 by month 2. Pilot launched on time.

Total founder time: ~6 hours across 5 weeks.
VIII tell us about your stack

90 seconds. Three steps. Real reply within 24h.

We use this to route you to the right partner — and to flag credit eligibility before the discovery call. Form fields are kept; you're not in a CRM the moment you start typing.

01Stack
02Sizing
03Contact
step 01 · stack

Where are you running today, and where are you in the journey?

We don't sell your contact info. AWS funds your partner · partner pays us · you pay $0.
IX faq

Things founders ask.

How fast does this actually go?

You fill the form, we kick off within 24h. Discovery call inside 2 business days. A small build is in production within 2 weeks; a migration is 6–12 weeks. The credit application runs in parallel and lands typically inside 2 weeks.

How do the credits actually get to my AWS account?

We file the application directly with AWS — you don't go through the public credit form. AWS reviews, approves, and applies the credits as a balance on your AWS account. They burn down as you incur charges. Total founder paperwork: ~30 minutes.

Wait — this is actually free for me? What's the catch?

Yes, free. You get the credits + the setup + the migration work + zero invoices from us. The "catch" is that we work with credit-eligible startups, not arbitrary projects — so we qualify the fit before kickoff. If you're a fit, $0 to you.

I'm not on AWS yet. Does this still work?

Yes — that's often the cleanest case. A fresh AWS setup is our sweet spot, and you start with the credit buffer instead of paying for trial-and-error. Most "I'm not on AWS yet" inquiries are kicked off the same day because the path is simpler.

What if the engagement isn't a fit?

Tell us. We adjust or hand off. We track our own performance per engagement — repeated misses kill the model, so we stay honest about scope.

What's the catch on the credits?

There isn't one for you. AWS funds the credit pool because they want startups on AWS long-term. The "catch" is that the bigger tracks aren't self-serve — you need the right relationship to file, and that's exactly what we solve. We file; you get credits.

AWS for startups — the credits, the setup, the build · CloudRoute