Hey I might need one of these to host a few nodes. Do you know if these credits apply for the VPS that they provide that you can rent.
The Windows / Ubuntu servers?
I think Amazon calls them Instances.
The thing you are talking about is AWS EC2 [ ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD ] and yes all the credits i am selling can use this service , no restrictions . But before you proceed to purchase i want to make things clear please read and understand my terms and amazon terms for any future conflict . Specially Amazon Educate codes are account ID specific and has risk of being revoked in future by Amazon not necessarily it must but it can . So before you purchase please do read and understand all the terms i mentioned . Thanks for your interest in my service
Yeah I did read some threads about these and it seems that its against their rules to sell those codes and to buy these codes. I got an account in good standing and don't want to get it risk at being flagged and shutdown.
Thanks anyways for your reply.
Your account wouldn't be shut down, you don't need to worry about that. If Amazon finds out you are using these codes they will remove them from your account so you couldn't use them to pay for the expenses you accrued. Even removed they will still count as for the redeemable limit (i.e. 4 EDU codes from the same event per AWS account), though, so if you already maxed the limit you can't buy them again and redeem them again anymore. Also, Amazon may "flag" your account, meaning if you redeem some EDU codes again the chance of them being discovered and removed may be higher. If Amazon doesn't notice before the invoice is issued (usually on the 3rd day of the following month) then your codes will be used to pay your bill and you are off the hook.
Oficially, the codes should cover only the expenses you accrued after you redeemed the codes, but usually (not always!) they do retroactively affect also the expenses you accrued anytime within the given month, so one strategy could be to redeem the codes just before the month is over which gives Amazon the least time to react. I wouldn't rely on it too much, though, as exactly for this reason they are known to check the accounts just before the month ends.
Just because using these codes is risky doesn't mean they are unusable. There are scenarioes where these codes are just perfect, regardless of whether they are wiped out later or not. Please don't ask for details, you need to figure it out yourself.