{"id":324,"date":"2017-11-09T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.56.116.192\/?p=324"},"modified":"2022-01-17T19:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:38:03","slug":"charities-build-your-it-infrastructure-free-on-amazon-web-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Charities! Build your IT infrastructure FREE on Amazon Web Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/18.133.192.31\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/aws.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-328\" src=\"http:\/\/18.133.192.31\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/aws.png\" alt=\"amazon web services\" width=\"285\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>There is quite a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tt-exchange.org\/product\/8256\/amazon-web-services-credits\"> big offer <\/a>available to charities at the moment from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud based IT services arm of the retail giant through the software &#8216;donation&#8217; site Tech Trust or tt-exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In fact you could build your organisation a cloud based IT infrastructure with remote desktop server, webserver, database engines and cloud storage and still have free credit left over.<\/p>\n<p>For \u00a3142 plus VAT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tt-exchange.org\/getting_started\/eligibility-criteria\">eligible charities\u00a0<\/a>get $2000 credit with AWS to use on their storage, computing and database products and it is renewable each year. Now my own experience with a charity client that successfully moved their remote desktop server onto AWS a year ago and also uses their cloud storage &#8211; their bills will be completely covered by this offer. Needless to say, they&#8217;ve applied.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also the way that this resource can be quickly used to create a trial application or to work out some new infrastructure without having to buy lots of kit where AWS excels even before this offer. You pay for what you use.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that Amazon have a way of avoiding paying tax to the countries where they operate and AWS is part of that. So this is them giving to charity. If you can stomach that&#8230; dig in.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, from what I&#8217;ve found out so far, this offer doesn&#8217;t extend to other businesses selling value added products for AWS through the AWS marketplace &#8211; but I think all pure AWS products are included)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is quite a big offer available to charities at the moment from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud based IT services arm of the retail giant through the software &#8216;donation&#8217; site Tech Trust or tt-exchange. In fact you could build your organisation a cloud based IT infrastructure with remote desktop server, webserver, database engines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pipal.net\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charities! Build your IT infrastructure FREE on Amazon Web Services<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}