Ask HN: 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.
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)
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)