Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Earning additional credits

For new Amazon customers, you can earn an additional USD $100 in credits regardless of your account plan. You can also earn credits by completing activities. These activities assist your learning of Amazon Web Services services. You can find the activities in the Explore Amazon widget on your Amazon Web Services Console Home dashboard.

Launch an instance using Amazon EC2

Use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to create virtual machines, or instances, that run on the Amazon cloud. In this activity, you will learn how to quickly get started by launching an instance in a server. You also learn how to clean up your instances.

To learn more about Amazon EC2, see the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Documentation.

Use a foundational model in the Amazon Bedrock playground

Use Amazon Bedrock to access a wide range of foundation model from leading AI companies. You can generate different types of output including texts, images, videos, and embedding output through a unified API. In this activity, you will choose a model and submit a prompt to generate a response in the Amazon Bedrock playground.

To learn more about Amazon Bedrock, see the Amazon Bedrock Documentation.

Set up a cost budget using Amazon Budgets

Use Amazon Budgets to set a budget that alerts you when you exceed, or are forecasted to exceed, your budgeted cost or usage amount. In this activity, you create a cost budget to monitor your Amazon cost and usage.

To learn more about Amazon Budgets, see the Amazon Budgets Documentation.

Create a web app using Amazon Lambda

Use Amazon Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers. In this activity, you will learn how to build a simple web app consisting of a Lambda function with a function URL.

To learn more about Amazon Lambda, see Amazon Lambda Documentation.

Create an Amazon RDS database

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a fully managed database service that simplify setup, operation, and scaling of relational databases in the cloud. In this activity you will launch an Amazon RDS or Aurora database and explore basic configuration options. You will learn the essential settings you need to set up and manage your database.

To learn more about Amazon RDS, see Amazon Relational Database Service Documentation.