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AWS credits arrive through several different programmes, and they are not all the same asset. Before you try to sell a balance, it is worth knowing which kind you hold, because that determines both what a buyer can do with it and whether a transfer is permitted at all.

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Which kind of AWS credit do you have?

These are issued under different terms, and the differences decide whether a sale is even possible.

AWS Activate credits
Granted through startup programmes and accelerators. Commonly the most restricted: many Activate grants exclude AWS Marketplace purchases, Reserved Instance upfront fees and Savings Plans commitments, which removes exactly the spend a large buyer would want to cover.
Promotional credits
Handed out at events, hackathons, migration programmes and via account teams. Governed by the AWS Promotional Credit Terms and Conditions, which is the document that actually restricts transfer and resale.
Private pricing and EDP commitments
A negotiated spend commitment is not a promotional credit, even though it shows up as a discount on your bill. These are contractual and cannot be handed to a third party. If your balance came out of an enterprise negotiation, talk to your account manager rather than a broker.

Where to check your balance

AWS Billing and Cost Management console → Credits. Each row shows the credit name, the amount remaining, the expiry date and the applicable services — note all four, not just the balance.

What moves the value of AWS credits

We do not publish a percentage, because there is no index price and anyone quoting one before seeing your listing is guessing. These are the factors that actually decide it.

  • Service eligibility

    An Activate credit restricted to EC2 and S3 is worth materially less than a general-purpose promotional credit of the same size, because a buyer can only apply it to a slice of their bill.

  • Marketplace and commitment exclusions

    Buyers with real scale usually want to cover Marketplace software or Savings Plans. Credits that exclude both are harder to place regardless of balance.

  • Time to expiry

    Credits apply automatically to eligible usage and cannot be held back or redirected, so a buyer has to be able to consume the balance before it lapses. Short runways compress value fast.

  • Account and Organization structure

    Whether a credit applies to a single linked account or across an AWS Organization changes which transfer arrangements are even mechanically possible.

  • AI service eligibility

    Buyers looking for AI spend specifically want credits that apply to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker. Many older promotional grants predate those services or exclude them, so a credit that covers only classic infrastructure is worth less to an AI buyer than its balance suggests. Check the applicable-services list for the AI services by name rather than assuming general eligibility covers them.

Check these before you talk to a buyer

  • The credit name and programme it came from, not just the dollar figure
  • Remaining balance rather than the original grant amount
  • Expiry date for each credit line separately — they often differ
  • Applicable services, and any exclusion of Marketplace, RIs or Savings Plans
  • Whether the credit sits on a standalone account or inside an Organization
  • What your own AWS agreement says before you talk to any buyer

Amazon Web Services’s own terms

Read these rather than taking our word for it. We do not guarantee that any credit is transferable, and your agreement with Amazon Web Services governs what you may do. The relevant wording is quoted and dated on our credit transfer rules page.

AWS credit questions

Are AWS credits transferable?

No. The AWS Promotional Credit Terms and Conditions say credits may not be sold, licensed, rented or otherwise transferred, and that promotional credit may be applied only to your own AWS account. They also state the credit has no cash value and is not redeemable for cash. So this is a prohibition rather than a gap to be drafted around, and they are certainly not a bearer instrument you can hand to someone else. What does sometimes happen is an arrangement around the account that holds the credits — an account transfer, or a managed-spend agreement where the buyer runs workloads through your account. Those are contractual arrangements between two parties rather than a credit transfer, and whether they are permitted depends on your agreement with AWS. Read it before you commit to anything, and treat anyone who tells you the balance itself can change hands as either mistaken or not dealing straight with you.

Can I sell AWS Activate credits?

Activate credits are usually the hardest to place. They tend to carry the tightest service restrictions, often excluding AWS Marketplace, Reserved Instance upfront fees and Savings Plans, which removes the spend most buyers actually want covered. They are also squarely within the promotional credit terms that restrict resale. We will still review an Activate balance and tell you honestly what we think, but a short-dated, service-restricted Activate grant is frequently not sellable, and we would rather say that up front than list it and waste your time.

What happens if AWS voids the credits after a sale?

The buyer is the one left holding nothing, which is precisely why buyers discount heavily for transferability risk and why any sensible arrangement is documented in writing. AWS can withdraw promotional credits if it concludes its terms were breached. Any agreement you sign should say explicitly what happens in that event — who bears the loss, and whether any payment is refundable. If a counterparty is reluctant to put that in writing, that tells you something.

Where do I find my remaining AWS credit balance?

Open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and go to Credits. You will see each credit as a separate row with its name, the amount remaining, its expiry date and the services it applies to. Record all four per row. Credits granted at different times usually expire at different times, so a single headline balance can hide the fact that most of it lapses next month.

Can an AWS credit expiry date be extended?

No. AWS states that it cannot extend the expiration date of AWS credits, including where a balance is left unused, and unused credit is simply forfeited when the date passes. That makes the expiry date the first thing to establish rather than the last: a buyer has to consume the balance within the window, and migrating a real workload takes planning, testing and cutover time that a short window does not leave room for. If most of your balance lapses within a month or two, the honest answer is usually that there is no realistic route, and we would rather tell you that than let you wait on an introduction that cannot land in time.

What are Amazon AI credits, and can I sell them?

There is no separate Amazon AI credit product. When people search for Amazon AI credits they nearly always mean AWS credits that can be spent on Amazon's AI services — principally Amazon Bedrock, which serves foundation models including Anthropic's Claude, and Amazon SageMaker for training and hosting your own. So the question is not whether you hold an AI credit but whether the AWS credit you hold lists those services as eligible. Check the applicable-services column in the Credits console for Bedrock and SageMaker by name. The same promotional credit terms prohibit sale and transfer either way, so eligibility affects what a balance is worth to an AI buyer, not whether it can be sold.

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