Clarification Needed on AWS Batch Coverage Under AWS Activate Credits

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Hello folks!

In the Activate Credit documents, some services are clearly excluded from coverage, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, AWS Managed Services, and Ineligible AWS Support, among others.

Additionally, the documents mention that "For information regarding eligible and ineligible services, please visit the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions and the AWS Activate Terms & Conditions. Any other service not listed in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console is not covered by AWS Activate Credits."

I reviewed these documents and noticed that AWS Batch is not listed as excluded. However, when checking the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console, I did not find AWS Batch listed separately; instead, I found Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Is AWS Batch considered part of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud? Since AWS Batch utilizes multiple compute instances and functions as an orchestrator, I would like clarification on whether AWS Batch is covered by AWS credits or if only individual EC2 instances are covered. The naming is somewhat confusing.

Could you please provide guidance on this matter?

Thank you

AWS Support - Brian · Answer

Hello,

I can certainly understand the confusion this has caused, the follow page should clarify this for you:

[AWS Batch Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/batch/pricing/)

As you will see on that page, there is no cost for AWS Batch itself. You pay for the resources you use to store and run your application. Discounts and credits will apply to applicable resources.

If you have further questions you can use the "Request a pricing quote" from that page. You will be able to explain your use case and get a detailed pricing quote from our sales team.

— Brian D.

KindfulCloud · Answer

Thank you, Brian!

This document mentions that 'AWS **Managed Services**' is not covered by AWS Activate credits:
https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/

At the top of this page, I see it mentioned that "AWS Batch is a fully **managed** batch computing **service**":
https://aws.amazon.com/batch/

What raises concern is if AWS Batch provisions resources such as EC2 instances and storage, will these provisioned resources be considered **managed services** or not, and will they be covered by Activate credits?

Thank you for your assistance.

Clarification Needed on AWS Batch Coverage Under AWS Activate Credits

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