A bit more of a niche deal that I got targeted with, Alibaba Cloud are offering 1 year Cloud Server for $0.99 (Location in Sydney/Frankfurt/Silicon Valley).
Likely trying to get uni students onto their platform (vs Azure/AWS etc.) while they're fairly agnostic.
Get Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) for only $0.99 for an entire year. That's up to $687.93 in savings. In addition, you can claim 10 training courses and receive 50GB/month data transfer voucher for 12 months.
- 2 Core CPU
- 4GB Memory
- 40GB Ultra Disk
- Linux OS
- 120,000 PPS
- 600GB Data Transfer
Courses are:
- Operate & Manage a Cloud Server
- Manage Object Storage on the Cloud
- Manage a Relational Database on the Cloud
- Migrate Data to Big Data Platform on the Cloud
- Scale Python on Cloud
- Process Structured Data with Python
- Cloud Platform Security Overview
- Secure Your Data on Alibaba Cloud
And I guess use your favourite cashback service (it may/may not) work for that 2.8% back.
That sounds like a great way for China to acquire cutting edge research on the cheap