Glossary term
What is Credit?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Credit" means: Money AWS gives you to spend on services, which is used up before your card is charged on a paid plan. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Budget, EC2 instance, Shared responsibility model and AMI.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Credit?
Money AWS gives you to spend on services, which is used up before your card is charged on a paid plan.
Where is Credit taught?
Credit is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover Credit?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 3.4: Watch your spend: budgets, alerts and cost tools
Which terms are related to Credit?
Next to Credit in the course glossaries: Budget, EC2 instance, Shared responsibility model, AMI, Least privilege, Savings Plan, Policy and Spot Instance.
BudgetEC2 instanceShared responsibility modelAMILeast privilegeSavings PlanPolicySpot Instance
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Credit?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.