[Someone1234]

It is worth noting that both products have had "student" tiers or similar, that had fixed credit limits with a cliff.

Therefore, they've implemented hard-limits. So not offering hard-limits is a business decision, NOT a technical one. They're essentially hiding functionality they have.

Make of that as you will. Anyone justifying it, should be me with skepticism.

[akdev1l]

I have never heard of nor seen AWS student accounts.

There is a free tier but that varies per service and anyway will not limit anything. It works as if it just gives you some credit to offset the costs.

[Someone1234]

AWS Educate "Starter" Accounts were exactly that[0]. It didn't ask for, nor need a Credit Card, and there was functionally no way to exceed.

[0] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cloud-computing/aws-educate-st...

They also offered (may still offer) the same thing with AWS Academy.