Where the $200 comes from, the five $20 activities in the order that wastes least, what Claude actually costs on Bedrock, and eleven ordinary jobs costed against those rates

The companion to the reel. A new AWS account gets $100 in credits immediately and can earn up to $100 more, which is up to $200 over six months — and Amazon Bedrock, where Anthropic's Claude models live, is one of the services those credits spend on. PAGE 1 — the offer in Amazon's own words, the three source links, and the six steps to claim it (including the one activity to do first because it protects everything else). PAGE 2 — the five credit-earning activities with what each one actually is, what it pays, and the order that wastes the fewest credits; one of the five is literally submitting a prompt to a model in the Bedrock playground. PAGE 3 — the real Anthropic on-demand rates on Bedrock (Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 5, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 5, Fable 5.1, per million tokens in and out), the meter worked out line by line, and three ways to make the credits go further (cache reads at a tenth of the input rate, batch at half rate, right-size the model). PAGE 4 — eleven ordinary jobs costed on Claude Sonnet 5 with the token assumptions printed next to each one, from a $0.010 email reply to a $0.18 agent run, and how many of each $200 buys; plus the eight-line call that prints your own token usage, and the ten-minute budget alarm. PAGE 5 — seven catches, each quoted: the card at sign-up that is not charged on the free plan, the account that closes itself at six months, the 90-day data window, the separate 12-month credit clock, the activities that spend credits while paying more back, Bedrock yes but AgentCore no, and the model access you must request before your first call. PAGE 6 — the proof checklist. Every AWS figure is quoted from the page it names, read September 16, 2026; the job costs are our arithmetic on Amazon's printed per-token rates. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Amazon Web Services or Anthropic.

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