Now I know this slide looks familiar, because I've shown it to you. This is the third time now, there's a reason. Okay? And the reason is most people who build platforms or apps, they really forget about this stuff. They forget about the fact that you really have to use Amazon AWS to scale your service or your product or your app. You can use Rackspace, you can use some Heroku.
You can use other platforms. I'm not saying you have to use Amazon AWS, it's just in my experience, they offer one of the better services and you do get one year free. So by doing a search on Google for Amazon AWS startup promo you click on startups, and you'll find that even says it benefits of building and scaling your startup on AWS. I do believe startups get special programs and perks. So let's go to AWS activate. If you are in an accelerator or an incubator, you do get a lot of promotional credit.
I actually have used various credits. You also I'm pretty sure that if you if you don't do this activate part and you just sign up as a startup, I believe you do get a one year free using the Amazon server. So definitely keep that in mind that you get one year free. Or if you do AWS activate and your with an accelerator or incubator like you know, if you go to a university or college and they have a built an incubator, which most colleges do, you can sign up for this and you won't have to pay for Amazon for up to two years, which is amazing. That means you'll be able to test your product for two years without paying $15,000. So that's why I always recommend AWS three layers of security.
You know, there are things called SQL injections and you know malware and all these other things. You need to protect the data on your database. You can't let people you hear these stories online of you know, Yahoo lost a billion email addresses and iCloud being hacked and people's phones being hacked and You know, people's personal data is being spread out to the world and on WikiLeaks and everything. You don't want to be one of those companies, you have to protect it. And you also have to build a database and an infrastructure that is scalable beyond the million users. I can't tell you how many times startups build an app or build a website or build a platform or whatever they build, and it starts to crash.
Once they get a lot of users, you have to make sure that it's modular, scalable, and that it can handle the influx of users. This is what scaling is, is making sure that you can handle you know, like Facebook has 1.2 billion users. How do they handle it? Maybe you know, you can one of these days you can do what they did. They built roomful of servers, you know, and they have their own servers and their own their own engineers to handle those servers and that way they can they can handle the bandwidth