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Claim Credits for Migration Program

The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) provides credits to offset the initial cost of migrations.
20 May 2026 by
Tony FinOps

Claim Credits for Migration Program

The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program. Through MAP, you can build strong AWS cloud foundations, accelerate and reduce risk, and offset the initial cost of migrations.You can receive AWS Credits during the migration by tagging your impacted resources.


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How to identify?

  • Look at your Migration Plan contract to see terms and conditions. You should see a Credit Percentage (MAP Services Formula), e.g. 20%, eligible to specific services, e.g. EC2.
  • Tag your migrated resources with the correct value, e.g. map-migrated = mig00000000.
  • Wait until you reach the minimum threshold, e.g. 20K.
  • The Credits should be automatically added to your account.
  • There is also a maximum amount, e.g. 100K and a duration for the MAP, e.g. 2 years.

How to fix?


  • Tag your resources directly on your IAC tool with tag map-migrated and correct value.
  • Use Tag Editor directly in AWS Console to tag the rest of untagged resources.
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