So to activate AWS Educate you'll need to do this:
1. Get verified (which even though I had an .edu email took 2 weeks and back and forth convo to do... not to mention that I've been trying for about a year with my HS issued .org email...)
2. You get access to this super weird and sluggish "Learn AWS" portal (by the way, none of this is by AWS, they outsourced to some 3rd party) where they force you to take 5 hours of learning AWS... luckily I found a way to bypass it.
3. Once you get through these portals you end up on this weird "ending page" which I highly recommend bookmarking if you really do decide to use the measly $75 they give. This "ending page" basically gives you the credentials (to use on CLI) and FORCES you to click on this button on the page anytime you want to access AWS.
4. Now that you clicked on this link, you have 60 minutes to do whatever that is under this heavily restricted AWS console...
5. After 60 minutes both your credentials in CLI and in the browser are gone and you'll have to use this "ending page"'s link again to get new credentials for both CLI and browser.
I don't have time to explain all of it, but it was really painful to setup.
GCP on the other hand just gives you $300 without question (other than credit card/phone number) and allows you to do whatever you want.
TLDR:
AWS Educate sucks. If you need to play around with cloud stuff, use GCP's $300. OR use AWS's free tier (but then again there are some super weird restrictions.... but I guess it's more bearable than Educate)
To answer your question:
Probably... just read what you can and cannot do (but stuff like spinning up EC2 instances is fine... its just that you can't connect for more than 60 minutes)