Infrastructure support helps a project survive by lowering operating cost instead of increasing revenue. This category covers credits, hosting, managed services, and programs that remove operational burden from maintainers.

It is especially useful for projects limited by CI, storage, hosting, delivery, or day-to-day maintainer overhead. It does not replace Get Funding, but it can materially extend the life of a project by reducing the amount of cash the team needs to stay active.

Good references in this category include AWS Promotional Credit, Open Source Lab, and Staroid. Use infrastructure programs when cost and operational load are the main blockers; combine them with Run Projects and revenue or funding models when the project needs both cash and capacity.