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AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier is designed to give you hands-on experience with a range of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and services without charging you for usage up to a specific limit. This tier primarily benefits new AWS customers, allowing them to try different AWS services and gain practical experience before committing to more extensive usage. The Free Tier includes offers that are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date, as well as offers that are always free.

Here are the main components of the AWS Free Tier:

12-Months Free: These offers are available to new AWS customers and are valid for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date. After the 12-month free usage term, you pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.

Always Free: These offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers. They provide limited access to a range of AWS services for free forever. However, the usage limits reset monthly.

Trials: Short-term trial offers start when you activate a particular service and end following a specified duration. These are meant to allow customers to try out new services for a short period, usually with a higher resource availability compared to the Always Free offers.

Some of the most popular AWS Free Tier services include:

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): You can get 750 hours per month of t2.micro or t3.micro instance usage for Linux and Windows, which is enough to run continuously each month when managed within the Free Tier limits.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): Offers 5 GB of standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests.

Amazon DynamoDB: Provides 25 GB of database storage, 25 read capacity, and 25 write capacity units for free.

Amazon Lambda: Allows you to run 1 million requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.

To maximize the Free Tier's benefit, monitoring your usage closely to avoid unexpected charges is essential. AWS provides several tools to track your Free Tier usage, including the AWS Management Console, where you can view your current usage relative to the tier's limits.

 

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