AWS Free Usage Tier

To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year, while also leveraging a new free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS data transfer. AWS’s free usage tier can be used for anything you want to run in the cloud: launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS.

Below are the highlights of AWS’s new free usage tiers. All are available for one year (except Amazon SimpleDB, SQS, and SNS which are free indefinitely):

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AWS’s free usage tier starts November 1, 2010. A valid credit card is required to sign up.
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AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):
  • 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
  • 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
  • 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests*
  • 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
  • 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)*
  • 25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage**
  • 100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service**
  • 100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service**
  • 10 Amazon Cloudwatch alarms**

In addition to these services, the AWS Management Console is available at no charge to help you build and manage your application on AWS.


* These free tiers are only available to new AWS customers and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates (see each service page for full pricing details). Restrictions apply; see offer terms for more details.

** These free tiers do not expire after 12 months and are available to both existing and new AWS customers indefinitely.

The new AWS free usage tier applies to participating services across all AWS regions: US – N. Virginia, US – N. California, EU – Ireland, and APAC – Singapore. Your free usage is calculated each month across all regions and automatically applied to your bill – free usage does not accumulate.

Why Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services provides a flexible, scalable, low-cost cloud computing platform for businesses of all sizes all around the world. With AWS, you have access to the same reliable, secure technology platform used to power Amazon.com’s global web properties.

Pay as you go. Beyond the AWS free usage tier, you only pay for the resources you use; there are no long-term contracts or up-front commitments.

Scalable. With AWS, you have access to Amazon’s massive infrastructure – you can use the resources you need to scale your application up or down based on demand.

Flexible. If it runs in your data center, it can run in the cloud. You choose the operating system, programming language, web application platform, software, and other tools to launch existing applications in the cloud or deploy new applications.

Easy to use. You can get started with AWS in minutes. Use the AWS Management Console, APIs, SDKs, or other development tools to get started quickly. Spend time focusing on your idea, not provisioning and managing hardware.

How to Get Started

You can sign up today to automatically take advantage of AWS’s free usage tier beginning November 1, 2010.

  1. Sign-up for an AWS account and subscribe to the services you’d like to use.
  2. Enter your billing address and credit card information or select existing payment information from your Amazon.com account. Beginning November 1, 2010, you will not be charged unless your usage exceeds the free usage tiers.
  3. Start using AWS – visit the Resources Section to find Getting Started Guides, development tools, and tutorials, or visit the Community Forums to get your questions answered.
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