The Amazon AWS Free Tier is designed to enable you to get hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services at no charge for 12 months after you sign up.
After creating your AWS account you can use any of the 21 products and services, listed below, for free within certain usage limits.
You can sign up today to automatically take advantage of AWS’s cloud services free tier.
- Sign-up for an AWS account.
- Enter your billing address and credit card information. You will not be charged unless your usage exceeds the free usage tiers.
- Start using AWS Cloud services, choosing from any of the products listed below.
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Amazon EC2
Resizable compute capacity in the Cloud.
Learn More »- 750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro instance usage
- 750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro instance usage
- Run one instance at a time or multiple instances simultaneously
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Amazon S3
Highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure.
Learn More »- 5 GB of Standard Storage
- 20,000 Get Requests
- 2,000 Put Requests
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Amazon DynamoDB
Fast and flexible NoSQL database with seamless scalability.
Learn More »- 25 GB of Storage
- 25 Units of Write Capacity
- 25 Units of Read Capacity
- Enough to handle up to 200M requests per month
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AWS Lambda
Compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources
Learn More »- 1,000,000 free requests per month
- Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month
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- 5 active users per month
- 50 GB-month of storage per month
- 10,000 Git requests per month
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AWS Key Management Service
AWS Key Management Service is a managed service that provides easy encryption with administrative controls.
Learn More »- 20,000 free requests per month
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Amazon Cognito
Mobile user identity and synchronization.
Learn More »- Unlimited user authentication and ID generation
- 10 GB of cloud sync storage
- 1,000,000 sync operations per month
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Amazon Appstream
Lets you deliver your Windows applications to any device.
Learn More »- 20 free hours per month
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AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cloud Optimization Expert.
Learn More »- 4 best-practice checks on performance and security (service limits, security groups, IAM, and MFA)
- Notification and customization features
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Amazon CloudFront
Web service to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
Learn More »- 50 GB of Data Transfer Out
- 2,000,000 HTTP or HTTPS Requests
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Amazon RDS
Managed Relational Database Service for MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Learn More »- 750 Hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ db.t2.micro Instance usage
- 20 GB of DB Storage: any combination of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic
- 20 GB for Backups (with RDS Magnetic storage; I/Os on General Purpose [SSD] are not seperately billed)
- 10,000,000 I/Os
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Amazon Mobile Analytics
Fast, secure mobile app usage analytics.
Learn More »- 100 Million free events per month
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Amazon EBS
Highly available, reliable, and predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance.
Learn More »- 30 GB of Amazon EBS: any combination of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic
- 2,000,000 I/Os (with EBS Magnetic)
- 1 GB of snapshot storage
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Amazon ElastiCache
Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the Cloud.
Learn More »- 750 Hours of cache.t2micro Node usage
- Enough hours to run continuously each month
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Amazon ELB
Automatic distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
Learn More »- 750 Hours per month
- 15 GB of Data Processing
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Fully managed media transcoding service.
Learn More »- 20 Minutes of Audio Transcoding
- 20 Minutes of SD Transcoding
- 10 Minutes of HD Transcoding
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Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications.
Learn More »- 10 Metrics
- 10 Alarms
- 1,000,000 API Requests
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Amazon SQS
Scalable queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.
Learn More »- 1,000,000 Requests
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Amazon SNS
Fast, flexible, fully managed push messaging service
Learn More »- 1,000,000 Publishes
- 1,000,000 Mobile Push Deliveries
- 100,000 HTTP/S Deliveries
- 1,000 Email Deliveries
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Amazon SWF
Task coordination and state management service for Cloud applications.
Learn More »- 10,000 Activity Tasks
- 30,000 Workflow-Days
- 1,000 Initiated Executions
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AWS Data Pipeline
Orchestration for data-driven workflows.
Learn More »- 3 Low Frequency Preconditions
- 5 Low Frequency Activities
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Amazon SES
Cost-effective email-sending service in the Cloud.
Learn More »- 62,000 Messages per month to any recipient when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
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AWS CodePipeline
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates
Learn More »- 1 Active Pipeline per month
An active pipeline is a pipeline that has at least one code change that moves through it during the month (i.e., making an update to your code in your source code repository or re-running your previous code change through your pipeline).
- 1 Active Pipeline per month
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Amazon API Gateway
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale
Learn More »- 1 Million API Calls Received per month
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AWS Device Farm
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Test your Android, Fire OS, and iOS apps on real devices in the AWS Cloud
Learn More »- Free one-time trial of 250 Device Minutes
AWS Marketplace offers more than 700 free and paid software products that run on the AWS Free Tier. If you qualify for the AWS Free Tier, you can use these products on an Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance for up to 750 hours per month and pay no additional charges for the Amazon EC2 instance (during the 12 months). Software charges may still apply for paid software.
- 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
- 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Microsoft Windows Server† t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB 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*
- 30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage in any combination of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic, plus 2 million I/Os (with EBS Magnetic) and 1 GB of snapshot storage*
- 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
25 GB of Storage, 25 Units of Read Capacity and 25 Units of Write Capacity – Enough to handle up to 200M requests per month with Amazon DynamoDB.**
- 750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ db.t2.micro Instances, for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle BYOL or SQL Server (running SQL Server Express Edition) – enough hours to run a DB Instance continuously each month*
- 20 GB of database storage, in any combination of RDS General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic storage
- 10 million I/Os (for use with RDS Magnetic storage; I/Os on RDS General Purpose (SSD) storage are not separately billed)
- 20 GB of backup storage for your automated database backups and any user-initiated DB Snapshots
- 50 GB Data Transfer Out, 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS Requests of Amazon CloudFront*
- Unlimited user authentication and ID generation**
- 10 GB of cloud sync storage
- 1,000,000 sync operations per month
- 20 free hours per month*
- 5 active users per month**
- 50 GB-month of storage per month**
- 10,000 Git requests per month**
- You can send 62,000 messages per month to any recipient when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk.**
- 1,000 Amazon SWF workflow executions and a total of 10,000 activity tasks, signals, timers and markers, and 30,000 workflow-days.**
- 1,000,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service**
- 1,000,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service**
- 20 minutes of SD transcoding or 10 minutes of HD transcoding**
- 10 Amazon Cloudwatch metrics, 10 alarms, and 1,000,000 API requests**
- 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*
- 3 low frequency preconditions running on AWS per month*
- 5 low frequency activities running on AWS per month*
- 750 hours of Amazon ElastiCache cache.t2micro Node usage - enough hours to run continuously each month.*
- 100 million free events per month**
- 20,000 free requests per month**
- 1,000,000 free requests per month**
- Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month**
- 1 active pipeline per month**
- 1 Million API Calls per month**
- Free one-time trial of 250 device minutes**
* These free tier offers are only available to new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date. When your 12 month free usage term expires or if your application use exceeds the 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 tier offers do not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term, but are available to both existing and new AWS customers indefinitely.
† The following Windows variants are not eligible for the free tier: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server Web, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server Standard, Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 64-bit for Cluster Instances and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SQL Server 64-bit for Cluster Instances.
The Amazon AWS Free Tier applies to participating services across the following AWS regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Sao Paulo). Your free usage under the AWS Free Tier is calculated each month across all regions and automatically applied to your bill – free usage does not accumulate.
