The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier is designed to enable you to get hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services. The AWS Free Tier includes services with a free tier available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date, as well as additional service offers that do not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
After creating your AWS account you can use any of the products and services, listed below, for free within certain usage limits.
You can start today and automatically take advantage of the AWS Free Tier by following the steps below:
- 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 tier limits.
- 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
- For example, run 1 instance x 1 month or 2 instances x half a month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon S3
Secure, durable, and scalable object storage infrastructure.
Learn More »- 5 GB of Standard Storage
- 20,000 Get Requests
- 2,000 Put Requests
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon EFS
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Simple, scalable, shared file storage service for Amazon EC2 instances.
Learn More »- 5GB of storage
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon RDS
Managed Relational Database Service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle BYOL, or 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 separately billed)
- 10,000,000 I/Os
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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- 250,000 Messages (published or delivered) per month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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- 500 MB-month of Storage
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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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
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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Elastic Load Balancing
Automatic distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
Learn More »- 750 Hours per month shared between Classic and Application load balancers
- 15 GB of data processing for Classic load balancers
- 15 LCUs for Application load balancers
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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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.
Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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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
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon Elastic Block Storage
Persistent, durable, low-latency block-level storage volumes for EC2 instances.
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
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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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
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon Redshift
Fast, simple, cost-effective data warehousing
Learn More »- Two-month free trial
- 750 DC1.Large hours per month for 2 months
- Expires 2 months after sign-up.
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AWS Data Pipeline
Orchestration for data-driven workflows.
Learn More »- 3 Low Frequency Preconditions
- 5 Low Frequency Activities
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud
Learn More »- 750 hours per month of a single-AZ t2.micro.elasticsearch instance
- 10GB per month of optional EBS storage (Magnetic or General Purpose)
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon Cognito
Mobile user identity and synchronization.
Learn More »- The Your User Pool feature has a free tier of 50,000 MAUs each month**
- The Federated Identities feature for authenticating users and generating unique identifiers is always free with Amazon Cognito **
- 10 GB of cloud sync storage. Expires 12 months after sign-up.
- 1,000,000 sync operations per month. Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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AWS Device Farm
Test your iOS, Android and FireOS apps on real devices in the AWS cloud
Learn More »- Free one-time trial of 250 Device Minutes
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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Amazon Mobile Analytics
Fast, secure mobile app usage analytics.
Learn More »- 100 Million free events per month
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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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
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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AWS CodeCommit
Highly scalable, managed source control service
Learn More »- 5 active users per month
- 50 GB-month of storage per month
- 10,000 Git requests per month
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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AWS CodePipeline
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).
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
- 1 Active Pipeline 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
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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Amazon CloudWatch
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications.
Learn More »- 10 Custom Metrics and 10 Alarms
- 1,000,000 API Requests
- 5GB of Log Data Ingestion and 5GB of Log Data Archive
- 3 Dashboards with up to 50 Metrics Each per Month
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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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
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon API Gateway
Publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale
Learn More »- 1 Million API Calls Received per month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon AppStream
Lets you deliver your Windows applications to any device.
Learn More »- 20 free hours per month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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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
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon SES
Cost-effective email service in the Cloud.
Learn More »- 62,000 Outbound Messages per month to any recipient when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- 1,000 Inbound Messages per month
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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Amazon SQS
Scalable queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.
Learn More »- 1,000,000 Requests
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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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
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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Amazon Rekognition
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Deep learning-based image recognition service
Learn More »- Analyze 5,000 images per month
- Store up to 1,000 face metadata per month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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- 5M characters per month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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Amazon QuickSight
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Fast, easy-to-use, cloud-powered business analytics service at 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions.
Learn More »- 1 GB of SPICE capacity 1 user perpetual free tier
- 10GB of SPICE capacity the first 2 months for free for a total of 4 users
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AWS CodeBuild
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Fully managed build service that builds and tests code in the cloud
Learn More »- 100 build minutes per month of build.general1.small compute type usage
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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AWS Step Functions
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Coordinate components of distributed applications
Learn More »- 4,000 state transitions per month
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free term.
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AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
New AWS Free Tier Offer
Configuration management with Chef server and Chef Automate
Learn More »- 10 nodes per month
- Expires 12 months after sign up.
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- 100,000 traces recorded per month
- 1,000,000 traces scanned or retrieved per month
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.
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- 5,000 free targeted users per month
- 1,000,000 free push notifications per month
- 100,000,000 events per month
- Expires 12 months after sign-up.
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- 40 hours per month up to two months
- Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free term.
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.
These free tier offers do not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term and are available to all AWS customers.
- 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.**
- The Your User Pool feature has a free tier of 50,000 MAUs each month**
- The Federated Identities feature for authenticating users and generating unique identifiers is always free with Amazon Cognito**
Cognito also includes:
- 10 GB of cloud sync storage. Expires 12 months after signup
- 1,000,000 sync operations per month. Expires 12 months after signup
The Your User Pool feature is currently in Beta and you will not be charged for sending SMS messages for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and phone verification. However, separate pricing for sending SMS messages will apply after the conclusion of Beta period.
- 5 active users per month**
- 50 GB-month of storage per month**
- 10,000 Git requests per month**
- 10 Amazon Cloudwatch custom metrics, 10 alarms, and 1,000,000 API requests**
- 5 GB of Log Data Ingestion**
- 5 GB of Log Data Archive**
- 3 Dashboards with up to 50 metrics each per month**
- 100,000 traces recorded per month**
- 1,000,000 traces scanned or retrieved per month**
- 40 hours per month up to two months**
- 100 million free events per month**
- 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**
- 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**
- Free one-time trial of 250 device minutes
- 4,000 state transitions per month**
- 62,000 Outbound Messages per month to any recipient when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk.**
- 1,000 Inbound Messages per month.**
- 1 user, 1 GB of SPICE
- 100 build minutes per month of build.general1.small compute type usage**
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.
- 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 shared between Classic and Application load balancers, 15 GB data processing for Classic load balancers, and 15 LCUs for Application load balancers*
- 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*
- 500 MB-month of Amazon EC2 Container Registry storage for new customers*
- 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
- 5 GB per month of Amazon EFS capacity free*
- 750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ db.t2.micro Instances,for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, 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
- 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.*
- 50 GB Data Transfer Out, 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS Requests of Amazon CloudFront*
- 20 free hours per month*
- 1 Million API Calls per month*
- 750 hours per month of a single-AZ t2.micro.elasticsearch instance*
- 10GB per month of optional EBS storage (Magnetic or General Purpose)*
- 5,000 free targeted users per month*
- 1,000,000 free push notifications per month*
- 100,000,000 events per month*
- 10 nodes per month*
- 250,000 messages (published or delivered) per month*
* 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 our global regions. 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. The AWS Free Tier is not available in the China (Beijing) region at this time.
