Amazon Web Services (AWS) Now Offers Free Cloud Access

Amazon Web Services AWSThe Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. They provide online services for other web sites or client-side applications.

To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is now introducing a new free usage tier. New AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year. Starting on November 1, new AWS users will be able to take advantage of the following services for a year for free.

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


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**

AWS’s free usage tier starts November 1, 2010. But unfortunately a valid credit card is required to sign up.

4 thoughts on “Amazon Web Services (AWS) Now Offers Free Cloud Access”

  1. Great move by Amazon 🙂 i have been waiting months for this. But i am not going to just jump right into there service when it is released. I shall wait for review if it is worth wild using

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  2. Thanks for the information. This is helpful. I actually use rackspacecloud for few of my websites. I will check amazon AWS now so see how it works outs.

    Thanks Again

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  3. There goes the opportunity i was looking 4 last nite. I was hoping 4 a free account so i could create a w3tc tutorial. I hope they remove that credit card thingy soon.

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