AWS Free Tier accounts
An AWS Free Tier account is a normal standard account that can be used for any purpose or workload type. AWS offers a generous Free Tier for the first 12 months of opening any new account. The Free Tier offers access to more than 85 AWS technologies and services (at the time of writing this training guide), wherein if you consume these services up to specified thresholds, you will not be charged. For example, under the Free Tier, you can do the following:
- Consume up to 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage for up to 12 months, free of charge.
- Launch a
t.2micro
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance running either a specific distribution of the Linux OS or a base Windows OS for up to 750 hours a month. In fact, with this offering, you could potentially run one low-powered website for an entire year without incurring the cost of compute for those 12 months. The Free Tier offering for EC2 is based on the number of hours per month, so there is nothing to stop you...