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What is the AWS Free Tier?
The AWS Free Tier allows you to explore and test AWS services for free up to a specified limit.
The Free Tier includes three types of offers: a 12-month Free Tier and an Always Free offer. There are also short-term trials.
Services with a 12-month free Tier allow you to use the product up to a specified limit for one year starting from the date that the account was created.
Services with an “Always Free” offer allow you to use the product free of charge for as long as your AWS account is active.
Services that offer a short-term trial can be used for free for a specific period of time, or up to a limited time, depending on the service chosen.
If your application usage exceeds the free tier limits you will be charged standard, pay as-you-go rates.
Participating services in all regions are eligible for the Amazon AWS Free Tier. The AWS Free Tier calculates your free usage each month across all regions. It is applied to your bill automatically. Free usage does not accumulate.
What are the requirements to be eligible for the AWS Free Tier
All customers can access the AWS Free Tier. Only one account can receive the AWS Free Tier offer if you are connected to an Organization (under AWS Organizations).
The usage of AWS Services by an Organization under any offer is summed across all accounts. If you are not eligible for the free Tier or exceed the limits for a service, you will be charged standard rates.
How many free Tier – Always Free services do you have?
Globally, 35 Always Free services are available. They range from Compute to Database, Mobile, and more.
Let’s take a look at some of the most useful and popular Always Free services.
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB, a flexible and fast NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit millisecond performance, is available.
Use Cases
High concurrency and connections are required for millions of users and millions of requests per minute to build internet-scale applications that support user-content metadata and caches.
Scaling throughput and concurrency in media and entertainment workloads like real-time streaming video and interactive content. Also, delivering lower latency via multi-region replication across AWS regions.
What do you get each month?
25 GB of storage
25 provisioned Write Capacity Units
25 provisioned Read Capacity units (RCU)
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda, a compute service, runs your code in response events and automatically manages the compute resource.
Use Cases
You can preprocess data before it is fed to your machine learning model (ML). This allows you to combine it with Amazon Elastic File System access (EFS) to achieve automated infrastructure management and provisioning for simplified scaling.
Event-driven functions are used to communicate between decoupled services. This allows you to execute code at whatever capacity you need, when you need it, scaling to your data volume automatically, and enabling custom triggers.
What do you get each month?
1,000,000 requests per month are free
Monthly compute time of up to 3.2 million seconds
Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie, a fully managed data privacy and security service that uses pattern matching and machine learning to protect sensitive data in AWS, is managed by Amazon.
Use Cases
Continuously identifying sensitive data and evaluating access controls across Amazon S3 environments. This will generate actionable findings that can be used to quickly respond to any emergency.
You can monitor sensitive data and protect it, providing evidence that you are enforcing privacy and data security to meet regulatory compliance requirements. All sensitive data discovery job outputs will be automatically sent, including evaluation results, time stamps and historical records of all buckets and objects that were scanned for sensitive information to an S3 bucket you control.
What do you get each month?
1 GB was processed by the content classification engine
100,000 events
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a cloud-based email service that allows developers to send mail from any application, is cost-effective and easy to use.
Use Cases
Transactional emails allow you to send immediate, trigger-based communications to customers from your application, such as purchase confirmations and password resets.
Bulk email communication allows you to send bulk communications
