If your enterprise is preparing for a
digital transformation journey and is looking for a simple strategy to test
waters (or road testing, if you want), here is what none can refuse to accept –
a free ticket to kick start your journey and that with the pioneer that offered
infrastructure as a service – Amazon.
Let us first look at what services are offered for free for
12 months by AWS in its Free Tier
(Only available to new AWS customers, and
are available for 12 months following an AWS sign-up date).
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Use this to create Virtual machines for
your workloads.
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
Elastic Load Balancer
Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across
multiple targets – Available as Application load balancer, Network load
balancer and Classic load balancer
Elastic Block Storage
Persistent block storage volumes for EC2
instances / Virtual machines
Elastic Container Registry
A fully-managed Docker container registry
that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container
images.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Object storage built to store and retrieve
any amount of data from anywhere
5 GB of Amazon S3 standard
storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
A simple, scalable file storage for use
with Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Set up, operate, and scale a relational
database in the cloud.
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
Amazon Cloud Directory
Enables you to build flexible cloud-native
directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions. With
Cloud Directory, you can create directories for a variety of use cases, such as
organizational charts, course catalogs, and device registries including AD LDS
Amazon Connect
A self-service cloud-based contact center
service to deliver better customer service
90 minutes per month of Amazon
Connect usage; A local direct inward dial (DID) number for the AWS region; 30
minutes per month of local (to the AWS region) inbound DID calls; 30 minutes
per month of local (to the AWS region) outbound calls; For US regions, a US
toll-free number for use per month and 30 minutes per month of US inbound
toll-free calls
Amazon GameLift
A managed service for deploying, operating,
and scaling dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games
Data Transfer
Amazon Data Pipeline
A web service to reliably process and move
data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises
data sources, at specified intervals
Amazon ElastiCache
Fully managed Redis and Memcached to seamlessly
deploy, operate, and scale popular open source compatible in-memory data stores
Amazon CloudFront
A global content delivery network (CDN)
service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to viewers
with low latency and high transfer speeds.
Amazon API Gateway
A fully managed service that makes it easy
for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any
scale
Amazon Cognito
Add user sign-up, sign-in and access
control of web and mobile application users
The Your User Pool feature has
a free tier of 50,000 MAUs each month; 10 GB of cloud sync storage; 1,000,000
sync operations per month.
Amazon Sumerian
Create and run virtual reality (VR),
augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without
requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
A fully managed service to deploy, secure,
operate, and scale Elasticsearch for log analytics, full text search,
application monitoring etc.
Amazon Pinpoint
Engage your customers by tracking the ways
in which they interact with your applications
5,000 free targeted users per
month; 1,000,000 free push notifications per month; 100,000,000 events per
month
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
A fully-managed configuration
management service that hosts Chef Automate, a suite of automation tools from
Chef for configuration management, compliance and security, and continuous
deployment.
AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
A fully-managed configuration management
service that hosts Puppet Enterprise, a set of automation tools from Puppet for
infrastructure and application management.
Amazon Polly
A Text-to-speech service that turns text
into lifelike speech, allowing to create applications that talk, and build
entirely new categories of speech-enabled products
AWS IoT
A managed cloud platform that lets
connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and
other devices.
Amazon Lex
An automatic speech recognition /
speech-to-text service for building conversational interfaces into any
application using voice and text
Here below is the list of services that are always free
(non-expiring)
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.
Amazon DynamoDB
A fully managed, fast and flexible NoSQL
database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit
millisecond latency at any scale
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.
Amazon Cognito
Add user sign-up, sign-in and access
control of web and mobile application users
(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.)
AWS CodeCommit
A fully-managed source control service that
makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git
repositories
Amazon CloudWatch
A monitoring service for AWS cloud
resources and the applications you run on AWS
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
AWS X-Ray
Analyze and debug production, distributed
applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture
Amazon Mobile Analytics – Now called Amazon Pinpoint
Engage customers by tracking the ways in
which they interact with your applications.
AWS Database Migration Service
Migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely
AWS Storage Gateway
A hybrid storage service that enables your
on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage for backup and
archiving, disaster recovery, cloud bursting, storage tiering, and migration
Amazon Chime
A communications service for online
meetings, video conferencing, calls, chat, and to share content, both inside
and outside your organization.
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
A task-based API that makes it easy to
coordinate work across distributed application components by providing a
programming model and infrastructure for coordinating distributed components
and maintaining their execution state in a reliable way.
1,000 Amazon SWF workflow
executions and a total of 10,000 activity tasks, signals, timers and markers,
and 30,000 workflow-days.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon Simple
Notification Service (SNS)
SQS is a fully managed message queuing
service to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and
serverless applications. SNS is a flexible, fully managed pub/sub messaging and
mobile notifications service for coordinating the delivery of messages to
subscribing endpoints and clients.
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
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
A media transcoding service for developers
and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) media files from their source format
into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.
AWS Key Management Service
A managed service to create and control the
encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Hardware Security Modules
(HSMs) to protect the security of your keys
AWS Lambda
A platform service to run code without
provisioning or managing servers
AWS CodePipeline
A continuous integration and continuous
delivery service for application and infrastructure updates.
AWS Device Farm
An app testing service that lets you test
and interact with your Android, iOS, and web apps on many devices at once, or
reproduce issues on a device in real time.
AWS Step Functions
A serverless platform service to orchestrate
AWS Lambda functions for serverless applications.
Amazon SES
A cloud-based email sending service
designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification,
and transactional emails to customers.
Amazon QuickSight
A business analytics service that makes it
easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business
insights from your data
1 user, 1 GB of SPICE (Super-fast,
Parallel, In-memory, Calculation Engine)
Amazon Glacier
A secure, durable cloud storage service for
data archiving and long-term backup
Amazon Macie
A security service that uses machine
learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in
AWS.
AWS Glue
A fully managed extract, transform, and
load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their
data for analytics
AWS CodeBuild
A fully managed build service that compiles
source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to
deploy
†
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.
AWS Marketplace offers 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).
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