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AWS Free Tier

Learn more about AWS Compute

Compute Solutions for Free on AWS

Instances, containers, and serverless computing for Free on AWS

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Product Benefits

Compute is used to reference processing power, memory, networking, storage, and other resources required for the computational success of any program. For example, applications that run machine learning algorithms or 3D graphics rendering functions require many gigs of RAM and multiple CPUs to run successfully.

AWS offer the broadest choice of compute services with the deepest functionality, more than any other cloud provider. We offer choice of processors, storage, networking, operating systems, and purchase models.

AWS is the only cloud provider with compute instances that deliver 400 Gbps networking and has the largest global network with 210 points of presence connected by 100 Gbps trans-oceanic cables.

With On-Demand pricing, you pay only for the compute you need with no long-term commitments. You can use Amazon EC2 Spot to reduce costs up to 90% or to accelerate performance for fault-tolerant workloads.

AWS supports 89 security standards and compliance certifications including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST 800-171, more than any other cloud provider.

Free Product Offers

Build compute solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS
PRODUCT PRICING
Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
 12 MONTHS FREE

750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region

750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region
Amazon EC2 Pricing
Amazon Lightsail Simple Virtual Private Servers

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers you everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.
3 MONTH FREE TRIAL (750 hours per month)

Try the $3.50 USD Lightsail plan free for one month when using Linux/Unix

Try the $8 USD plan free for one month when using Lightsail for Microsoft Windows Server
Amazon Lightsail Pricing
AWS Lambda Serverless Computing

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, creating workload-aware cluster scaling logic, maintaining event integrations, or managing runtimes.
ALWAYS FREE

1,000,000 free requests per month

Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month
AWS Lambda Pricing
Amazon Elastic Container Registry Fully Managed Container Registry

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere.
12 MONTHS FREE

500 MB per month of Storage
Amazon ECR Pricing
Elastic Load Balancing Distribute Network Traffic

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, Lambda functions, and virtual appliances.
 
12 MONTHS FREE

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 
Elastic Load Balancing Pricing

Learn more about AWS Compute solutions

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS

Videos

Introduction to Amazon EC2 (4:01)

Deploying a Mean Stack Application on Amazon Lightsail (10:25)

Introduction to AWS Lambda (3:01)

Using Amazon ECR to Store Container Images (5:57)