Creating Your Free Tier Account
Let’s start by looking at the incredible resources you receive with the Free Tier for 1 year. We will follow this up with the components that remain free after the 1-year period.
Note
The exact terms of the Free Tier account could change at any time.
Here are the “free for a year” components, listed in alphabetical order for your convenience:
Amplify Hosting: This is a fully managed continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and hosting service for web applications, with 15 GB served per month.
API Gateway: This service enables you to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure your APIs, all while providing global scalability, with 1 million free API calls per month.
AppSync: This service permits you to develop, secure, and run GraphQL APIs at any required scale, with 250,000 query or data modifications per month.
Augmented AI: This service helps build the workflows required for human review of machine learning predictions, with 500 free objects.
Cloud Directory: This is a fully managed, cloud-native directory-building service for data with multiple hierarchies, with 1 GB of storage per month.
Comprehend: This is continuously trained and fully managed natural language processing (NLP), with 50,000 units of text (5M characters) for each API per month.
Connect: This simple-to-use, cloud-based contact center scales to support any size business and is available for 90 minutes per month at this tier.
Data Pipeline: This service provides orchestration for data-driven workflows, with three low-frequency preconditions.
EBS: The Elastic Block Storage service of AWS provides block-based storage for EC2 instances, with 30 GB of general-purpose solid state drives (SSDs).
EC2: This is your virtual machine compute service in the cloud, available for 750 hours per month at this tier.
EFS: The Elastic File Service of AWS provides scalable shared file storage services and 5 GB of total storage.
Elastic Container Registry: This is a registry service for Docker images, available with 500 MB of storage per month.
Elastic Transcoder: This is the AWS fully managed media transcoding service, with 20 minutes of audio transcoding.
ElastiCache: This in-memory, cloud-based cache service is based on industry standard caching protocols and is available for 750 hours of single-node usage.
ELB: The Elastic Load Balancing service of AWS can automatically distribute requests across multiple EC2 instances, with 750 hours per month shared between Classic and Application Load Balancers.
GameLift: GameLift provides simple, fast, cost-effective dedicated game server hosting. The Free Tier comes with 125 hours per month of Amazon GameLift on-demand instance usage, plus 50 GB EBS general-purpose SSD storage.
HealthImaging: This service assists clients in building cloud-native medical imaging applications, with 20 GB of storage.
Interactive Video Service: This service provides easy setup of live, interactive video streams, with 100 hours of SD video output per month.
IoT Core: This service seeks to connect your IoT devices to the cloud, allowing 500,000 messages published or delivered per month.
IoT Device Management: This service helps you onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage your connected IoT devices, allowing 50 remote actions per month.
IoT Events: This service seeks to simplify IoT message detection and response, with 2,500 message evaluations per month.
IoT Greengrass: This service provides local compute, messaging, data caching, and sync capabilities for your IoT connected devices, allowing three connected devices for free.
Lex: This service permits you to build voice and chat text chatbots, allowing 10,000 text requests per month.
MQ: Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ, and the Free Tier allows 750 hours of a single-instance broker per month.
OpenSearch: This AWS managed service aims to simplify log analytics and real-time application monitoring, with 750 hours free per month.
OpsWorks for Chef Automate: This cloud service provides configuration management with Chef Automate and Chef Server, available for 10 nodes per month.
OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise: This service provides configuration management in a Puppet Enterprise environment, available for 10 nodes per month.
Pinpoint: Pinpoint enables targeted push notifications for mobile apps, with 5,000 free targeted users per month.
Polly: This service turns text into speech, allowing 5 million characters per month.
RDS: The relational database service of AWS is available for 750 hours per month of applicable database engine usage.
Rekognition: This is a deep learning-based image recognition service, available for 5,000 images per month.
S3: The Simple Storage Service of AWS provides object-based storage to an unlimited scale, with 5 GB of standard storage.
SES: This is the cost-effective cloud-based email service provided by AWS, and it is available for 3,000 messages per month.
Transcribe: This service can add speech-to-text capability to your applications with automatic speech recognition and is available for 60 minutes per month.
Translate: This service provides fast, high-quality, and affordable neural machine translation for 2 million characters per month.