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All You Need to Know About AWS Free Tier

As a global cloud company, AWS have many interesting product that we can choose as part of our tech stack. For learning and know all of it, AWS has free tier option that we can utilise for knowing them deeper with hands-on without cost us a lot even free. Before utilise them, we need to know type of free offer for services that we want to try because not all the services have same type of free. We can checking them here. I also try to explain them below.

12 Months Free

The offers will be count for 12-months from your initial sign-up date to AWS.

For see detail list, you can open the link above and choose 12 months free from filter list in your left.

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Always Free

Some of the services come with free offer but with some limitation. The interesting part is these offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers.

For see detail list, you can open the link above and choose Always free from filter list in your left.

For more information can check on the image below

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Trials

Another interesting free tier type we need to know is trials.
AWS offers short-term free trial for some services. It will count from the date you activate a particular service.

For see detail list, you can open the link above and choose Trials from filter list in your left.

For more information can check on the image below

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Free Tier Usage in Bill

We can also find all the free tier status that we already used in the bill usage. We can see the top free tier we used like below

Top Free Tier in Bill Usage

If we click the view all button, The list will be expande can see all top free tier list that already used

Check All top free tier list in Bill Usage

Conclusion

As you see above, with free tier option that AWS offer, We can maximize our usage when we build our tech stack on top of AWS. we really need to know about the free tier type that AWS offer therefore we can avoid unnecessary bill in our AWS account.

I think that's it for this article for now. Leave a comment below. Let me know about your thoughts! Thanks.

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