Get started with the AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier enables you to gain free, hands-on experience with more than 60 products on AWS. AWS Free Tier includes the following free offer types:

• Free trials – These offers are short-term free trials starting from date you activate a particular service. Once the trial period expires, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.

• 12 Months Free – These tier offers include 12 months of free usage following your initial sign-up date to AWS. When your 12-month free usage term expires, or if your application use exceeds the tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.

• Always Free – These free tier offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers.

This section lists some of the most commonly used AWS Free Tier services. Terms and conditions apply. For the full list of AWS Free Tier services, see AWS Free Tier.

Free trials

• Amazon SageMaker: 250 hours per month of ml.t3.medium on Studio notebooks OR 250 hours per month of ml.t2.medium or ml.t3.medium on on-demand notebook instances for two months. 25 hours per month on ml.m5.4xlarge on SageMaker Data Wrangler for two months. 10 million write units, 10 million read units, and 25 GB storage per month for two months on SageMaker Feature Store. 50 hours per month of m4.xlarge or m5.xlarge instances on Training for two months. 125 hours of m4.xlarge or m5.xlarge instance per month on Inference for two months.

• Amazon Redshift: 750 hours per month for free (this amounts to enough hours to continuously run one DC2). Large node with 160GB of compressed SSD storage. You can also build clusters with multiple nodes to test larger datasets, which will consume your free hours more quickly. Once your two-month free trial expires or your usage exceeds 750 hours per month, you can shut down your cluster to avoid any charges, or keep it running at the standard On-Demand Rate.

12 Months Free

• Amazon EC2: 750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro / t3.micro instance usage or 750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro / t3.micro instance usage dependent on Region.

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 GET requests, and 2,000 PUT requests.

• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS): 750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ db.t2.micro, db.t3.micro, and db.t4g.micro instances usage for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or db.t3.micro instance usage running SQL Server (running SQL Server Express Edition); 20 GB of general purpose SSD database storage and 20 GB of storage for database backup and database snapshots.

• Amazon CloudFront: 50 GB data transfer out and 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS requests each month.

Always Free

• Amazon DynamoDB: Up to 200 million requests per month (25 write capacity units (WCUs) and 25 read capacity units (RCUs)); 25 GB of storage.

• Amazon S3 Glacier: Retrieve up to 10 GB of your Amazon S3 Glacier data per month for free (applies to standard retrievals using the Glacier API only).

• AWS Lambda: 1 million free requests per month; up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month.

The AWS Free Tier is not available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions or the China (Beijing) Region at this time. The Lambda Free Tier is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.