Summary
The Free Tier offers new accounts a full year of free access to light configurations of most AWS services. It’s meant as an opportunity to experiment and learn how your organization’s needs can be met in the cloud. You can track how close you are to “outspending” your Free Tier allowance from the Billing Dashboard.
You can find pricing information online by adding /pricing to the URL of an AWS service. aws.amazon.com/s3/, for instance, would become aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing. It’s important to understand both the billing rates and the specific metrics used to measure them.
The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator and AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator let you anticipate real-world usage costs for AWS deployments and (in the case of the TCO calculator) compare your spend with its on-premises equivalent.
Resource requests will sometimes be refused (and launches will fail) if your request would have pushed your consumption past a service limit.
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