Since @dtssagio let me know about the existence of Amazon Web Services like S3 or EC2 I’ve always wondered why such an interesting and revolutionary set of services did not have a marketing strategy based on a trial period or free but limited capabilities too. As a matter of fact I remember that the first thing I thought was “Incredible, let’s try it…”, but soon I realized there was no “Try it!” button on AWS pages.

But hey, someone at Amazon finally got it and now Amazon wants to “help new AWS customers get started in the cloud [..] introducing a new free usage tier.”. We are so lucky, Amazon wants to help us!! In a few words they realized that maybe there is someone out there that maybe can’t really understand the real huge power of this “big thing” starting from the river of words on AWS pages only. Maybe after a trial period there may be someone out there that could really understand what they are talking about and why I should pay for it.

With the AWS Free Usage Tier you will be able to “run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year, while also leveraging a new free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS data transfer.”. For example, for EC2, you will get a Micro Instance only. Well, this is not exaclty the top of the available range: 613 MB of memory, 32 or 64 bit, up to two EC2 compute units (ECU) and EBS storage only. Anyway it’s just for testing purposes and it’s really enough to start loading a personal page or something more.

Beware of the per month limits of the services, if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers Amazon will charge you with standard pricing rates!

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