[Nfb-web] Amazon Web Services Free Usage Tier

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good morning,

Ran across this offer last night, and thought others might be interested.

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a free usage tier. New AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro
Instance for a year, while also leveraging a free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS data transfer.
AWS’s free usage tier can be used for anything you want to run in the cloud: launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or simply
gain hands-on experience with AWS.

Below are the highlights of AWS’s free usage tiers. All are available for one year (except Amazon SimpleDB, SQS, and SNS which are free indefinitely):

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A valid credit card is required to sign up. See 
offer terms.

AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):

750 hours of 
Amazon EC2
 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
750 hours of an 
Elastic Load Balancer
 plus 15 GB data processing*
10 GB of 
Amazon Elastic Block Storage,
plus 1 million I/Os and 1 GB of snapshot storage*
5 GB of 
Amazon S3
 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*
25 
Amazon SimpleDB
 Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage**
100,000 Requests of 
Amazon Simple Queue Service
**
100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for 
Amazon Simple Notification Service
**
10 
Amazon Cloudwatch
 metrics, 10 alarms, and 1,000,000 API requests**

HTH,
Everett Zufelt
http://zufelt.ca

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