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AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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45 points coop182 | 14 comments | 11 Jul 25 23:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
1. reactordev ◴[12 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44539199[source]▶
Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever…

1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…

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2. mcny ◴[12 Jul 25 04:42 UTC] No.44539355[source]▶
For students to learn effectively, they need a safe harbor. The most critical offering for learners on AWS is a free or prepaid account tier that completely eliminates the risk of surprise bills, allowing them to focus purely on their education.

If the free forever portion includes a t4g.small, 1 aurora, a 10 GB S3 bucket, that would be perfect.

I am not holding my breath though.

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3. lazystar ◴[12 Jul 25 04:42 UTC] No.44539356[source]▶
> have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever…

i could see a $10/month sub being a thing, but free forever... cmon, you know ppl would abuse the hell outta that.

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4. arccy ◴[12 Jul 25 04:53 UTC] No.44539393[source]▶
GCP manages to do it, AWS are just greedy and bad at DX
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5. galenko ◴[12 Jul 25 05:51 UTC] No.44539654[source]▶
Didn’t oracle cloud offer something like that free forever?
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6. Volundr ◴[12 Jul 25 06:12 UTC] No.44539756{3}[source]▶
Oracle clouds free offerings are very generous. But then your using Oracle.
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7. reactordev ◴[12 Jul 25 06:29 UTC] No.44539822[source]▶
That’s exactly what would make AWS sticky. A safe harbor for students to learn and build solutions using AWS without a surprise $400-$5000 bill. One experience like that, and you’ll be shopping on Newegg for a closet rack.
8. pjmlp ◴[12 Jul 25 06:47 UTC] No.44539901{4}[source]▶
Not an issue for many of us, other than possible issues with export restrictions, then again that applies to any US based technology now, if the administration keeps getting creative. They went after penguins after all.
9. lazystar ◴[12 Jul 25 07:30 UTC] No.44540062{3}[source]▶
is the GCP free tier in the room with us now?

in all seriousness, would love a link.

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10. IshKebab ◴[12 Jul 25 07:47 UTC] No.44540146{4}[source]▶
Not many people know this, but Google also makes a search engine!

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu...

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11. lazystar ◴[12 Jul 25 07:49 UTC] No.44540153{5}[source]▶
is the word "forever" in the fine-print somewhere?
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12. ◴[12 Jul 25 07:50 UTC] No.44540156{4}[source]▶
13. IshKebab ◴[12 Jul 25 07:56 UTC] No.44540183{6}[source]▶
> The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, subject to 30 days advance notice.

It's been available for as long as I can remember GCP existing. Obviously no company will or even could guarantee something like this will be provided forever.

14. mnahkies ◴[12 Jul 25 10:03 UTC] No.44540797{5}[source]▶
Really wish that GCP had a AWS lightsail equivalent offering. I'd happily make use of services like GCS and PubSub for my personal projects if they did, but I can't justify the GCE cost