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Quoted from the signup FAQ: 'With Sign up for AWS (new), most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started.' The Free plan runs 6 months or until the credits are spent: 'Your free account plan ends after six months or when your credits are fully used - whichever occurs first.'","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/","read_on":"2026-10-24"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"750 hours a month of t4g.small, which is one instance running continuously; the Free plan also names T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, C7i-flex.large and M7i-flex.large as eligible"},"retention":{"stated":"Quoted: 'After your free account plan expires, your account closes automatically, and you lose access to your resources and data. AWS retains your content for 90 days before permanently deleting your account and all associated resources.'"},"egress":{"terms":"Quoted: 'AWS customers receive 100 GB of free data transfer out to the internet free each month, aggregated across all AWS Services and Regions (except China and GovCloud).' The marginal rate beyond 100 GB was not read on a page today, so it is not recorded as a number.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"100 GB per month, aggregated across services","source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/"},"interface":["ssh","rest","cli"],"interface_detail":"A real EC2 instance with an SSH key pair, a public IPv4 or IPv6 address, security groups, and the full AWS API and CLI","tooling":"any SSH client; the AWS CLI or console","chaining":"A 2 vCPU / 2 GiB Graviton instance running 24/7 for six months, at no charge and usually with no card: the strongest no-card find after the credit offers, and the one that most directly contradicts the corpus's assumption that AWS means a card.","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"the Free plan ends at 6 months or when the USD 100 to 200 of credits is spent, whichever comes first","source":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier-plans.html"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"the t4g.small free trial itself is advertised until 2026-12-31","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"750 hours a month, so one instance at 24/7 and no second one","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"a payment method may be requested for additional verification; when it is, USD 1 is held for 3 to 5 days","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/"}],"binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"Six months is a hard stop with automatic account closure, and the t4g.small trial has its own advertised end date of 2026-12-31, so the machine has two clocks and the earlier one wins.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"no card for most new customers: quoted 'With Sign up for AWS (new), most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started. In some cases, we may ask for additional verification to protect your account.' When a card is asked for, the hold is USD 1: quoted 'Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days to verify your account and help prevent fraud; however, your card will not be charged'. Signup supports 'Google, GitHub, Apple, or Amazon' as the identity provider.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed. The vendor states it may reclaim resources unused for 3 months: 'If you have not used the AWS resources provided under an Offer during the previous 3 months, we may reclaim those AWS resources after giving you 30 days' notice.'","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The t4g.small free trial, its 750-hour allowance, the 2026-12-31 end date, the Free plan's six-month life, the automatic account closure and the 'most new customers' payment-method statement are all quoted from AWS's own pages read today. The egress allowance for this shape is not on any page read, so it is recorded as unstated rather than filled in.","evidence":[{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Free Trial: Try Amazon EC2 t4g.small instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors free for up to 750 hours / month until Dec 31st 2026.'"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted instance table: 't4g.micro | 2 | 1 | 10% | 12 | Up to 5 | Up to 2,085' and 't4g.small | 2 | 2 | 20% | 24 | Up to 5 | Up to 2,085' (vCPU, GiB, baseline, CPU credits, burst Gbps, EBS Mbps)"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'With Sign up for AWS (new), most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started. In some cases, we may ask for additional verification to protect your account.'"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days to verify your account and help prevent fraud; however, your card will not be charged, and you will not incur any costs as long as you remain on the Free plan.'"},{"url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'When you sign up for AWS, we might request payment information. Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days to verify your account and prevent fraud.' and 'Sign up for AWS (new) supports using Google, GitHub, Apple, or Amazon for your account.'"},{"url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier-plans.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Your free account plan ends after six months or when your credits are fully used - whichever occurs first.' and 'After your free account plan expires, your account closes automatically, and you lose access to your resources and data. 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The corpus records AWS as a card-gated trial (`microsoft-azure-free-account` style, and `amazon-web-services-free-tier` as a card trial), and that is out of date: AWS's new signup states that most new customers are not asked for a payment method, and the Free plan carries a 750-hour-a-month t4g.small allowance on top of the credits. Four caveats, and the first is the important one. (1) 'Most' is not 'all': the page says a payment method may be requested for additional verification, and when it is, USD 1 is held for 3 to 5 days. That is a real possibility, not a certainty, so the row is caveated rather than clean. (2) The Free plan closes the account at six months or when the credits run out, and the credits are spendable on anything, so an expensive shape burns the plan early and a cheap one does not extend it. (3) The t4g.small trial is advertised until 2026-12-31, which is about two months from this reading, so a person starting now gets the shorter of six months and that date. (4) The 750 hours are per month, so a single instance at 24/7 uses the whole allowance and a second instance is billed. Egress for this shape is not published on any page read. This record does not supersede `amazon-web-services-free-tier`, which prices the credit offer; it adds the no-card signup path and the specific free instance shapes, which the corpus did not have.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"note":"t4g.small: 2 vCPU Graviton2, 2 GiB, 20% baseline CPU with 24 burst credits an hour, network burst to 5 Gbps; EBS volume is separate and its free allowance was not read"},"billing_model":"free","term":"6 months on the Free plan, with the t4g trial advertised to 2026-12-31","m10h_usd":0,"m24h_usd":0,"price_arithmetic":"USD 0.00 for up to 750 hours a month of t4g.small while the Free plan is open; 750 hours covers a 730-hour month with 20 hours spare, so one instance runs continuously at no charge","free_tier_kind":"trial","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"security groups, all ports configurable; a public IPv4 is assignable","static_ip":null,"ipv6":true,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"no per-instance reap; the six-month Free plan is the clock, plus a 3-month-unused reclaim with 30 days' notice"},"signup_url":"https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=builderId","credit_usd":200,"credit_hours_at_shape":"the t4g.small allowance is hours, not credit: 750 h/month at USD 0.00, so the credit is not consumed by this instance while it stays inside the allowance","card_hold_usd":1,"card_hold_note":"USD 1 held for 3 to 5 days, and only when a payment method is requested; the page states most new customers are not asked for one","payment_methods":"none required for most new signups; cards and debit cards accepted when a payment method is requested"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":750,"unit":"hours","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":750,"unit":"hours","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[3].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}