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The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"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).; ingress: udp","metered":true,"free_allowance":"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).","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"SSH to the instance's public IPv4 or IPv6 address, with a security group rule for any further port","tooling":"wg-quick, nothing vendor-specific","chaining":"100 GB a month is a signalling or control-plane allowance, not a data path; it does not compose into a 1 TiB a month chain at any price of zero","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"100 GB of data transfer out to the internet each month, aggregated across services and regions","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"the Free plan account closes 6 months after creation or when credits run out","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"100 GB a month is 3.33 GB a day, 9.1% of 1 TiB a month, so a run at a 1 TiB/month pace exhausts the allowance in about 2.7 days; the 6-month account closure sits behind it and would matter only to an idle account","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"unverified on the pages read: neither aws.amazon.com/free nor its FAQ states the signup instrument, so a card is recorded as the expected instrument and not as a quoted term","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"the Free plan closes the account 6 months after creation or when the credits run out, whichever comes first; nothing in the pages read says an EC2 instance survives that","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the 100 GB line and the 6-month plan are on AWS pages read today; the identity instrument and any per-service hour allowance are not, so those parts stay unverified","evidence":[{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'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).'"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'up to $200 over 6 months ... The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first.'"},{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'The free plan is available for 6 months after account creation' and no 750-hour figure on the EC2 product page"},{"url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/security-group-rules.html","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"a security group rule names protocol 17 (UDP) and a single port, so UDP ingress is expressible and 51820 is not special"}],"verdict":"fails-egress","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0 on the Free plan for 6 months; the 100 GB a month egress allowance is free on every account","notes":"The 750 hours for 12 months that was asked to confirm is not on any page read today: aws.amazon.com/free, its free-tier FAQ, the EC2 product page and the EC2 on-demand pricing page all describe USD 200 of credits over a 6-month Free plan, and none carries a per-service hour allowance. The offer appears to have been restructured around credits; whether a 750-hour line survives on a page not read is open, and the pages read do not support the claim. The 100 GB allowance is separate from the plan and is standing for all customers.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"a security group rule takes a protocol number and a port range: 'The most common protocols are 6 (TCP), 17 (UDP), and 1 (ICMP)' and 'For TCP, UDP, or a custom protocol, the range of ports to allow. 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