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The 6-month clock is not what stops it; the money is.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"a credit or debit card at signup for identity verification; the page says 'You won't be charged unless you convert to a Paid plan'","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"the account and every resource in it are closed at 6 months without conversion to a paid plan","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the rate comes from the machine-readable price feed the EC2 pricing page renders, at us-east-1; a probe would confirm the same rate is charged against a trial's credits, which needs an account","evidence":[{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/free/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'you get $100 in credits immediately ... you can earn up to $100 more. That's up to $200 over 6 months' and '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/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://b0.p.awsstatic.com/pricing/2.0/meteredUnitMaps/datatransfer/USD/current/datatransfer.json","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the price feed the EC2 page renders: us-east-1 'DataTransfer External Outbound Next 10 TB' price 0.0900000000 and 'DataTransfer External Inbound' price 0.0000000000, published 2026-09-16"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 100 to 200 of credit","notes":"Arithmetic: $100 over $0.09 a GB is 1,111 GB = 1.01 TiB, and $200 is 2,222 GB = 2.02 TiB. Spread across the 6 months the account lives, $100 is $16.67 a month, or 185 GB, plus the 100 GB free each month, so 285 GB = 0.28 TiB a month; with the full $200 it is 0.43 TiB. The old 12-month Free Tier with 100 GB a month egress for a year is gone from this page; what replaced it is a credit that a reader has to earn half of. Candidates considered: the always-free line, which the page describes as '30+ AWS services are always free within monthly usage limits' and which does not include a t3.micro with a public IPv4 in this reading.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"an EC2 instance with an Elastic IP or a public IPv4; wg-quick binds UDP natively","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":0.26,"volume_stated":"$100 of credit at $0.09 per GB is 1.01 TiB, or $200 for 2.02 TiB, plus 100 GB a month free; across 6 months that is 0.26 to 0.43 TiB a month","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"the instance's outbound bytes cross Amazon's network and are metered as data transfer out to the internet"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":2.02,"unit":"TiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":100,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":100,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"egress/amazon-web-services-free-tier","other":"egress/aws-free-tier","field":"verdict","a":"fails-egress","b":"fails-quota","detail":null}]}