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- Free allowance
- The Linux/Unix general purpose ladder now starts at USD 5/month: 0.5 GB memory, 2 vCPUs, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 TB of transfer is the wall at this rung, and it is the smallest allowance on the ladder: the 1 GB plan doubles it for USD 2 more
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | The Linux/Unix general purpose ladder now starts at USD 5/month: 0.5 GB memory, 2 vCPUs, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer. The next rung is USD 7/month with 1 GB, 2 vCPUs, 40 GB SSD and 2 TB transfer. USD 12 buys 2 GB, 2 vCPUs, 60 GB SSD. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 1 TB of transfer is the wall at this rung, and it is the smallest allowance on the ladder: the 1 GB plan doubles it for USD 2 more source
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| Identity | card not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | USD 5 buys a fixed bundle with 1 TB of transfer included, which makes it the cheapest way to get an AWS-adjacent static address with an included egress allowance rather than a metered one |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The first rung on the extracted ladder is USD 5 for 0.5 GB |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ | first Linux/Unix general purpose rung is '$5 USD/mo' with 0.5 GB memory, 2 vCPUs, 20 GB SSD disk, 1 TB transfer, quoted from the plan table |
| 2026-10-22 | aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ | second rung '$7 USD/mo' with 1 GB memory, 2 vCPUs, 40 GB SSD, 2 TB transfer; third '$12 USD/mo' with 2 GB, 2 vCPUs, 60 GB SSD |
| 2026-10-22 | aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ | a case-insensitive grep for free, trial, 3 months and hourly over the extracted text returned nothing, and the first row of the Linux ladder is USD 5; that is absence of a free lane in the extraction, not proof that no trial exists elsewhere on the site |
More fields 1
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"gpu_class": null,
"gpu_count": null
}
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}Unknown values 7
$.egress.metered egress metering was not published$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field$.interface the access interface was not established$.per_object_cap.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed$.retention.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field