AWS Free Tier (EC2)
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
egress/amazon-web-services-free-tiersays fails-egress, egress/aws-free-tier says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- When you create a new AWS Free Tier account, you get $100 in credits immediately.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card required, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota100 GB of data transfer out to the internet each month, aggregated across services and regions
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | When you create a new AWS Free Tier account, you get $100 in credits immediately. As you explore key services, you can earn up to $100 more. That's up to $200 over 6 months to build, break things, and experiment with no charges and no surprise bills on the Free plan. 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 |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0 on the Free plan for 6 months; the 100 GB a month egress allowance is free on every account |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota 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 | card (placeholder) 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 |
| Egress | 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 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). |
| Interface | ssh 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 |
| Composes with | 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 |
| Reliability | 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 |
| Notes | The 750 hours for 12 months that was asked to confirm is not on any page read: 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. |
| Evidence note | documented the 100 GB line and the 6-month plan are on AWS pages read; the identity instrument and any per-service hour allowance are not, so those parts stay unverified |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ | '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).' |
| 2026-10-23 | aws.amazon.com/free/ | '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.' |
| 2026-10-23 | aws.amazon.com/ec2/ | 'The free plan is available for 6 months after account creation' and no 750-hour figure on the EC2 product page |
| 2026-10-23 | docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/security-group-rule | a security group rule names protocol 17 (UDP) and a single port, so UDP ingress is expressible and 51820 is not special |
More fields 7
{
"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. You can specify a single port number (for example, 22)', so 51820/udp is one rule and wg-quick runs natively",
"ingress": "udp",
"volume_tib_month": 0.091,
"volume_stated": "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).",
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "bytes leave through the instance's public address and are aggregated with every other AWS service's egress into the same 100 GB"
}Unknown values 2
$.per_object_cap.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer$.retention.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer