AWS Free Tier (Egress and tunnels)
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: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 100/TB-month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota$100 to $200 of egress at $0.09 per GB is 1.01 to 2.02 TiB, plus 100 GB a month free
- Evidence
- documented3 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 ... 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 downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 100 to 200 of credit |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota at 1 TiB a month the $100 of guaranteed credit is spent in about 35 days, and the 100 GB a month free egress covers only a tenth of one month. The 6-month clock is not what stops it; the money is. |
| Identity | card 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' |
| Egress | $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; ingress: udp free allowance: $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 |
| Interface | cli, rest AWS CLI and the EC2 API |
| Tooling | wg-quick on the instance; AWS CLI for the security group and Elastic IP |
| Composes with | one EC2 instance for up to 6 months on the credit, with the 100 GB a month free egress as the only recurring free volume |
| Reliability | the account and every resource in it are closed at 6 months without conversion to a paid plan |
| 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. The always-free line, which the page describes as '30+ AWS services are always free within monthly usage limits', does not include a t3.micro with a public IPv4. |
| Evidence note | documented 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 |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | aws.amazon.com/free/ | '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' |
| 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 | b0.p.awsstatic.com/pricing/2.0/meteredUnitMaps/datatransfer/ | 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 |
More fields 7
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"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"
}Unknown values 2
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