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AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program Storage

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aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/ · iaas · storage/aws-open-data-sponsorship-program · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

Free tierNo published byte cap - 'covers the cost of Amazon S3 storage and data transfer for high-value cloud-optimized public datasets'. Registry datasets run to hundreds of TB; the programme as a whole is reported at 300+ PB.
unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retention90-day wind-down with data retrieval after termination. (90 days)
EgressFree to the public - programme covers 'distribution costs such as egress and cross-region data fees'. Direct S3 HTTPS GETs, no requester-pays.
Identitycard (placeholder) inferred from the category 'iaas'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Limits
  • write-gated review looks at usage metrics source
  • write-gated review, ~2-week decision source
2-year term from acceptance, auto-terminates, renewable only if AWS offers ('AWS may offer to extend your participation prior to the end of the 2-year term'); renewal review looks at usage metrics. Rolling review, ~2-week decision. Licence must be permissive (CC BY 4.0 recommended; CC BY-NC and BY-ND barred). Account must be dedicated to the dataset - no compute, no other services. 90-day wind-down with data retrieval after termination.
Bindingwrite-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
Interfaces3-compatible, rclone, cli s3
ToolingPlain S3 API; rclone 's3' backend; AWS CLI; anonymous HTTPS GET for consumers.
Composes withOne dedicated AWS account per dataset, each uncapped. Multiple datasets = multiple applications. Dataset can then be re-served through Cloudflare in front of S3 for further egress cover.
ReliabilityProduction S3; no data loss. The failure mode is review: a dataset that stops looking 'high-value' or stops growing does not get renewed, and the bill reverts to you.
NotesNo published byte cap - 'covers the cost of Amazon S3 storage and data transfer for high-value cloud-optimized public datasets'. Registry datasets run to hundreds of TB; the programme as a whole is reported at 300+ PB.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/'covers the cost of storing and sharing publicly available, high-value, cloud-optimized datasets'; 'We evaluate applications on a rolling basis'; decisions 'generally within a two-week period'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/terms/(last updated 2025-09-11) - 'The term of your Program participation will be 2 years from the Effective Date, at which point it will automatically terminate'; wind-down 'no fewer than 90 days'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/opendata/faqs/'The program covers Amazon S3 storage costs for the specific dataset approved... as well as distribution costs such as egress'
2026-10-21application.opendata.aws/form asks dataset size, growth rate GB/yr, formats, licence; no stated geography filter
Unknown or withheld values (5)
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Amazon Polly Compute

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aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/ · inference API · compute/amazon-polly · JSON · compare

Free tier'For Amazon Polly's Standard voices, the free tier includes 5 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests.' The Neural allowance is '1 million characters per month ... for the first 12 months', Long-Form '500 thousand characters per month ... for the first 12 months' and Generative '100 thousand characters per month for speech requests, for the first 12 months'. The vendor's own conversion is '1 million characters ... ~23 hours, 8 min', so 5 million Standard characters a month is about 115 hours of speech.
unit hours; metered on wall-clock; recurring-monthly-allowance
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identitycard not published
Limits
  • volume-quota the Standard allowance is monthly and perpetual but the account is an AWS account with a payment instrument, and the free plan that new customers get lasts '6 months after account creation' for credits, so the stable figure is the 5 million characters, not any credit. source
the Standard allowance is monthly and perpetual but the account is an AWS account with a payment instrument, and the free plan that new customers get lasts '6 months after account creation' for credits, so the stable figure is the 5 million characters, not any credit.
Bindingvolume-quota the Standard allowance is monthly and perpetual but the account is an AWS account with a payment instrument, and the free plan that new customers get lasts '6 months after account creation' for credits, so the stable figure is the 5 million characters, not any credit.
Interfacerest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes with115 hours of speech a month from Standard voices is enough to narrate a book a month, and it composes with any free object store for the audio. What breaks: the good voices are on the 12-month clock, so after a year the same pipeline drops to Standard quality or starts billing at USD 16 per million characters for Neural.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThese are inference credits, not general compute. The distinction that matters is Standard versus the rest: Standard is permanent, everything better is a first-year allowance. AWS also replaced the old free tier with 'up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' for new customers from 2025-07-15, whose free plan 'will be available for 6 months', which is a separate and smaller lane. The 115-hour figure is the vendor's own conversion, not ours.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/'For Amazon Polly's Standard voices, the free tier includes 5 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests', quoted; the 12-month qualifier applies to Neural, Long-Form and Generative and not to Standard
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/'1,000 requests, 1,000 characters per request | 1 million characters | ~23 hours, 8 min', quoted from the vendor's own character-to-hours table
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/'Amazon Polly's Standard voices are priced at $4.00 per 1 million characters ... Neural voices ... $16.00 ... Long-Form ... $100.00 ... Generative ... $30 per 1 million', quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/'the free tier includes 1 million characters per month for Neural voices ... for the first 12 months', quoted, which dates the better voices to the first year
More fields (1)
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Unknown or withheld values (9)
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  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.identity_cost.detail process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
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Amazon Q Developer Compute

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aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/amazon-q-developer · JSON · compare

Free tierAmazon Q Developer Free Tier: "Included agentic requests (Q&A chat, agentic coding) | 50 agentic requests per month" and "1,000 lines of code per month" for Java transformation, with "Access latest Claude models", quoted
unit none; metered on wall-clock; recurring-allowance
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identityemail email: the pricing page states the perpetual Free Tier is 'available to users logged in as an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or AWS Builder ID user', and 'Free Tier limits in the IDE are available only to Builder ID users', so the gate is a Builder ID or an IAM user under an AWS account. Whether a card is required at signup, and whether any hold is taken, is not stated in any evidence row: unknown; the record's chaining field asserts a Builder ID needs no card, but no evidence row says so.
Limits
  • request-rate 50 agentic requests a month is about two a working day, so one long refactor consumes the month. source
50 agentic requests a month is about two a working day, so one long refactor consumes the month.
Bindingrequest-rate 50 agentic requests a month is about two a working day, so one long refactor consumes the month.
Interfacecli inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withan AWS Builder ID needs no card and no AWS spend, so this is a $0 lane to a frontier Claude model through an IDE plugin and a CLI; it composes with any repository and is the cheapest frontier-model access per unit of identity.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe gate is narrower than an email address: the IDE lane needs a Builder ID specifically, and IAM-user limits count at the account level. The 1,000 LOC Java upgrade is a separate quota and is the larger of the two in practice.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/the pricing table gives Free 50 agentic requests per month and 1,000 lines of code per month for transformation, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/"Amazon Q Developer offers a perpetual Free Tier with monthly limits available to users logged in as an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or AWS Builder ID user." and "Free Tier limits in the IDE are available only to Builder ID users." quoted
More fields (1)
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Unknown or withheld values (8)
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  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
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AWS Activate, Founders Compute

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aws.amazon.com/aws-startups/learn/applying-for-aws-activate- · cloud VM · compute/aws-activate-founders · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

Free tierThe Activate Founders tier offers USD 1,000 in AWS Activate Credits, plus USD 350 in AWS Developer Support credits, valid for two years. Eligibility: new to AWS Activate Credits, self-funded, a fully functioning company website, founded in the past 10 years, and a business email matching the startup domain. AWS states: 'If you do not have an Org ID, you are initially eligible for the Founders Package.'
unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identityemail No incorporation requirement appears in the English eligibility list or the seven-step application guide. The gates are an AWS Builder ID, a business email matching a startup domain (the guide says to use the business email for the Builder ID and the Activate profile), a live company website, and a linked AWS account.
Limits
  • write-gated The review fails first: AWS has unpublished internal requirements, applications go unedited once submitted, and reports of repeated rejection for legitimate applicants are common. After approval the two-year expiry and the USD 1,000 size are what bind. source
The review fails first: AWS has unpublished internal requirements, applications go unedited once submitted, and reports of repeated rejection for legitimate applicants are common. After approval the two-year expiry and the USD 1,000 size are what bind.
Bindingwrite-gated The review fails first: AWS has unpublished internal requirements, applications go unedited once submitted, and reports of repeated rejection for legitimate applicants are common. After approval the two-year expiry and the USD 1,000 size are what bind.
Interfaces3-compatible inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withUSD 1,000 of EC2 and S3 plus USD 350 of Developer Support is the cheapest entry point at AWS and it does not disqualify a later Portfolio application, so the chain is Founders now, Portfolio after any accelerator affiliation. It composes with the Kiro Startup Credits promotion, which excludes applicants who already hold Activate credits.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Notesthe evidence reversed that verdict in the same session. AWS's seven-step application guide and its Japanese getting-started page both name a website, a domain business email and a LinkedIn profile rather than a legal entity, and one third-party tracker records solo-founder eligibility as yes. The residual risk is the unpublished internal review, which is where rejections actually happen. The corpus record dossier/storage/aws-activate.json merges both tiers and marks it qualifies-with-caveat with a garbled derived identity_cost; its numbers stand, its identity field does not.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/aws-startups/learn/applying-for-aws-activate-the Founders eligibility list is new to Activate, self-funded, a fully functioning company website and founded in the past 10 years, with no incorporation term, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/aws-startups/learn/applying-for-aws-activate-'If you do not have an Org ID, you are initially eligible for the Founders Package', and the guide requires a business email matching the startup domain, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/jp/activate/gettingstarted/the Japanese AWS page lists the required fields for Founders as an AWS account ID, a company website or web profile, and the applicant's LinkedIn profile, and states crowdfunding and friends-and-family funded startups remain eligible, quoted and translated
2026-10-22repost.aws/questions/QUq-hqNzjaTq-9-IBFvxdhlg/repeated-rejecan AWS re:Post answer states that meeting the published criteria does not guarantee approval and that AWS has internal requirements beyond the public list, reported
More fields (1)
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Unknown or withheld values (8)
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  • $.egress.terms not-stated
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime / Code Interpreter / Browser) Compute

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aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/aws-agentcore · JSON · compare

Free tiernot published
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate USD 0.0895 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.00945 per GB-hour on v1 runtime microVMs source
  • per-object-cap the credit is 'up to $200' for new customers and is not a recurring allowance source
not stated
Bindingrequest-rate
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the AgentCore pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and establishes the vCPU-hour and GB-hour rates and the up-to-$200 new-customer credit. The credit is described as 'up to', so the record keeps the card's figure at reported rather than restating it as documented
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/'Runtime microVMs: v1 CPU $0.0895 per vCPU-hour, v1 Memory $0.00945 per GB-hour' and 'v2 CPU 0.1276 per vCPU-hour (consumption)' and 'New AWS customers receive up to $200 in Free Tier credits', quoted
More fields (15)
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  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "the page states no session cap for a runtime microVM"
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Unknown or withheld values (19)
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AWS Cloud Credits Compute

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aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-cloud-credits-for-open-s · cloud VM · compute/aws-cloud-credits · JSON · compare

Free tierQuoted: 'we've provided AWS Promotional Credits to more than 200 different open source projects' since the programme 'launched in 2019', and the credits 'can be used on compute resources, storage, database services, development tools, and testing infrastructure'. Applications are an Excel form emailed to [address removed], reviewed and issued 'on a monthly basis', and 'The credits will expire after one year'.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; recurring-credit
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identitycard an active AWS account carrying a valid payment method on file: the 2019 programme post states 'you will need an active AWS Account, including a valid payment method on file', and the record's binding note adds that no outstanding invoices may exist. The authorisation amount is not stated; whether debit or prepaid is accepted is not stated; whether a phone or tax identity is required at AWS signup is not stated
Limits
  • write-gated An active AWS account with a valid payment method and no outstanding invoices is required before applying, review is monthly, and December issues no credits at all. source
An active AWS account with a valid payment method and no outstanding invoices is required before applying, review is monthly, and December issues no credits at all.
Bindingwrite-gated An active AWS account with a valid payment method and no outstanding invoices is required before applying, review is monthly, and December issues no credits at all.
Interfaces3-compatible inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withCredits that cover 'compute resources, storage, database services' are the broadest instrument after a cash grant: the same balance pays for EC2 spot time, S3 and a managed database, so a whole pipeline runs on one award.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe amount per project is not published on either AWS page, so the number is null; the two public figures are 200+ recipient projects and a one-year expiry, neither of which is a per-project size. My first read of the 2025 post attached its '$3 million annual commitment' to this programme; Two eligibility lines tilt toward teams: 'not dominated by a single vendor' and a preference for maintainers from multiple entities, which is softer than Datadog's rule and does not exclude a solo maintainer outright. The 2019 post and the 2025 post give different application addresses (awsopen@ and [address removed]), so use the current form.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-cloud-credits-for-open-squoted 'we've provided AWS Promotional Credits to more than 200 different open source projects', the Excel form and [address removed], the monthly review, the December pause, and the eligibility condition that organisations must have an OSI-approved licence and 'not be dominated by a single vendor or VC-funded' [published 2025-03-31]. The same post records a separate 'extended $3 million annual commitment to the Kubernetes project', which is not an amount for this credits programme and is not used as one here
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-openquoted 'you will need an active AWS Account, including a valid payment method on file', the OSI licence requirement, 'We'll also generally favor projects with maintainers from multiple entities or that are owned by foundations', and 'The credits will expire after one year' [published 2019-10-14]
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/awscredits/the promotional credit terms page carries a 'Last Updated: September 24, 2026' date, so the credit instrument is current
More fields (1)
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  "shape": null
 }
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Unknown or withheld values (8)
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  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
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  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS CodeBuild Compute

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aws.amazon.com/codebuild/pricing/ · platform host · compute/aws-codebuild · JSON · compare

Free tiernot published
unit none; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate billed per build minute, rounded up from submission to termination; per-second billing on some instance types source
not stated
Bindingrequest-rate
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the CodeBuild pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and establishes the minute rounding and the instance rates.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/codebuild/pricing/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/codebuild/pricing/'Build duration is calculated in minutes, from the time you submit your build until your build is terminated, rounded up to the nearest minute' and the per-minute instance pricing table, quoted
More fields (15)
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 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "the page states no build wall-clock cap; rounding is the billed unit, not a reap"
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 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 1,
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 "burst_x": 1.0,
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Unknown or withheld values (19)
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  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.keep_rate_basis process
  • $.extras.price_note process
  • $.free_tier.notes withheld
  • $.free_tier.stated process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
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  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
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AWS Fargate Compute

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aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/aws-fargate · JSON · compare

Free tiernot published
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate per second with a 1-minute minimum on Linux and 5 minutes on Windows; the container image pull is billed source
  • retention-clamped Fargate has no persistent disk beyond the ephemeral task storage; a stopped task loses it source
not stated
Bindingrequest-rate
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the Fargate pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and establishes the per-second billing, the 1-minute Linux minimum, the 5-minute Windows minimum and that the image pull is billed.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:request-rate 5.0 minutes
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/'Pricing is calculated per second with a 1-minute minimum. Duration is calculated from the time you start to download your container image' and 'For Windows containers, billing is calculated per second with a 5-minute minimum', quoted
More fields (15)
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  "restart_required": false,
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  "durability": "ephemeral",
  "survives_stop": false,
  "survives_destroy": false,
  "max_retention": "the task lifetime"
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Unknown or withheld values (20)
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  • $.evidence[0].proved process
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Amazon Web Services (Free plan) Compute

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aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/ · VPS · compute/aws-free-plan-t4g · JSON · compare

Free tierQuoted from the t4g page: 'Free Trial: Try Amazon EC2 t4g.small instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors free for up to 750 hours / month until Dec 31st 2026.' Quoted from the signup FAQ: 'With Sign up for AWS (new), most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started.' The Free plan runs 6 months or until the credits are spent: 'Your free account plan ends after six months or when your credits are fully used - whichever occurs first.'
unit hours; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object cap750 hours a month of t4g.small, which is one instance running continuously; the Free plan also names T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, C7i-flex.large and M7i-flex.large as eligible
RetentionQuoted: 'After your free account plan expires, your account closes automatically, and you lose access to your resources and data. AWS retains your content for 90 days before permanently deleting your account and all associated resources.'
EgressQuoted: '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).' The marginal rate beyond 100 GB was not read on a page today, so it is not recorded as a number.
free_allowance: 100 GB per month, aggregated across services
Identityemail no card for most new customers: quoted 'With Sign up for AWS (new), most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started. In some cases, we may ask for additional verification to protect your account.' When a card is asked for, the hold is USD 1: quoted 'Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days to verify your account and help prevent fraud; however, your card will not be charged'. Signup supports 'Google, GitHub, Apple, or Amazon' as the identity provider.
Limits
  • retention-clamped the Free plan ends at 6 months or when the USD 100 to 200 of credits is spent, whichever comes first source
  • retention-clamped the t4g.small free trial itself is advertised until 2026-12-31 source
  • volume-quota 750 hours a month, so one instance at 24/7 and no second one source
  • write-gated a payment method may be requested for additional verification; when it is, USD 1 is held for 3 to 5 days source
Bindingretention-clamped Six months is a hard stop with automatic account closure, and the t4g.small trial has its own advertised end date of 2026-12-31, so the machine has two clocks and the earlier one wins.
Interfacessh, rest, cli A real EC2 instance with an SSH key pair, a public IPv4 or IPv6 address, security groups, and the full AWS API and CLI
Toolingany SSH client; the AWS CLI or console
Composes withA 2 vCPU / 2 GiB Graviton instance running 24/7 for six months, at no charge and usually with no card: the strongest no-card find after the credit offers, and the one that most directly contradicts the corpus's assumption that AWS means a card.
ReliabilityNo reliability event observed. The vendor states it may reclaim resources unused for 3 months: 'If you have not used the AWS resources provided under an Offer during the previous 3 months, we may reclaim those AWS resources after giving you 30 days' notice.'
NotesThe most consequential correction makes. The corpus records AWS as a card-gated trial (microsoft-azure-free-account style, and amazon-web-services-free-tier as a card trial), and that is out of date: AWS's new signup states that most new customers are not asked for a payment method, and the Free plan carries a 750-hour-a-month t4g.small allowance on top of the credits. Four caveats, and the first is the important one. (1) 'Most' is not 'all': the page says a payment method may be requested for additional verification, and when it is, USD 1 is held for 3 to 5 days. That is a real possibility, not a certainty, so the row is caveated rather than clean. (2) The Free plan closes the account at six months or when the credits run out, and the credits are spendable on anything, so an expensive shape burns the plan early and a cheap one does not extend it. (3) The t4g.small trial is advertised until 2026-12-31, which is about two months from this reading, so a person starting now gets the shorter of six months and that date. (4) The 750 hours are per month, so a single instance at 24/7 uses the whole allowance and a second instance is billed. Egress for this shape is not published on any page read. This record does not supersede amazon-web-services-free-tier, which prices the credit offer; it adds the no-card signup path and the specific free instance shapes, which the corpus did not have.
Evidence rungdocumented The t4g.small free trial, its 750-hour allowance, the 2026-12-31 end date, the Free plan's six-month life, the automatic account closure and the 'most new customers' payment-method statement are all quoted from AWS's own pages read today. The egress allowance for this shape is not on any page read, so it is recorded as unstated rather than filled in.
Checked2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers
  • $.extras.m10h_usd price USD0.0 / month
  • $.extras.m24h_usd price USD0.0 / month
  • $.limits[2].value limit:volume-quota 750.0 hours / month
Evidence (11)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/quoted: 'Free Trial: Try Amazon EC2 t4g.small instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors free for up to 750 hours / month until Dec 31st 2026.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t4/quoted instance table: 't4g.micro | 2 | 1 | 10% | 12 | Up to 5 | Up to 2,085' and 't4g.small | 2 | 2 | 20% | 24 | Up to 5 | Up to 2,085' (vCPU, GiB, baseline, CPU credits, burst Gbps, EBS Mbps)
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/quoted: 'With Sign up for AWS (new), most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started. In some cases, we may ask for additional verification to protect your account.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/quoted: 'Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days to verify your account and help prevent fraud; however, your card will not be charged, and you will not incur any costs as long as you remain on the Free plan.'
2026-10-24docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.htquoted: 'When you sign up for AWS, we might request payment information. Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days to verify your account and prevent fraud.' and 'Sign up for AWS (new) supports using Google, GitHub, Apple, or Amazon for your account.'
2026-10-24docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tiquoted: 'Your free account plan ends after six months or when your credits are fully used - whichever occurs first.' and 'After your free account plan expires, your account closes automatically, and you lose access to your resources and data. AWS retains your content for 90 days before permanently deleting your account'
2026-10-24docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-free-tier-usquoted for accounts created on or after 2025-07-15: eligible instance types are 't3.micro, t3.small, t4g.micro, t4g.small, c7i-flex.large, m7i-flex.large' and 'Your Free Tier lasts for 6 months from the date you created your account, or when your credits are used up, whichever happens first. You can't exceed your Free Tier limits.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/free/compute/quoted: 'Free plan eligible instances include: T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large, M7i-flex.large'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/free/quoted: '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.' and 'The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/free/terms/quoted: 'If you have not used the AWS resources provided under an Offer during the previous 3 months, we may reclaim those AWS resources after giving you 30 days' notice.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/quoted: '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).'
More fields (15)
{
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 2,
  "ram_gib": 2,
  "disk_gib": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null,
  "note": "t4g.small: 2 vCPU Graviton2, 2 GiB, 20% baseline CPU with 24 burst credits an hour, network burst to 5 Gbps; EBS volume is separate and its free allowance was not read"
 },
 "billing_model": "free",
 "term": "6 months on the Free plan, with the t4g trial advertised to 2026-12-31",
 "m10h_usd": 0,
 "m24h_usd": 0,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 0.00 for up to 750 hours a month of t4g.small while the Free plan is open; 750 hours covers a 730-hour month with 20 hours spare, so one instance runs continuously at no charge",
 "free_tier_kind": "trial",
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "security groups, all ports configurable; a public IPv4 is assignable",
  "static_ip": null,
  "ipv6": true,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "no per-instance reap; the six-month Free plan is the clock, plus a 3-month-unused reclaim with 30 days' notice"
 },
 "signup_url": "https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=builderId",
 "credit_usd": 200,
 "credit_hours_at_shape": "the t4g.small allowance is hours, not credit: 750 h/month at USD 0.00, so the credit is not consumed by this instance while it stays inside the allowance",
 "card_hold_usd": 1.0,
 "card_hold_note": "USD 1 held for 3 to 5 days, and only when a payment method is requested; the page states most new customers are not asked for one",
 "payment_methods": "none required for most new signups; cards and debit cards accepted when a payment method is requested"
}

AWS Lambda Compute

caveatemail?card?Dper-object-cap

aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/aws-lambda · JSON · compare

Free tier400,000 GB-seconds and 1 million requests a month, recurring; Provisioned Concurrency is excluded from the free tier
unit seconds; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate 1 million requests a month on the free tier source
  • per-object-cap 400,000 GB-seconds a month on the free tier; Provisioned Concurrency is billed and excluded source
not stated
Bindingper-object-cap the credit expires with the 6-month account window
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungdocumented the Lambda pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. The free tier is stated in GB-seconds and requests, recurring monthly, which is a different product from the one-time credit the record carried
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[1].value limit:per-object-cap 400000.0 GB
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/'The monthly compute price is $0.0000166667 per GB-s and the free tier provides 400,000 GB-s' and 'The monthly request price is $0.20 per one million requests and the free tier provides 1 million requests per month' and 'The Lambda free tier does not apply to functions enabling Provisioned Concurrency', quoted
More fields (15)
{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 41.13,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 108.33,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": null,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": "always-on by contract",
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": 15,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "the page states no session cap; Lambda's own limit is 15 minutes per invocation"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
 "catalogue_field_warning": "free_monthly_credit conflates a recurring grant with a one-time grant divided by a month",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0.001,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "net": null
}
Unknown or withheld values (16)
  • $.chaining not-stated
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.price_note process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-stated
  • $.tooling not-stated

Corrections

AWS Lambda MicroVMs Compute

caveatemail?card?Rrequest-rate

aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/aws-lambda-microvms · JSON · compare

Free tiernot published
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate priced per request and per GB-second; the free tier is 400,000 GB-seconds and 1 million requests a month source
not stated
Bindingrequest-rate
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the Lambda pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and carries no microVM line item, so the record's microVM framing is not established by it.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:request-rate 400000.0 GB
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/the Lambda pricing page was re-read on 2026-10-22 and still prices GB-seconds and requests; it states no microVM product and no USD 200 credit
More fields (15)
{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 75.66,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 181.58,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": 75.66,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": 15,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "15 minutes per invocation is the platform limit; the page states no longer wall clock"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 1.0,
 "net": null
}
Unknown or withheld values (20)
  • $.chaining not-stated
  • $.confidence_note partly-held
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.keep_rate_basis process
  • $.extras.price_note process
  • $.free_tier.notes withheld
  • $.free_tier.stated withheld
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-stated
  • $.tooling not-stated

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal (Windows) Compute

caveatcardcardDwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/workspaces/desktop-as-a-service/pricing/ · Windows host · compute/aws-workspaces · JSON · compare

Free tier5 Performance AutoStop Ubuntu WorkSpaces with 100 combined hours a month, 80 GB root and 100 GB user volume, free for up to 3 months; a Paid account plan is required at signup
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identitycard 'When creating your AWS account, you'll need to select a Paid account plan to access the WorkSpaces console', quoted from the pricing page read 2026-10-22; a payment method is the gate
Limits
  • request-rate 100 combined hours a month across 5 free Performance AutoStop Ubuntu desktops source
  • retention-clamped the free allowance ends after 3 months; WorkSpaces Pools closed to new customers on 2026-07-31 source
  • write-gated a Paid account plan is required to open the WorkSpaces console, so a free-plan account cannot provision one source
not stated
Bindingwrite-gated
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungdocumented the WorkSpaces pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. The free allowance is 5 Performance AutoStop Ubuntu desktops with 100 combined hours a month for up to 3 months, and the page states that a Paid account plan is required to reach the console at all
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/workspaces/desktop-as-a-service/pricing/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/workspaces/desktop-as-a-service/pricing/'5 Performance AutoStop Ubuntu WorkSpaces with 100 hours combined monthly usage, 80GB root + 100GB user volume, free for up to 3 months' and 'Amazon WorkSpaces Pools will no longer accept new customers beginning July 31, 2026' and 'When creating your AWS account, you'll need to select a Paid account plan to access the WorkSpaces console', quoted
More fields (17)
{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 12.74,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 30.58,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": 84.01,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": "always-on by contract",
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 2,
  "ram": 8,
  "disk": 100,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": 1,
  "note": "Performance bundle: 2 vCPU, 8 GiB, 80 GB root plus 100 GB user volume"
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "AutoStop stops the desktop on disconnect and bills a small monthly access fee instead of the hourly rate"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "trial",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 2.0498,
 "burst_bill": "min 1 h",
 "ps": {
  "gib": 100,
  "price": "billed as part of the bundle",
  "durability": "user volume",
  "on_stop": true,
  "on_destroy": false,
  "retention": "while the WorkSpace exists"
 },
 "net": null
}
Unknown or withheld values (14)
  • $.chaining not-stated
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.price_note process
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-stated
  • $.tooling not-stated

Amazon DynamoDB Databases and KV

caveatcardcardDper-ip-shaping

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/ · key-value and document database · databases-kv/dynamodb · JSON · compare

Free tier25 GB storage, 25 read capacity units and 25 write capacity units, per region per payer account, always free
unit GB; metered on request-count
PriceUSD 0.25/GB-month beyond 25 GB
Per-object cap400 KB per item, which is the DynamoDB engine limit (409600 bytes)
Retentiondata persists while the table exists; no inactivity pause and no expiry clock is published, and the AWS Free Tier page lists DynamoDB under the allowances available on both the 12-month and the always-free plans
Egresstransfer out is billed; the free tier does not include a transfer allowance for DynamoDB
Identitycard an AWS account requires a payment instrument
Limits
  • per-ip-shaping 25 read capacity units and 25 write capacity units, equal to 25 strongly-consistent 4 KB reads a second and 25 1 KB writes a second source
  • per-object-cap 25 GB storage per region; 400 KB per item source
2.5 million Streams read requests a month are also included
Bindingper-ip-shaping
Interfacerest, cli an HTTPS JSON API; the AWS CLI and SDKs; PartiQL
Toolingboto3, the AWS CLI, any DynamoDB SDK
Composes with25 GB that never expires and never pauses, behind an AWS account that needs a card
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Notes25 RCU is the cap, not 25 GB. Twenty-five strongly-consistent reads a second is a prototype's throughput, and 25 GB of storage behind it will never fill.
Evidence rungdocumented the pricing page was read today; the free tier is stated in its own worked examples.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:per-ip-shaping 4.0 KB
  • $.limits[1].value limit:per-object-cap 25.0 GB
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD0.25 GB / month
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/'The AWS Free Tier includes 25 WCUs and 25 RCUs for tables using the DynamoDB Standard table class'; the first 25 GB of storage per region are included; Streams includes 2,500,000 read requests a month
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/free/DynamoDB is listed on the Free Tier page as 'Available on both plans', which places its allowance in the always-free category rather than the 12-month one
Unknown or withheld values (1)
  • $.reliability_note none-observed

Amazon SES Email

caveatcardcardDwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ · transactional sender and relay · email/amazon-ses · JSON · compare

Free tier3,000 message charges/month for the first 12 months, or $200 of AWS credits over 6 months for new accounts
unit requests; metered on request-count
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot applicable: an outbound sender
Identitycard an AWS account with a payment method
Limits
  • request-rate 3,000 message charges per month for 12 months from first use source
  • write-gated the account starts in the sandbox and sends only to verified identities until a quota-increase request is approved source
Bindingwrite-gated the sandbox blocks arbitrary recipients from the first send; the 3,000/month is second.
Interfacerest https://email.REGION.amazonaws.com, and the SES SMTP endpoint
Toolingaws-cli, any SMTP client
Composes withthe cheapest real bulk rate in the topic, USD 0.10 per 1,000, behind a sandbox that every new account starts in. It composes with Plunk self-host as the paid chain.
Reliabilitythe sandbox is a write gate on every new account and the quota increase is a support request
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/'Receive up to 3,000 message charges for free each month for the first 12 months after you start using SES', and the sandbox restriction
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/'Starting July 15, 2025, new AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with a 6-month free plan
More fields (1)
{
 "stale_after_days": 90
}
Unknown or withheld values (1)
  • $.notes withheld

Amazon Photos (Prime) Netdisk and pan

caveatemailno cardRwrite-gated

www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G6PT8TML · retail-ecosystem photo cloud · netdisk-pan/amazon-photos · JSON · compare

Free tier5 GB for every Amazon customer. Unlimited full-resolution photo storage plus 5 GB of video for Amazon Prime members
unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
PriceBundled with Prime at about USD 139/yr; the unlimited photo tier has no standalone price
Per-object cap5 GB of video even on Prime; photos are unlimited. Paid plans exist above 5 GB
RetentionWhile the account and the Prime membership persist; photos are removed from the unlimited tier if Prime lapses
EgressDownloads run through Amazon's CDN, effectively free and fast, but only for objects the account uploaded
Identityemail an Amazon account and a Prime membership. Prime is the price of admission, so unlimited is bundled and not free
Limits
  • per-object-cap 5 GB of video total, even on Prime; photos are unlimited but must be photographs source
  • write-gated cookie authentication with no OAuth or key flow, so the credential is a browser session that expires source
Bindingwrite-gated The capacity is genuinely unlimited for photographs and the gate is the credential: a browser cookie with no OAuth flow, which expires and cannot be renewed programmatically. That makes it a manual-ingest target at any scale.
Interfacerest, cli
Toolingunofficial and cookie-authenticated only: trevorhobenshield/amazon_photos in Python, entourloop/amazon-photo-uploader in Rust, and an MCP server. There is no OAuth and no API key, and every wrapper says cookies expire and must be refreshed by hand. No rclone backend
Composes withThe classic unlimited-photos shape: if arbitrary image bytes are accepted, and they are because it is a photo service, then a photo-shaped payload is free across accounts. The 5 GB video cap is what stops it being a general drive, and the absence of an API stops it being a pipeline
ReliabilityCookie-authenticated wrappers break on any change to Amazon's login flow; the MCP wrapper's own README calls it an unofficial API that may break. Photo-only means ingest may re-encode or reject non-image payloads
NotesBoth seed records are folded in here: one called it qualifies-with-caveat on the unlimited photo tier, another called it a dead end because Prime is paid and the video cap is 5 GB. Both are correct; the verdict is qualifies-with-caveat because the unlimited half is real and the caveat is the cookie auth plus the paid membership.
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GB
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD139.0 TB / year
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G6PT8TML'5 GB of free storage for all Amazon customers. Unlimited full-resolution photo storage, plus 5 GB of video storage, for Amazon Prime members'
2026-10-21www.aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-amazon-photos-uses-amaz'unlimited photo storage and 5 GB of video storage to Amazon Prime members in eight marketplaces'
2026-10-21github.com/trevorhobenshield/amazon_photosa Python client with md5 deduplication that preserves directory structure on upload
2026-10-21github.com/vanessa/immich-amazon-sync'Amazon Photos has no OAuth or API key flow' 'Cookie auth is fragile'
More fields (6)
{
 "access_mode": "paid",
 "free_tier_exists": true,
 "api": "unofficial cookie auth only",
 "aliases": [
  "Amazon Photos (Prime)"
 ],
 "cross_topic_record": "dossier/storage/amazon-photos.json",
 "cross_topic_note": "A record for this provider already exists under the storage topic; this one is scoped to its role as a pan, following the same split dossier/netdisk-pan/lanzou.json uses."
}

AWS Activate (Founders / Portfolio) Storage

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aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-ab · iaas · storage/aws-activate · JSON · compare

Free tierFounders tier: '$1,000 in AWS Activate Credits ... Select startups may qualify for up to $5,000 over time'. Portfolio tier: 'up to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits' for provider-backed (accelerator/VC) startups. Credits cover 'over 200 eligible AWS services' explicitly including 'Storage: ... Amazon S3'.
unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capper-object-cap: S3 single PUT 5 GiB (5368709120 bytes)
Retentionretention: 'Credits usually expire within 1-2 years depending on the package.' (730 days)
EgressS3 egress is metered and billed from the same credit balance — this is an archive-only play unless fronted by Cloudflare (AWS is a Bandwidth Alliance partner).
Identityinstitution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: or greater value'). Portfolio requires an Activate Provider affiliation. The useful multiplier is credit size x expiry window, not account count. per-object-cap: S3 single PUT 5 GiB / multipa
Limits
  • retention-clamped retention: 'Credits usually expire within 1-2 years source
  • per-object-cap per-object-cap: S3 single PUT 5 GiB source
per-object-cap: S3 single PUT 5 GiB / multipart 5 TiB — not binding. request-rate: S3 request rates are effectively unlimited at this scale but each PUT/GET is billed and drains the credit. retention: 'Credits usually expire within 1-2 years depending on the package.'
Bindingper-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interfaces3-compatible, rclone, cli s3
ToolingNative S3 API; rclone backend 's3'; aws-cli; s5cmd for high-concurrency transfers.
Composes withCredits are per AWS account and per organisation ('Have not previously received AWS Activate Credits of equal or greater value'). Portfolio requires an Activate Provider affiliation. The useful multiplier is credit size x expiry window, not account count.
ReliabilityPurely a spend credit: once exhausted, S3 reverts to paid and will bill the card on file. No data-loss mechanism, just an expiry cliff.
NotesFounders tier: '$1,000 in AWS Activate Credits ... Select startups may qualify for up to $5,000 over time'. Portfolio tier: 'up to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits' for provider-backed (accelerator/VC) startups. Credits cover 'over 200 eligible AWS services' explicitly including 'Storage: ... Amazon S3'.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[1].value limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GiB
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-ab'$1,000 ... up to $5,000 over time' (Founders), 'up to $200,000' (Portfolio), 'Credits usually expire within 1-2 years'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-ab'Storage: Lets you store large datasets ... in Amazon S3 without ballooning costs'
2026-10-21withheldprobe: GET aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-about-aws-activate-credits -> 200
Unknown or withheld values (4)
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  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted

AWS Free Tier Compute

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aws.amazon.com/free/ · cloud VM · compute/amazon-web-services-free-tier · JSON · compare

Free tierup to USD 200 in credits over 6 months: USD 100 on signup and up to USD 100 more for completing activities; the account closes after 6 months or when the credits run out
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; there is no always-free EC2 shape for a new account in 2026
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionthe account closes on its own 6 months after it opens or when the credits run out (180 days)
Egressnot part of the free plan terms read; standard EC2 egress applies past any allowance
Identityemail no card for the Free plan for most new customers: 'Most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started. In some cases, we may ask for additional verification to protect your account.'; an email plus an existing Google or GitHub sign-in is enough; the Free plan is USD 100 of credits at signup plus up to USD 100 more over 6 months, and the account closes itself at 6 months or when the credits run out
Limits
  • retention-clamped the account closes 6 months after opening or when credits run out, whichever comes first source
  • request-rate 30 or more services are always free within monthly usage limits, but EC2 compute is not one of them source
the always-free list covers services such as Lambda request counts, not a running VM
Bindingretention-clamped the 6-month window ends the account; every always-free row inside it expires with it
Interfacessh EC2 API, CLI, console; SSH keys chosen at launch
Toolingthe AWS CLI, SDKs, Terraform; a real VM with a public IP
Composes withsix months of a t3-class VM and then a closed account; nothing to build on
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe single most-repeated stale fact in the free-tier discourse: there is no always-free EC2 shape for a new account. The credits are real and they end. AWS's own signup page now states the opposite for the Free plan, and the free page confirms the plan is USD 100 plus up to USD 100 over 6 months with the account closing itself at the end. The corpus document lists AWS as 'card, USD 1 hold'; that row is wrong as of today. What is NOT established: whether the card is demanded later for a specific service, and what the 'additional verification' consists of, since no signup was attempted.
Evidence rungdocumented Payment facts re-read on 2026-10-24: the card types, the hold and the identity gate each come from a first-party page quoted in evidence[].
Checked2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Evidence (5)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/free/USD 100 in credits immediately and up to USD 100 more; up to USD 200 over 6 months
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/free/'The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/start-here/quoted: 'Fast sign up: Create an account with a sign-in method you already have, such as Google or GitHub. No credit card required to start for most new customers.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/start-here/quoted from the raw HTML, because the text extractor drops the FAQ block: 'Do I need a credit card to sign up? Most new customers will not be required to provide a payment method to get started. In some cases, we may ask for additional verification to protect your account.'
2026-10-24aws.amazon.com/free/quoted: '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.'
More fields (10)
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 "session_cap": null,
 "keep_rate": {
  "value": 1.0,
  "basis": "a running instance bills against the credit",
  "source": "https://aws.amazon.com/free/"
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 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "all through a security group",
  "static_ip": "an elastic IP",
  "ipv6": true,
  "per_session_bytes": null
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 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
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  "card_at_signup": "no",
  "debit": "not-applicable",
  "prepaid": "not-applicable",
  "virtual": "not-applicable",
  "hold_amount": null,
  "hold_detail": "no card, so no hold",
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}
Unknown or withheld values (4)
  • $.extras.history_note withheld
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed

AWS Amplify Hosting Compute

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aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/ · platform host · compute/aws-amplify-hosting · JSON · compare

Free tierFree Tier for 12 months: 1,000 build minutes a month on the standard 4 vCPU / 8 GB instance, 5 GB of CDN storage, 15 GB a month of data transfer out, 500,000 server-side rendering requests and 100 GB-hours a month of SSR duration. After 12 months every line is metered, and new accounts since 2025-07-15 get up to USD 200 in credits on a free plan that lasts 6 months.
unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; trial-12-month
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionthe 12-month clock ends the allowance regardless of use, and the build instance is the only 4 vCPU / 8 GB shape, which makes the build minutes the useful part rather than the hosting.
Egressno cost up to 5 GB stored on CDN, 15 GB per month data transfer out, 500,000 SSR requests per month, 100 GB-hours per month SSR duration, quoted
Identitycard not published
Limits
  • retention-clamped the 12-month clock ends the allowance regardless of use, and the build instance is the only 4 vCPU / 8 GB shape, which makes the build minutes the useful part rather than the hosting. source
the 12-month clock ends the allowance regardless of use, and the build instance is the only 4 vCPU / 8 GB shape, which makes the build minutes the useful part rather than the hosting.
Bindingretention-clamped the 12-month clock ends the allowance regardless of use, and the build instance is the only 4 vCPU / 8 GB shape, which makes the build minutes the useful part rather than the hosting.
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes with100 GB-hours a month of SSR is the closest free analogue to a small always-on server, and 1,000 build minutes on 4 vCPU is a real build runner; both end at 12 months, so the composition is a one-year window to build and measure rather than a home.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe 100 GB-hours of SSR duration is the number worth having: at 1 GB of provisioned memory it is 100 hours of server-side render a month, roughly three hours a day, and it is the only hyperscaler allowance denominated in GB-hours. Candidates: (a) the free tier is perpetual for Amplify; refuted, the table says 'Free for 12 months'. (b) A card is required; inferred from AWS account creation, not read on this page. Open: whether the USD 200 credit and the 12-month Amplify tier can both be used, which the page implies but does not state.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:retention-clamped 8.0 GB
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/'Deploy an app with AWS Free Tier: Free for 12 months'; standard instance 8 GB memory, 4 vCPUs, no cost up to 1,000 build minutes per month, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/no cost up to 5 GB stored on CDN, 15 GB per month data transfer out, 500,000 SSR requests per month, 100 GB-hours per month SSR duration, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/from 2025-07-15 new AWS customers get up to USD 200 in Free Tier credits; the free plan is available for 6 months after account creation and all credits must be used within 12 months, quoted
More fields (1)
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   "gpu_count": null
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Unknown or withheld values (7)
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  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS CloudShell Compute

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aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/ · shared shell · compute/aws-cloudshell · JSON · compare

Free tiera browser shell with 1 GB of persistent storage per AWS Region, free with an AWS account
unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes; no inbound SSH endpoint is published
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentiona session persists within the Region; idle sessions end
Egressnot published
Identitycard an AWS account requires a card even for the always-free services
Limits
  • retention-clamped idle sessions end; 1 GB of persistent storage per Region source
  • request-rate no inbound SSH endpoint is published source
the persistent storage is per Region, so it is not one 1 GB directory
Binding
Interfacessh a browser terminal only; the AWS CLI is preconfigured
Toolinga shell with the AWS CLI, git and common runtimes
Composes witha shell that holds 1 GB per Region and cannot be reached from outside
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesA shell for driving the AWS CLI, with 1 GB per Region and no way in. It is a console feature rather than a host.
Evidence rungreported re-read live on 2026-10-22 for the free-tier and limit figures
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:retention-clamped 1.0 GB
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/1 GB of persistent storage per AWS Region; browser terminal only with no inbound SSH
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/read live: 1 GB free persistent storage per Region, browser terminal
More fields (8)
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 "billing_model": "flat-pool",
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "idle sessions end; interval not published"
 },
 "keep_rate": {
  "value": 0.0,
  "basis": "free with the account",
  "source": "https://aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/"
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 "persistent_storage": {
  "included_gib": 1,
  "price_gib_month": "free",
  "durability": "per Region",
  "survives_stop": true,
  "survives_destroy": false,
  "max_retention": "while the account exists"
 },
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": false,
  "ports": "none",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": null,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
 "census_rows": [
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}
Unknown or withheld values (4)
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  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed

AWS EC2 (reference VMs) Compute

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aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ · cloud VM · compute/aws-ec2 · JSON · compare

Free tierUSD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate billed per second with a 60-second minimum; no long-term commitment source
  • per-ip-shaping 100 GB a month of free data transfer out, aggregated across all AWS services and regions source
  • per-object-cap a public IPv4 address is charged whether the instance is in use or idle source
not stated
Bindingper-ip-shaping the 6-month account window ends the offer
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the on-demand pricing page was read on 2026-10-22.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Parsed numbers
  • $.extras.m10h_usd price USD14.73 / month
  • $.extras.m24h_usd price USD36.93 / month
  • $.limits[1].value limit:per-ip-shaping 100.0 GB / month
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/'On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour or second (minimum of 60 seconds) with no long-term commitments' and 'AWS customers receive 100 GB of free data transfer out to the internet free each month, aggregated across all AWS Services and Regions' and 'All In-use and Idle Elastic IP addresses are charged', quoted
More fields (17)
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 "talaria_m24h_usd": 35.35,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": 15.39,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
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 "billing_model": "flat-pool",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
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  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "no session cap; an instance runs until it is stopped or terminated"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "security groups",
  "static_ip": "charged whether in use or idle",
  "ipv6": true,
  "per_session_bytes": "100 GB a month free egress, then metered"
 },
 "price_note": "a VPS bills by the month with an hourly rate capped at the monthly figure, so the two columns answer two questions: destroying the box between runs versus keeping it up.",
 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
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 "m24h_usd": 36.93,
 "price_basis": "10 h/day column = 300 h at the hourly rate, which is what a server destroyed between runs costs; 24/7 column = the monthly cap, because a VPS kept up all month stops at the cap.",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 60,
  "rounding_s": null
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 "burst_x": 1.0
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Unknown or withheld values (18)
  • $.chaining not-stated
  • $.confidence_note partly-held
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.keep_rate_basis process
  • $.free_tier.notes withheld
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-stated
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS EC2 Mac (Dedicated Host) Compute

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aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/ · macOS host · compute/aws-ec2-mac · JSON · compare

Free tierUSD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate no free allowance: a Mac instance bills on the same on-demand model as any other EC2 instance, with a 24-hour minimum allocation source
not stated
Bindingrequest-rate
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the EC2 Mac page was read on 2026-10-22 and offers the instance class with no free allowance of its own.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/the dedicated-Mac page is live and still sells EC2 Mac instances for building and signing Apple apps; it states no free allowance for a Mac instance
More fields (14)
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 "keep_rate": 1.0,
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 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram": null,
  "disk": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null,
  "note": "dedicated Mac mini and Mac Studio hardware"
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 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "Apple's licence forces a 24-hour minimum allocation per dedicated host; the page states no shorter clock"
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 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "none",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 86400,
  "rounding_s": null
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Unknown or withheld values (20)
  • $.chaining not-stated
  • $.confidence_note partly-held
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.keep_rate_basis process
  • $.extras.price_note process
  • $.free_tier.notes withheld
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
  • $.notes withheld
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-stated
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS EC2 (Windows Server) Compute

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aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ · Windows host · compute/aws-ec2-windows · JSON · compare

Free tierUSD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Egressnot stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • request-rate priced per instance-hour from launch to stop or terminate source
  • per-ip-shaping 100 GB a month of free data transfer out, aggregated across all AWS services source
not stated
Bindingper-ip-shaping
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Composes withnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence rungreported the on-demand pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. It establishes the billing unit and the 100 GB egress allowance
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[1].value limit:per-ip-shaping 100.0 GB / month
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/not published
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/'Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance, from the time an instance is launched until it is terminated or stopped' and 'AWS customers receive 100 GB of free data transfer out to the internet free each month', quoted; the Windows licence is a separate line
More fields (13)
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 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "no session cap; the licence bills with the instance hour"
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 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "per_session_bytes": "100 GB a month free egress"
 },
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 60,
  "rounding_s": null
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}
Unknown or withheld values (20)
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  • $.confidence_note partly-held
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.evidence[0].proved process
  • $.extras.keep_rate_basis process
  • $.extras.price_note process
  • $.free_tier.notes withheld
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note not-stated
  • $.notes withheld
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-stated
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Free Tier — S3 (current, post-2025 restructure) Storage

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aws.amazon.com/free/ · iaas · storage/aws-free-tier-s3 · JSON · compare

Free tierNo perpetual S3 storage allowance remains in the current published Free Tier. What exists now: up to $200 in credits ($100 at signup + up to $100 for activities), expiring 6 months after account creation, and the account itself 'closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out'. The old 5 GB/12-month S3 allowance is not listed on the current free-tier page or S3 pricing page's Free Tier section, which now describes only the credit model.
unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retention6-month account lifetime on the Free plan; credits expire at 6 months (12 if you upgrade to Paid); $200 of credits buys roughly 3-4 TB-months of S3 Standard at ~$0.023/GB-month — a one-shot, not a tier. (180 days)
EgressData transfer out from AWS Regions to the internet: first 100 GB/month free for all customers (announced 2021, still the standing allowance). CloudFront separately gives 1 TB/month free egress + 10M requests, no longer time-limited — but that is a CDN allowance bolted onto a paid origin.
free_allowance: 100 GB per month
Identitycard derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: in the current published Free Tier. What exists now: up to $200 in credits ($100 at signup + up to $100 for activities), expiring 6 months after account creation, and the account it
Limits
  • retention-clamped expire at 6 months source
6-month account lifetime on the Free plan; credits expire at 6 months (12 if you upgrade to Paid); $200 of credits buys roughly 3-4 TB-months of S3 Standard at ~$0.023/GB-month — a one-shot, not a tier.
Bindingretention-clamped a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them
Interfaces3-compatible, rclone, cli s3
ToolingS3 API, rclone 's3', aws-cli; CloudFront in front for the 1 TB egress allowance.
Composes withAWS explicitly aggregates usage across an AWS Organization, so claiming credits across several accounts fails (Free Tier Terms: 'You will not be eligible for any Offers if you or your entity create(s) more than one account'). A second account does not carry a second allowance.
ReliabilityThe most reliable infrastructure here, but the programme is now a time-boxed credit grant, not free storage. Anything still stored when the Free plan closes is at risk.
NotesNo perpetual S3 storage allowance remains in the current published Free Tier. What exists now: up to $200 in credits ($100 at signup + up to $100 for activities), expiring 6 months after account creation, and the account itself 'closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out'. The old 5 GB/12-month S3 allowance is not listed on the current free-tier page or S3 pricing page's Free Tier section, which now describes only the credit model.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.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'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/'Free Tier credits expire 6 months from the date you create your AWS account'; 'You cannot extend your Free plan beyond 6 months'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/free/terms/Organization-level aggregation and ineligibility when several accounts exist
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansi100 GB/month region egress + 1 TB/month CloudFront, no 12-month limit
More fields (1)
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  "why": "No perpetual S3 storage allowance remains in the current published Free Tier. What exists now: up to $200 in credits ($100 at signup + up to $100 for activities), expiring 6 months after account creation, and the account itself 'closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out'. The old 5 GB/12-month S3 allowance is not listed on the current free-tier page or S3 pricing page's Free Tier section, which now describes only the credit model.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (5)
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted

AWS Lightsail Compute

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aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/aws-lightsail · JSON · compare

Free tierThe 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
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identitycard not published
Limits
  • volume-quota 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
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
Bindingvolume-quota 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
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withUSD 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
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe first rung on the extracted ladder is USD 5 for 0.5 GB; no USD 3.50 rung appears, so a USD 3.50 figure from an older write-up would be stale, but I did not find a page that states a withdrawal date. Not in dossier/compute (searched: lightsail, no record). would-settle: whether the multi-month free trial Lightsail has run in past years still exists, which the pricing page does not mention in the extracted text.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:volume-quota 1.0 TB
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.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
2026-10-22aws.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
2026-10-22aws.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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  "free_tier_kind": "none",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": 2,
   "ram_gib": 0.5,
   "disk_gib": 20,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (10)
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.identity_cost.detail process
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Global Accelerator Egress and tunnels

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aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/pricing/ · L4 anycast proxy (TCP/UDP) · egress/aws-global-accelerator · JSON · compare

Free tierNo free tier is listed. For every full or partial hour when an accelerator runs in your account, you are charged $0.025 until it is deleted.
unit none; metered on unstated
PriceUSD 18 per month plus USD 0.015 per GB
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
EgressUnmetered in the sense that nothing is capped: USD 0.025 per accelerator-hour plus DT-Premium of USD 0.015/GB for the first 10 TB from United States and Canada or Europe. 1 TiB/month is 1,099.5 GB at USD 0.015, about USD 16.49, plus USD 18 of fixed fee.; ingress: tcp+udp
free_allowance: none published
Identitycard An AWS account with a payment method; there is no free-tier accelerator.
Limits
  • volume-quota no free allowance; USD 0.015/GB DT-Premium in United States and Canada and in Europe, higher in other regions source
  • request-rate USD 0.025 per accelerator-hour whether enabled or disabled source
Bindingnone No byte cap exists: cost is linear in GB. At 1 TiB/month the bill is about USD 34 and nothing throttles. The real ceiling is that the endpoint must be an AWS resource, so this is ingress to AWS rather than to a machine the client already runs elsewhere.
Interfacerest, cli accelerators, listeners, endpoint groups and endpoints, created through the console, CLI or API
ToolingAWS console, CLI or API; an NLB or EC2 instance as the endpoint
Composes withonly with an AWS origin, so it does not chain with a free VM from another cloud
ReliabilityTCP fragments are dropped at the edge because the AWS network does not support them; UDP fragments are forwarded
NotesThe cleanest documented UDP anycast and the only one with a published per-GB rate, but the endpoint list is AWS-only, so a free VM on Oracle or GCP cannot be the origin. Compared with Gcore (EUR 17/month flat) it is cheaper at low volume and has no rule model, but it buys reachability into AWS, which the VM already had.
Evidence rungdocumented Anycast, UDP fragment forwarding, the endpoint types and the two rates are quoted from pages read today. A measured claim would need an accelerator created and a UDP listener counted.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD0.015 GB / month
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-23docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/introductioThe static IP addresses are anycast from the AWS edge network. Global Accelerator forwards UDP fragments to the configured endpoint, which reassembles the original IP packet.
2026-10-23docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/about-endpoEndpoints for standard accelerators can be Network Load Balancers, Application Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 instances, or Elastic IP addresses
2026-10-23aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/pricing/We are charged $0.025 per accelerator-hour, and DT-Premium is $0.015/GB for the first 10 TB from United States & Canada and Europe
More fields (7)
{
 "wg_path": "inside-udp",
 "wg_detail": "Global Accelerator forwards UDP fragments to the configured endpoint, so a WireGuard listener on an EC2 instance behind it is reachable on the listener port.",
 "ingress": "tcp+udp",
 "volume_tib_month": null,
 "volume_stated": "Unmetered in the sense that nothing is capped: USD 0.025 per accelerator-hour plus DT-Premium of USD 0.015/GB for the first 10 TB from United States and Canada or Europe. 1 TiB/month is 1,099.5 GB at USD 0.015, about USD 16.49, plus USD 18 of fixed fee.",
 "bytes_transit": "yes",
 "transit_note": "traffic enters the AWS global network at the nearest edge and exits to the endpoint"
}
Unknown or withheld values (2)
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable

AWS Activate, Portfolio Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gateddisagrees

aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-ab · cloud VM · compute/aws-activate-portfolio · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

Free tierThe Activate Portfolio tier offers up to USD 200,000 in AWS Activate Credits for provider-backed startups. Eligibility includes: associated with an Activate Provider and have their Organizational ID, not previously received AWS Activate Credits of equal or greater value, Pre-Series B with the most recent funding round in the last 12 months, a fully functioning company website, and founded in the past 10 years.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identityinstitution Requires an Organizational ID issued by an Activate Provider, which is a VC, accelerator or startup organization. That is an investor relationship, not a document the client can produce alone.
Limits
  • write-gated The Activate Provider Org ID fails first: without a VC or accelerator that is a registered provider, no application can be submitted at all. source
The Activate Provider Org ID fails first: without a VC or accelerator that is a registered provider, no application can be submitted at all.
Bindingwrite-gated The Activate Provider Org ID fails first: without a VC or accelerator that is a registered provider, no application can be submitted at all.
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withUSD 200,000 of AWS spend would cover a serious training or serving run for a year, and the credits apply to Bedrock third-party models. The chain breaks at the Org ID: it is issued by an investor, so it composes only for a company that has already raised.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesAdditional credits above USD 200,000 are stated to exist for AI startups, routed through an AWS account manager, which is a sales conversation rather than a program. The lifetime cap is unnamed on the page.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/startups/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-abPortfolio tier offers up to USD 200,000 and requires an Activate Provider Organizational ID plus a funding round in the last 12 months, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/the page names Andreessen Horowitz, Brex, Carta, Greylock, Sequoia and Y Combinator as Activate Providers, which is the class of entity that issues the Org ID, quoted
More fields (1)
{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "startup-credit",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit",
  "shape": null
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (9)
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Cloud Credit Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-c · GPU cloud · compute/aws-cloud-credit · JSON · compare

Free tier'Student awards will be up to a maximum of $5,000.00. Faculty and Staff awards are not capped.' Awards are AWS Promotional Credit, and 'Amazon EC2 usage supported by AWS Promotional Credit will be for on-demand and spot instances only'. Review cycle 90 to 120 days.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identityinstitution an institution-issued email address on a .edu, .org or equivalent domain, plus an eligible role at an accredited research institution (full-time faculty, full-time research staff, or an enrolled graduate/post-graduate/PhD student). The FAQ states 'Applications from non-institution domains will not be accepted.' Review takes 90 to 120 days. No card, hold, debit or prepaid term is stated: the award is credit on an AWS account the applicant already holds.
Limits
  • write-gated the application needs an institution-issued .edu or .org address and a 90 to 120 day human review, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot submit at all. source
the application needs an institution-issued .edu or .org address and a 90 to 120 day human review, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot submit at all.
Bindingwrite-gated the application needs an institution-issued .edu or .org address and a 90 to 120 day human review, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot submit at all.
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withNone. The credit lands on an AWS account the applicant already holds, and the institution email is the gate that precedes the award, so no chain starts.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesA clean refutation and the most useful negative in this class, because USD 5,000 uncapped-for-staff is the kind of number a reader would otherwise chase. Two separate gates, either of which is fatal: the .edu/.org domain rule, stated as an absolute ('will not be accepted'), and the role list, which has no independent-researcher category. The program itself is alive and global outside greater China, so the verdict is fails-identity rather than dead.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-c'Student awards will be up to a maximum of $5,000.00. Faculty and Staff awards are not capped' and 'Amazon EC2 usage supported by AWS Promotional Credit will be for on-demand and spot instances only' and 'Typical review cycles are 90 to 120 days', quoted; page 200
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-c'We require applicants provide their official institution-issued email ID (.edu, .org, or equivalent) to expedite the verification and decision process. Applications from non-institution domains will not be accepted.' quoted; also 'The only exception is applications from the greater China region'
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-celigibility list is exactly three roles, all tied to 'an accredited research institution': full-time faculty, full-time research staff, graduate/post-graduate/PhD students enrolled there
More fields (1)
{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "research-credit",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (9)
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Activate Egress and tunnels

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/ · startup credit programme · egress/aws-activate · JSON · compare

Free tierEligible startups can apply for packages ranging from $1,000 to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits to access 200+ services, including AI tools, infrastructure, and data services.
unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes
PriceUSD 1,000 to 200,000 of credit
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egress$1,000 at $0.09 per GB is 10.1 TiB and $200,000 is 2,022 TiB, on the same 100 GB a month free egress line; ingress: udp
free_allowance: none published
Identityinstitution Eligible startups ... Here's what you need to know to apply for Activate Credits ... Choose your credit tier. The page addresses 'early-stage companies' and founders, so an individual with no company is not the applicant.
Limits
  • write-gated an application reviewed by AWS, with tiers set by funding stage and programme membership source
  • volume-quota $1,000 to $200,000 of credit spent at $0.09 per GB is 10.1 to 2,022 TiB source
Bindingwrite-gated no byte moves until an application is approved, and the applicant is a startup rather than a person. The credit size is not the constraint at 1 TiB a month: the smallest package, $1,000, is 10.1 TiB, which is ten months of it.
Interfacecli, rest the same AWS CLI and EC2 API as any AWS account
Toolingwg-quick on the EC2 instance the credits pay for
Composes withif granted, the only route whose limit is not the dollar figure: 10 TiB or more against a 20 TB tunnel
Reliabilitycredits carry an expiry set at award and are not convertible to cash
NotesArithmetic: $1,000 over $0.09 a GB is 11,111 GB = 11.1 TB = 10.1 TiB; $200,000 is 2,222,222 GB = 2,022 TiB. Any tier above the minimum clears 1 TiB a month for a year by a wide margin, so the arithmetic is not the question and eligibility is. Candidates considered: AWS Educate, which the same account family offers with no card and with no credits, recorded separately. Left open: whether a sole founder with no funding and no accelerator can clear the application, which the page does not answer.
Evidence rungdocumented the page states the range and that the applicant must be an eligible startup; the tier an individual could reach is not stated on this page, so the practical offer for a person is unknown rather than zero
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[1].value limit:volume-quota 2022.0 TiB
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD1000.0 TB / month
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-23aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/'Eligible startups can apply for packages ranging from $1,000 to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits' and 'Apply for up to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits'
2026-10-23b0.p.awsstatic.com/pricing/2.0/meteredUnitMaps/datatransfer/us-east-1 external outbound 0.09 per GB, the rate any Activate credit is spent against
More fields (7)
{
 "wg_path": "native-conf",
 "wg_detail": "credits spend against the same EC2 and data transfer line as the Free Tier, so wg-quick on an EC2 instance is the path",
 "ingress": "udp",
 "volume_tib_month": null,
 "volume_stated": "$1,000 at $0.09 per GB is 10.1 TiB and $200,000 is 2,022 TiB, on the same 100 GB a month free egress line",
 "bytes_transit": "yes",
 "transit_note": "credits offset Amazon's metered data transfer out, so the bytes still cross Amazon's network"
}
Unknown or withheld values (2)
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable

AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program (revisit) - uncapped, 2 years, but the signatory must be an organisation Storage

fails: identityinstitutionno cardRdisagrees

aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/ · iaas · storage/aws-open-data-sponsorship-program-uncapped-2-years-but-t · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

Free tierNo published byte limit; AWS pays S3 storage plus egress and cross-region fees for the approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billing organisation. 2-year term from the Effective Date, auto-terminates, extendable only if AWS offers. Rolling review, decision generally within two weeks.
unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retention90-day wind-down with data retrieval after termination. (90 days)
EgressFully covered, including cross-region data fees - the only candidate in this slot with genuinely uncapped free egress at any volume.
Identityinstitution institution
Limits
  • write-gated approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billing organisation source
  • write-gated review, decision generally within two weeks source
Requirements: permissive licence only (CC BY-NC and BY-ND barred), cloud-optimised formats, docs, a tutorial notebook, a Registry YAML PR, demonstrated community demand, and the account must run no other AWS services. 90-day wind-down with data retrieval after termination.
Bindingnone the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds
Interfaces3, rclone, cli s3
ToolingPlain S3: aws-cli, boto3, s3fs, rclone 's3'; CloudFormation template from the onboarding handbook creates the public-read bucket with intelligent tiering and logging.
Composes withPer dataset, per dedicated account; the application form itself asks only for 'Name of your institution', dataset size and growth rate in GB/year - there is no upper bound field. Multiply by separate applications for separate datasets.
ReliabilityProduction S3, no reliability concerns. Failure mode is review + the 2-year clock: a dataset that stops growing does not get renewed and the bill reverts to you.
NotesNo published byte limit; AWS pays S3 storage plus egress and cross-region fees for the approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billing organisation. 2-year term from the Effective Date, auto-terminates, extendable only if AWS offers. Rolling review, decision generally within two weeks.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/opendata/faqs/not published
2026-10-21application.opendata.aws/the live form's fields: 'Name of your institution', 'Website of your institution', 'Size of dataset e.g. 100GB', 'Growth rate of dataset in GB per year'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/terms/'The term of your Program participation will be 2 years from the Effective Date, at which point it will automatically terminate'; wind-down 'no fewer than 90 days'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/opendata/faqs/'The sponsored account must be used exclusively for storing and distributing the approved Open Data dataset'
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "write-gated",
  "why": "No published byte limit; AWS pays S3 storage plus egress and cross-region fees for the approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billing organisation. 2-year term from the Effective Date, auto-terminates, extendable only if AWS offers. Rolling review, decision generally within two weeks.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (6)
  • $.evidence[0].proved withheld
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted

AWS Free Tier (EC2) Egress and tunnels

fails: egresscard?cardDvolume-quotadisagrees

aws.amazon.com/free/ · origin VM (free plan) · egress/amazon-web-services-free-tier · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

Free tierWhen 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
PriceUSD 0 on the Free plan for 6 months; the 100 GB a month egress allowance is free on every account
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
EgressAWS 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).
Identitycard (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
Limits
  • volume-quota 100 GB of data transfer out to the internet each month, aggregated across services and regions source
  • retention-clamped the Free plan account closes 6 months after creation or when credits run out source
Bindingvolume-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
Interfacessh SSH to the instance's public IPv4 or IPv6 address, with a security group rule for any further port
Toolingwg-quick, nothing vendor-specific
Composes with100 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
Reliabilitythe 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
NotesThe 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.
Evidence rungdocumented 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
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:volume-quota 100.0 GB
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD0.0 TB / month
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-23aws.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).'
2026-10-23aws.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.'
2026-10-23aws.amazon.com/ec2/'The free plan is available for 6 months after account creation' and no 750-hour figure on the EC2 product page
2026-10-23docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/security-group-rulea 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 or withheld values (3)
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable

AWS Educate Egress and tunnels

fails: egressemailno cardDwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/ · education lab programme · egress/aws-educate · JSON · compare

Free tierLearners as young as 13 can register for AWS Educate with just an email address, gaining access to free hands-on labs to learn and practice cloud skills in real-time.
unit none; metered on none
PriceUSD 0, no credit
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressno credit and no transfer allowance is stated on the page; the offer is lab access; ingress: none
free_allowance: no credit and no transfer allowance is stated on the page; the offer is lab access
Identityemail No credit card needed. Learners as young as 13 can register for AWS Educate with just an email address.
Limits
  • write-gated access is to curated lab sessions rather than to an account the client controls source
Bindingwrite-gated there is no volume to run out of: the client never gets an instance or a public address, so 1 TiB a month is not reachable at any price through this programme.
Interfaceunknown a browser lab console
Toolingnothing to run: no instance is issued
Composes withno chain; it is a training programme rather than a source of capacity
Reliabilitylab sessions are time-boxed and reset, so nothing installed survives
NotesThe only programme with no card and no institution, and it buys no capacity: the page describes training and labs, names no credit and no instance. Read as an absence rather than a number, which is why it is recorded at all: a reader who sees 'no credit card needed' will otherwise spend the session finding out. Candidates considered: the AWS Free Tier, which is the account route and needs a card, recorded separately.
Evidence rungdocumented the page's absence of a credit line is what is being reported
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD0.0 TB / month
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-23aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/'Learners as young as 13 can register for AWS Educate with just an email address, gaining access to free hands-on labs', 'No credit card needed', and 'AWS Educate offers an extensive library of free, self-paced online training'
More fields (7)
{
 "wg_path": "none",
 "wg_detail": "the programme grants lab sessions rather than an account with a public IPv4, so there is no endpoint for wg-quick to bind",
 "ingress": "none",
 "volume_tib_month": 0.0,
 "volume_stated": "no credit and no transfer allowance is stated on the page; the offer is lab access",
 "bytes_transit": "no",
 "transit_note": "the bytes stay inside AWS's lab environment and never reach a client-controlled endpoint"
}
Unknown or withheld values (3)
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable

Amazon DynamoDB Storage

fails: egresscard?cardR

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ · iaas · storage/amazon-dynamodb · JSON · compare

Free tier25 GB of storage, always free (does not expire), plus 25 WCU and 25 RCU provisioned capacity and ~200M requests/month
unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
EgressMetered — AWS gives 100 GB/month of data transfer out free, aggregated across all AWS services. 100 GB/month = ~3.3 GB/day vs 500 GB/day: 150x short. Beyond that, standard internet DTO rates.
free_allowance: 100 GB per month
Identitycard (placeholder) inferred from the category 'iaas'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfacerest, cli rest
ToolingAWS SDKs (boto3 etc.), aws dynamodb CLI, PartiQL; native Binary attribute type (raw bytes, base64 on the wire only); DynamoDB Streams + Lambda for processing
Composes with25 GB per account per region, and the docs confirm 'the first 25 GB of storage are included in the AWS Free Tier in each AWS Region' — so N regions x 25 GB. 20 regions = 500 GB in principle, all under one account. This is the single largest structured-store byte allowance found. But the 25 RCU cap is region-global per table, so serving is throttled regardless.
ReliabilityThe most durable and operationally boring store in the dossier — no expiry, no pause, no deletion. The catch is throughput: 25 RCU is 25 strongly-consistent 4 KB reads/sec, which is a hard ceiling no amount of sharding within the free tier escapes.
Notes25 GB of storage, always free (does not expire), plus 25 WCU and 25 RCU provisioned capacity and ~200M requests/month
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (6)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/how-aws-pricing-works'Always Free ... Amazon DynamoDB: Up to 200 million requests per month (25 write capacity units (WCUs) and 25 read capacity units (RCUs)); 25 GB of storage.'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/'the first 25 GB of storage are included in the AWS Free Tier'; 'The first 25 GB of storage are included in the AWS Free Tier in each AWS Region'; 'The AWS Free Tier includes 25 WCUs and 25 RCUs'
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Con'The maximum item size in DynamoDB is 400 KB, which includes both attribute name binary length (UTF-8 length) and attribute value lengths'
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Cap'A binary value must be encoded in base64 format before it can be sent to DynamoDB, but the value's raw byte length is used for calculating size'; 'All items in DynamoDB require 100 bytes of storage overhead per item'
2026-10-21aws.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'
2026-10-21withheldarithmetic: 25 RCU x 4 KB = 100 KB/s = 8.64 GB/day of reads — 58x short of 500 GB/day, and this is the BEST op-to-byte ratio among the metered-capacity stores
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "25 GB of storage, always free (does not expire), plus 25 WCU and 25 RCU provisioned capacity and ~200M requests/month",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (8)
  • $.evidence[5].url private-url
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted

Amazon EC2 Spot Compute

fails: quotacardcardDvolume-quota

aws.amazon.com/free/ · GPU cloud · compute/amazon-ec2-spot · JSON · compare

Free tierThe AWS Free Tier is now a plan with an instance-type allowlist. New accounts from 15 July 2025 get 'USD 100 in credits immediately' plus 'up to USD 100 more', valid 6 months, and on the Free plan the account 'closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out'. Reporting of the console restriction is consistent: 'This instance type is not eligible under the Free Plan. Upgrade your account plan to access this instance type', and the eligible list is T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large and M7i-flex.large. No GPU family is on it.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identitycard not published
Limits
  • volume-quota GPU Spot quota defaults to 0 vCPU and the Free plan blocks the request, so the two gates must both be opened, and opening either one requires an upgraded paid plan. source
GPU Spot quota defaults to 0 vCPU and the Free plan blocks the request, so the two gates must both be opened, and opening either one requires an upgraded paid plan.
Bindingvolume-quota GPU Spot quota defaults to 0 vCPU and the Free plan blocks the request, so the two gates must both be opened, and opening either one requires an upgraded paid plan.
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withThe USD 100 to 200 credit is real money, but it buys CPU Spot at standard prices rather than GPU time, so it does not multiply a training run.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesTwo separate walls, and the credit is behind both: the plan allowlist blocks the instance type, and the Spot quota blocks the family. A user who upgrades to the paid plan keeps the remaining credit for 12 months, so the credit is not lost by upgrading, which makes upgrading the cheapest way to convert the trial into GPU time. qualifies-with-caveat via a05-spot; qualifies-with-caveat via a05-spot; qualifies-with-caveat via a05-spot; qualifies-with-caveat via a05-spot. The one recorded is the better-evidenced. Verdict corrected 2026-10-22: the gate is a service quota, not an identity check. Spot is a paid product and the rates in this record are purchasable; what blocks a new account is a GPU Spot vCPU quota that defaults to zero, which needs a quota-increase request. fails-quota names that; fails-identity named a gate that is reachable.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (12)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/free/new Free Tier accounts get 'USD 100 in credits immediately' and 'up to USD 100 more', for 6 months, and the account closes 6 months after opening, quoted
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limitAll G and VT Spot Instance Requests default to 0 vCPU, so GPU Spot is closed before the credit is spent
2026-10-22www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1m8t9rb/why_is_t2micro_not_frea user quotes the console refusal 'This instance type is not eligible under the Free Plan. Upgrade your account plan to access this instance type', and the eligible list is T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large and M7i-flex.large
2026-10-22website.spot.ec2.aws.a2z.com/spot.jsprobe.py record shows status 200, 7625200 bytes, sha256 3624b033d08f7c2ff9460d6c389713ba640178ed452fa9e4881089a629d3dfeb, header last-modified Mon, 13 May 2024, and the parsed config contains no g6e, p5e or g7e size
2026-10-22www.devzero.io/instances/aws/g6.xlargea live tracker reports g6.xlarge spot in us-east-1 at USD 0.476 and in us-east-2 at USD 0.411, against the feed's 0.1050
2026-10-22www.doit.com/compute/spot/us-east-2/g6.xlargethe page states 'The lowest spot price for AWS EC2 g6.xlarge in us-east-2 is $0.2238 per hour', a third value that also contradicts the feed
2026-10-22www.devzero.io/instances/aws/g6.xlargea per-region table for g6.xlarge gives spot USD 0.476 in us-east-1, 0.411 in us-east-2, 0.408 in us-west-2, 0.176 in eu-north-1, 0.136 in ap-south-2 and 0.566 in ap-northeast-1, against on-demand USD 0.805 in us-east-1
2026-10-22www.doit.com/compute/spot/us-east-2/g6.xlargean independent tracker states 'The lowest spot price for AWS EC2 g6.xlarge in us-east-2 is $0.2238 per hour', which disagrees with the other tracker's 0.411 for the same region, so even a single region has no agreed spot number
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limitthe Spot quota table lists All G and VT Spot Instance Requests at a default of 0 and All Standard at 5, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/instance-advisor/AWS states Spot Instances save 'up to 90% compared to On-Demand pricing' and that the average interruption frequency across all Regions and instance types has historically been '<5%', quoted
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-instance-tethe interruption notice is issued two minutes before stop or terminate, delivered via EventBridge and IMDSv2 spot/instance-action, and is best effort, quoted
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/instance-advisor/the page states 'save up to 90% compared to On-Demand pricing' and 'the average frequency of interruption across all Regions and instance types has historically been <5%', but the per-pool table did not appear in the extracted text, so the read is marked low confidence
More fields (1)
{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "spot-arbitrage",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
  "shape": null,
  "verdict_change": "fails-identity -> fails-quota on 2026-10-22 (verdict scope)"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (10)
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.identity_cost.detail process
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Academy Compute

fails: quotainstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/ · dev environment · compute/aws-academy · JSON · compare

Free tierQuoted: 'AWS Academy provides higher education institutions with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum'. What students actually receive is listed under Students: 'Complimentary access to AWS Skill Builder subscription for 12 months' and 'Exclusive access to the Emerging Talent Community upon course completion'. Educators get '100% discounts on AWS Certification exams' and a Skill Builder subscription. No compute allowance is stated for either group on this page.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; perpetual
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
Egressnot stated
Identityinstitution not published
Limits
  • write-gated An institution must join the programme and an enrolled educator must run the course before a student sees anything, and what the student then sees is course material and a Skill Builder subscription rather than compute. source
An institution must join the programme and an enrolled educator must run the course before a student sees anything, and what the student then sees is course material and a Skill Builder subscription rather than compute.
Bindingwrite-gated An institution must join the programme and an enrolled educator must run the course before a student sees anything, and what the student then sees is course material and a Skill Builder subscription rather than compute.
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withComposes with nothing for a user: it is the AWS programme with the largest institutional footprint and the smallest student allowance, and it is often confused with AWS Educate in student-offer lists.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesRecorded as a refutation of a name that appears on almost every student-offer list beside AWS Educate. The two AWS programmes are different in kind: AWS Educate is open to any individual with an email but its labs are simulated, and AWS Academy needs an institution and an educator but its students still receive no compute. Neither is a compute source for a user. What would overturn this is a lab or credit line on the AWS Academy student page that the read did not surface; the page was read in full at 1741 words and states none.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/'AWS Academy provides higher education institutions with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum'; the student benefits are a 12-month Skill Builder subscription and Emerging Talent Community access; the page states no compute or credit allowance.
More fields (1)
{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "student-pack",
  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual",
  "shape": null
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (10)
  • $.egress.metered egress-unknown
  • $.egress.terms not-stated
  • $.identity_cost.detail process
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Educate Compute

fails: quotaemailno cardD

aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/ · dev environment · compute/aws-educate · JSON · compare

Free tierQuoted: 'AWS Educate is open to any individual, regardless of where they are in their education, technical experience, or career journey', and 'No credit card needed. Learners as young as 13 can register for AWS Educate with just an email address'. The named labs cover EC2, S3, RDS, VPC and Cloud Operations. The FAQ then defines what a lab is: 'These labs provide a simulated environment where users can interact with AWS services, experiment with different configurations, and apply theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems.'
unit none; metered on wall-clock; recurring-credit
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
EgressNothing binds because nothing is provisioned: the EC2 and S3 exercises run in a simulated console, so there is no quota to exhaust, no egress to meter and no wall clock that ends with a resource to lose.
Identityemail email only: the vendor page states "No credit card needed. Learners as young as 13 can register for AWS Educate with just an email address" and the learner FAQ states "There is no need to provide credit card information"; the registration form asks for first and last name, country, city, birth month and year and an email address, with no enrollment document anywhere on it. No card, no hold, and debit or prepaid do not arise because no payment method is taken
Bindingnone Nothing binds because nothing is provisioned: the EC2 and S3 exercises run in a simulated console, so there is no quota to exhaust, no egress to meter and no wall clock that ends with a resource to lose.
Interfaces3-compatible inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withThe one program in this class whose identity gate for a user passes outright; it is the only door that stays open without enrollment documents, but what it opens is a lab, not an account.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesRefutation. AWS Educate is the one program in this class whose identity gate for a user passes outright, an email address and nothing else, which makes it the most attractive name on every student-list article; the vendor FAQ says the EC2, S3 and RDS labs are a simulated environment rather than an AWS account, so the practical compute is zero. the FAQ corrected it. The FAQ does not state a lab session length or any per-lab allowance, and there is nothing to measure because no real resource is provisioned. Separately, the Job Board retires on 9 December 2026 and the Emerging Talent Community moves to AWS Builder Center, so the non-lab part of the program is also contracting.
Evidence rungdocumented
Checked2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/'No credit card needed. Learners as young as 13 can register for AWS Educate with just an email address', and 'AWS Educate is open to any individual, regardless of where they are in their education, technical experience, or career journey'.
2026-10-22www.awseducate.com/registration/s/learner-faqs?language=en_U'These labs provide a simulated environment where users can interact with AWS services, experiment with different configurations'; 'All our courses are absolutely free, including access to labs'; 'There is no need to provide credit card information'.
2026-10-22www.awseducate.com/registration/s/registration-detail?languaRegistration requires first and last name, country, city, birth month and year, and an email address; the only program question is which AWS program the learner is associated with, and 'AWS Educate' is one of three options. No enrollment document is requested anywhere on the form.
More fields (1)
{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "student-pack",
  "free_tier_kind": "recurring-credit",
  "shape": null
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (6)
  • $.per_object_cap.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.reliability_note none-observed
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS Free Tier Egress and tunnels

fails: quotacardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees

aws.amazon.com/free/ · trial credit (provider VM) · egress/aws-free-tier · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

Free tierWhen 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
PriceUSD 100 to 200 of credit
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
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
Identitycard 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'
Limits
  • 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 source
  • retention-clamped the account closes 6 months after it opens or when the credits run out, whichever comes first source
Bindingvolume-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.
Interfacecli, rest AWS CLI and the EC2 API
Toolingwg-quick on the instance; AWS CLI for the security group and Elastic IP
Composes withone EC2 instance for up to 6 months on the credit, with the 100 GB a month free egress as the only recurring free volume
Reliabilitythe account and every resource in it are closed at 6 months without conversion to a paid plan
NotesArithmetic: $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.
Evidence rungdocumented 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
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:volume-quota 2.02 TiB
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD100.0 TB / month
Evidence (3)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-23aws.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'
2026-10-23aws.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)'
2026-10-23b0.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)
{
 "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 or withheld values (2)
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable

Amazon CloudFront free tier (as the egress layer for any origin) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-ip-shaping

aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ · paas · storage/amazon-cloudfront-free-tier · JSON · compare

Free tier1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'.
unit TB; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
EgressThis IS the egress allowance: 1 TB/month free to the internet from 300+ PoPs, worldwide except China PoPs.
free_allowance: 1 TB per month
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Limits
  • per-ip-shaping 500 GB/day source
1 TB/month is 1/15th of a 500 GB/day workload (≈15 TB/month). Beyond that it is metered at standard CloudFront rates. Origin fetch traffic still hits the origin's own egress meter (so pairing it with Oracle means Oracle's 10 TB absorbs the cache misses).
Bindingper-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Interfaces3, rest, oci, cli rest
ToolingCloudFront distributions in front of any HTTP origin (S3, an OCI VM, a block-volume nginx); terraform/CLI; signed URLs and signed cookies for access control.
Composes with1 TB/month free egress per AWS account. Because it is a pull-through cache in front of an arbitrary origin, it can front a NON-AWS origin — so in principle it can serve the 150 GB Oracle block volume or any other free tier, absorbing 1 TB/month of the client's ~500 GB/day serving load. It stacks with Oracle's own 10 TB/month.
ReliabilityMature CDN, no ban risk; the only issue is that 1 TB/month is a ceiling, not a service level.
Notes1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:per-ip-shaping 500.0 GB / day
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansi'Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month ... and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (8)
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted

amazon kdp (kindle direct publishing) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200735140 · rejected-provider · storage/amazon-kdp · JSON · compare

Free tier650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap; large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
Reliability650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap; large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.
Notes650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap; large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200735140650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.
2026-10-21kdp.amazon.com/help/topic/G202145060cited as the basis of the rejection: 650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap; large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "650 MB conversion cap and 8,000-page cap; large files are actively discouraged and conversion fails above the limit.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (15)
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  • $.confidence_note withheld
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  • $.limits_note process
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  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

amazon photos Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

www.amazon.com/b?node=13234696011 · rejected-provider · storage/amazon-photos · JSON · compare

Free tierUnlimited full-resolution photos only for Prime members — Prime is paid, so this is not a free tier. Free accounts get 5 GB; video is capped at 5 GB even on Prime. No public upload API.
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
ReliabilityUnlimited full-resolution photos only for Prime members — Prime is paid, so this is not a free tier. Free accounts get 5 GB; video is capped at 5 GB even on Prime. No public upload API.
NotesUnlimited full-resolution photos only for Prime members — Prime is paid, so this is not a free tier. Free accounts get 5 GB; video is capped at 5 GB even on Prime. No public upload API.
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21www.amazon.com/b?node=13234696011Unlimited full-resolution photos only for Prime members — Prime is paid, so this is not a free tier. Free accounts get 5 GB; video is capped at 5 GB even on Prime. No public upload API.
More fields (1)
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 "dead_end": {
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  "why": "Unlimited full-resolution photos only for Prime members — Prime is paid, so this is not a free tier. Free accounts get 5 GB; video is capped at 5 GB even on Prime. No public upload API.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
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  • $.confidence_note withheld
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  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
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  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
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  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

amazon sns Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/ · rejected-provider · storage/amazon-sns · JSON · compare

Free tierPub/sub only — zero storage. 1M publishes/month free, but messages are pushed and discarded; there is nothing to read back later.
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
ReliabilityPub/sub only — zero storage. 1M publishes/month free, but messages are pushed and discarded; there is nothing to read back later.
NotesPub/sub only — zero storage. 1M publishes/month free, but messages are pushed and discarded; there is nothing to read back later.
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/Pub/sub only — zero storage. 1M publishes/month free, but messages are pushed and discarded; there is nothing to read back later.
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Pub/sub only — zero storage. 1M publishes/month free, but messages are pushed and discarded; there is nothing to read back later.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
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  • $.confidence_note withheld
  • $.egress.terms not-recorded
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
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  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

AWS Bedrock — custom model import Storage

fails: quotacardcardR

docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-customiza · hyperscaler-model-catalog · storage/aws-bedrock-custom-model-import · JSON · compare

Free tierHard per-object cap: 'The size of the imported model weights must be less than 100GB for multimodal models and 200GB for text models.' No free storage at all — the source must already live in your own S3 bucket, which you pay for.
unit none; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
EgressPaid S3 egress from your own bucket. Bedrock's catalog is a deployment target, not a host.
Identitycard card
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaces3, rest rest
ToolingA real API for model import jobs, then InvokeModel. The import job reads from an S3 URI you supply.
Composes withNone for storage — this is a consumer of S3 capacity, not a provider of it. Chaining it for a user's problem would require owning the S3 bucket first, which is the thing he cannot afford.
ReliabilityNot a storage provider. Included because the brief named it; the answer is that the 'model catalog' is a deployment registry over storage you already pay for.
NotesHard per-object cap: 'The size of the imported model weights must be less than 100GB for multimodal models and 200GB for text models.' No free storage at all — the source must already live in your own S3 bucket, which you pay for.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-customizaopened: 'The size of the imported model weights must be less than 100GB for multimodal models and 200GB for text models'; 'you specify the Amazon S3 URI for the source of the model files'; 'Amazon Bedrock supports transformer version 4.51.3'; 'Custom Model Import does not support embedding models.'
More fields (1)
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  "why": "Hard per-object cap: 'The size of the imported model weights must be less than 100GB for multimodal models and 200GB for text models.' No free storage at all — the source must already live in your own S3 bucket, which you pay for.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (6)
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted

AWS Cloud Credit for Research Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gated

aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-c · iaas · storage/aws-cloud-credit-for-research · JSON · compare

Free tierStudents capped at $5,000; 'Faculty and Staff awards are not capped'. Credit-denominated against S3 list price.
unit mixed; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
EgressMetered at standard S3 rates; credit covers it. No Open-Data-style free distribution.
Identityinstitution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: Students capped at $5,000; 'Faculty and Staff awards are not capped'. Credit-denominated against S3 list price. Very slow (a quarter-year) and one-shot;
Limits
  • write-gated Review 90-120 days, no expedite source
Eligibility is strictly institutional: 'Full-time faculty at an accredited research institution', 'Full-time research staff', or enrolled graduate/PhD students. No unaffiliated individuals. Review 90-120 days, no expedite. Credit valid for one year or until exhausted.
Bindingwrite-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
Interfaces3-compatible, rclone, cli s3
ToolingS3 API, rclone 's3', AWS CLI.
Composes withUncapped faculty awards are the only line here that could plausibly cover tens of TB - but the credit is one-year, so it is a runway, not a home. Pair with AWS Open Data if the data can be made public.
ReliabilityVery slow (a quarter-year) and one-shot; nothing recurring.
NotesStudents capped at $5,000; 'Faculty and Staff awards are not capped'. Credit-denominated against S3 list price.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-c'Full-time faculty at an accredited research institution'; 'Student awards will be up to a maximum of $5,000.00. Faculty and Staff awards are not capped.'
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/government-education/research-and-technical-c'Typical review cycles are 90 to 120 days'; credit 'good for the entirety of the one [year] or until the credit has been fully utilized'
More fields (1)
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 "dead_end": {
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  "why": "Students capped at $5,000; 'Faculty and Staff awards are not capped'. Credit-denominated against S3 list price.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (6)
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted

AWS CodeArtifact Storage

fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap

aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/pricing/ · registry · storage/aws-codeartifact · JSON · compare

Free tierFirst 2 GB of storage and first 100,000 requests per month free — a recurring monthly allowance, described on the pricing page as 'a monthly AWS Free Tier for storage and requests', with no 12-month expiry language attached to CodeArtifact itself. Then $0.05/GB-month storage and $0.05 per 10,000 requests.
unit objects; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object cap5 GB max per asset (5000000000 bytes)
Retentionnot stated
EgressMETERED and this is the killer: 'You pay for all bandwidth into and out of CodeArtifact, except ... Data transferred in from the Internet ... Data transfer between CodeArtifact and another AWS Service in the same AWS Region.' Internet egress is billed at the standard AWS data-transfer-out tiers, aggregated across all AWS services. No Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance path.
Identitycard derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: month expiry language attached to CodeArtifact itself. Then $0.05/GB-month storage and $0.05 per 10,000 requests. Technically excellent but structurally wrong for this brief: no p
Limits
  • request-rate 100,000 requests per month source
  • request-rate 100,000 requests/month source
  • per-ip-shaping 500 GB/day source
  • per-object-cap 5 GB max per asset source
2 GB/month free; 100,000 requests/month free; 5 GB max per asset (raisable by quota request); 350 assets per package version; npm publish request capped at 2 GB and NOT raisable; requests are also metered — a 500 GB/day fetch would blow 100k requests instantly; repos are private-only ('CodeArtifact does not publish packages ... to public repositories'), so anonymous pulls do not exist.
Bindingper-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interfacerest rest (CodeArtifact API), plus native npm/pip/twine/maven/gradle/nuget/cargo/swift clients through a repository endpoint and a short-lived auth token
Toolingaws codeartifact login --tool npm|pip|twine|nuget|maven, twine upload --repository-url, npm publish; first-class documented tooling.
Composes withPer AWS account: 2 GB free × unlimited AWS accounts. Within one account, storage is a single pooled meter (no per-repo allowance), so 1,000 repositories do not multiply 2 GB. Per-repo limits are on count (1,000 repos/domain, 10 domains/account) not bytes.
ReliabilityTechnically excellent but structurally wrong for this brief: no public/anonymous access at all, and both storage and egress are metered past trivial limits.
NotesFirst 2 GB of storage and first 100,000 requests per month free — a recurring monthly allowance, described on the pricing page as 'a monthly AWS Free Tier for storage and requests', with no 12-month expiry language attached to CodeArtifact itself. Then $0.05/GB-month storage and $0.05 per 10,000 requests.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented. Re-read 2026-10-22: the page answers and the claim holds; the rung is unchanged because the read establishes the page, not the enforcement.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers
  • $.limits[0].value limit:request-rate 100000.0 requests / month
  • $.limits[1].value limit:request-rate 100000.0 requests / month
  • $.limits[2].value limit:per-ip-shaping 500.0 GB / day
  • $.limits[3].value limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GB
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/pricing/read live: 'CodeArtifact includes a monthly AWS Free Tier for storage and requests'; 'You pay for all bandwidth into and out of CodeArtifact, except ... Data transferred in from the Internet'; outbound tiers 'Up to 1 GB/month / Next 9.999 TB/month / Next 40 TB/month'
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/latest/ug/service-limits.htread live: 'Asset file size: Each supported Region: 5 Gigabytes' (adjustable); 'Assets per package version: 350'
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/latest/ug/packages-overviewread live: 'the maximum size of a publishing request for npm packages is 2 GB ... cannot be raised'; 'CodeArtifact does not publish packages stored in CodeArtifact repositories to public repositories'
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/latest/ug/service-limits.htre-read 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200, 5,980 B): quota table reads 'Asset file size | Each supported Region: 5 Gigabytes | Adjustable: Yes' and 'Assets per package version | 350 | No'
More fields (3)
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  "retry_when": null,
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 },
 "superseded_evidence": [
  {
   "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240324020353/https://aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/pricing/",
   "date": "2024-03-24",
   "proved": "via read — captured 2024-03-24: 'you get the first 2GB of storage and first 100,000 requests of CodeArtifact usage for free every month'"
  }
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 "superseded_evidence_note": "Rows that are older than the topic's 180-day evidence window. They are kept as the historically read statement and are not evidence for the current claim; the current claim rests on the 2026-10-22 re-read in evidence[]. Nothing was deleted."
}
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  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
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  • $.retention.stated not-extracted

aws ecr private free tier (500 mb / 12 months) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/ · rejected-provider · storage/aws-ecr-private-free-tier · JSON · compare

Free tierTrial, not free tier, and tiny: 'As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories for one year as part of the AWS Free Tier.' Private repos als
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
ReliabilityTrial, not free tier, and tiny: 'As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories for one year as part of the AWS Free Tier.' Private repos als
NotesTrial, not free tier, and tiny: 'As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories for one year as part of the AWS Free Tier.' Private repos als
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/Trial, not free tier, and tiny: 'As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories for one year as part of the AWS Free Tier.' Private repos als
More fields (1)
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  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
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  • $.confidence_note withheld
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  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

AWS Lambda layers (and function deployment packages) Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardR

aws.amazon.com/lambda/ · iaas · storage/aws-lambda-layers · JSON · compare

Free tierPer-function/per-layer caps only, plus a regional aggregate. Verbatim: 'Deployment package (.zip file archive) size | 50 MB (zipped, when uploaded through the Lambda API or SDKs) ... 50 MB (when uploaded through the Lambda console) ... 250 MB The maximum size of the contents of a deployment package, including layers and custom runtimes. (unzipped)'. 'Function layers | 5 layers'. The one aggregate number is code storage: 'Storage for uploaded functions (.zip file archives) and layers using Lambda-managed storage ... 300 GB (unzipped) | Not increasable.'
unit MB; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionuntil the instance is recycled; not persistent
EgressNot free and not public. Layer download is a signed S3 URL obtainable only via an authenticated GetLayerVersion call; there is no anonymous URL surface at all. Lambda invocations also bill per request and GB-second.
Identityinstitution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ve) size | 50 MB (zipped, when uploaded through the Lambda API or SDKs) ... 50 MB (when uploaded through the Lambda console) ... 250 MB The maximum size of the contents of a deployme
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfacerest, rclone, cli rest
ToolingAWS CLI publish-layer-version / get-layer-version; SDKs. Immutability is structural: a layer version is immutable once published, so every write is a new version. No rclone backend.
Composes with300 GB unzipped per region across functions + layers, non-increasable, is the only aggregate — so the whole region is a 300 GB bucket with a private API in front. 250 MB per layer, 5 layers per function, 50 MB per uploaded zip means the 250 MB ceiling can only be reached via S3-referenced uploads. 300 GB is below the 500 GB filter and the fetchability is zero.
ReliabilityVery durable while the function exists; deleting a function version or layer version removes the code. No silent expiry, but no public read path either — the 300 GB is real and effectively unreachable without building your own proxy.
NotesPer-function/per-layer caps only, plus a regional aggregate. Verbatim: 'Deployment package (.zip file archive) size | 50 MB (zipped, when uploaded through the Lambda API or SDKs) ... 50 MB (when uploaded through the Lambda console) ... 250 MB The maximum size of the contents of a deployment package, including layers and custom runtimes. (unzipped)'. 'Function layers | 5 layers'. The one aggregate number is code storage: 'Storage for uploaded functions (.zip file archives) and layers using Lambda-managed storage ... 300 GB (unzipped) | Not increasable.'
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-limits.h'50 MB (zipped, when uploaded through the Lambda API or SDKs)'; '250 MB The maximum size of the contents of a deployment package, including layers and custom runtimes. (unzipped)'; 'Function layers | 5 layers'; '300 GB (unzipped) | Not increasable'
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-limits.h'/tmp directory storage | Between 512 MB and 10,240 MB, in 1-MB increments'
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Per-function/per-layer caps only, plus a regional aggregate. Verbatim: 'Deployment package (.zip file archive) size | 50 MB (zipped, when uploaded through the Lambda API or SDKs) ... 50 MB (when uploaded through the Lambda console) ... 250 MB The maximum size of the contents of a deployment package, including layers and custom runtimes. (unzipped)'. 'Function layers | 5 layers'. The one aggregate number is code storage: 'Storage for uploaded functions (.zip file archives) and layers using Lambda-managed storage ... 300 GB (unzipped) | Not increasable.'",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (5)
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted

aws s3 5 gb / 12-month free tier (as commonly cited) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

aws.amazon.com/free/ · rejected-provider · storage/aws-s3-5-gb-12-month-free-tier · JSON · compare

Free tierThe current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance; the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 months and the account closes at 6
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
ReliabilityThe current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance; the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 months and the account closes at 6
NotesThe current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance; the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 months and the account closes at 6
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/free/The current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 months and the account closes at 6
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/cited as the basis of the rejection: The current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance; the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 months and the account closes at 6
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "The current AWS free-tier page and S3 pricing page no longer present a perpetual or 12-month 5 GB S3 allowance; the programme is now $200 of credits over 6 months and the account closes at 6",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
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  • $.chaining not-recorded
  • $.confidence_note withheld
  • $.egress.terms not-recorded
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

gamesparks Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

aws.amazon.com/gamesparks/getting-started/ · rejected-provider · storage/gamesparks · JSON · compare

Free tierRetired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
ReliabilityRetired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.
NotesRetired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/gamesparks/getting-started/Retired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.
2026-10-21github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/commit/c081b8d977113b75474a81cited as the basis of the rejection: Retired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.
More fields (1)
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "write-gated",
  "why": "Retired. AWS states 'Amazon GameSparks (Preview) is no longer accepting new customers'; the AWS SDK has removed the service entirely. Nothing to sign up for.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
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  • $.chaining not-recorded
  • $.confidence_note withheld
  • $.egress.terms not-recorded
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

Amazon SageMaker Studio Compute

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docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.html · GPU cloud · compute/amazon-sagemaker-studio · JSON · compare

Free tierno free tier available: 'Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.'
unit none; metered on none; The service still exists for accounts already enrolled; a new account cannot obtain it.
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot applicable: the unit is a session, not an object
Retentionnot applicable: no new account can be created
Egressnot applicable: no new account can be created
Identityemail not available: the service is closed to new customers regardless of identity
Limits
  • write-gated registration closed to new customers source
the signup door is shut, so nothing else binds: the session cap is unreachable for any account created today
Bindingnone the binding constraint is a closed signup, so no quota is ever reached
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withThe replacement AWS names is a CPU-only free instance (ml.t3.medium); the GPU lane does not migrate, so this offering closes rather than moves.
Reliabilityexisting accounts keep working; the vendor states it will introduce no new features
NotesNo GPU class, hours or RAM are recorded because no new account can measure them and the page no longer states them.
Evidence rungdocumented the closure notice is quoted from the vendor's own page today. The corpus already recorded this provider as dead, and that is correct.
Checked2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Evidence (5)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.htmlquoted: 'Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.'
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab-availabilquoted: AWS does not plan to introduce new features and names SageMaker Studio as the replacement, pointing at the SageMaker AI free tier whose free instance is ml.t3.medium
2026-10-22docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab-availabilquoted: Studio Lab had fixed 12 GB RAM and 15 GB storage limits; the replacement GPU instances are G6 and G6e, both paid
2026-10-24docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.htmlquoted: 'Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.'
2026-10-24docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.htmlquoted: 'Studio Lab is a free service that gives customers access to AWS compute resources, in an environment based on open-source JupyterLab 4.' — what the closed service was
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  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": 12,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 1
  }
 },
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram_gib": null,
  "disk_gib": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
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 "billing_model": "free",
 "m10h_usd": null,
 "m24h_usd": null,
 "price_arithmetic": "not applicable: registration is closed",
 "free_tier_kind": "closed",
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "not applicable"
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 "units": "RAM and disk are quoted in the vendor's own decimal GB, not GiB. The ram_gib and disk_gib keys carry the vendor's number unconverted, so where a vendor writes 30 GB the key holds 30 and the true value is about 27.9 GiB. No conversion was performed."
}
Unknown or withheld values (2)
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.tooling not-stated

AWS App Runner Egress and tunnels

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docs.aws.amazon.com/apprunner/latest/dg/what-is-apprunner.ht · paas l4 port · egress/aws-app-runner · JSON · compare

Free tierAWS App Runner is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.
unit none; metered on none
PriceUSD 0
Per-object capnot applicable
Retentionnot applicable
EgressNo free tier; the service is closed to new customers.; ingress: http-only
free_allowance: No free tier; the service is closed to new customers.
Identitycard An AWS account with a payment method, which is moot: "AWS App Runner is no longer open to new customers."
Limits
  • volume-quota closed to new customers source
Bindingvolume-quota Nothing can be provisioned at all, so no test applies.
Interfacerest, cli AWS CLI, SDKs, and the App Runner API.
ToolingAWS CLI and console for existing customers.
Composes withNot reachable for a new client.
ReliabilityNone applicable; no new deployments possible.
NotesRecorded as dead for new signups, not deleted: an existing account can still use it. No free tier ever applied.
Evidence rungdocumented The availability banner is first-party and dated by the page itself; a re-read in a later quarter is what would reopen it.
Checked2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers
  • $.price_per_tb_month price-per-tb USD0.0 TB / month
Evidence (1)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-23docs.aws.amazon.com/apprunner/latest/dg/what-is-apprunner.ht"AWS App Runner is no longer open to new customers" and AWS recommends ECS Express Mode instead
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 "wg_path": "none",
 "wg_detail": "No UDP path, and no new accounts: the service is closed to new customers.",
 "ingress": "http-only",
 "volume_tib_month": 0,
 "volume_stated": "No free tier; the service is closed to new customers.",
 "bytes_transit": "no",
 "transit_note": "HTTP only, and unavailable to new accounts."
}
Unknown or withheld values (2)
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
  • $.retention.stated not-applicable

amazon sqs Storage

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aws.amazon.com/sqs/pricing/ · rejected-provider · storage/amazon-sqs · JSON · compare

Free tier1M requests/month free and 1 MiB max message sound workable, but max retention is 14 days (default 4). It is a buffer, not storage — anything written is gone in two weeks. Free-tier request
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
Reliability1M requests/month free and 1 MiB max message sound workable, but max retention is 14 days (default 4). It is a buffer, not storage — anything written is gone in two weeks. Free-tier request
Notes1M requests/month free and 1 MiB max message sound workable, but max retention is 14 days (default 4). It is a buffer, not storage — anything written is gone in two weeks. Free-tier request
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/sqs/pricing/1M requests/month free and 1 MiB max message sound workable, but max retention is 14 days (default 4). It is a buffer, not storage — anything written is gone in two weeks. Free-tier request
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDevelopecited as the basis of the rejection: 1M requests/month free and 1 MiB max message sound workable, but max retention is 14 days (default 4). It is a buffer, not storage — anything written is gone in two weeks. Free-tier request
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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "dead-service",
  "why": "1M requests/month free and 1 MiB max message sound workable, but max retention is 14 days (default 4). It is a buffer, not storage — anything written is gone in two weeks. Free-tier request",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (15)
  • $.chaining not-recorded
  • $.confidence_note withheld
  • $.egress.terms not-recorded
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded

sagemaker studio lab Storage

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docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.html · rejected-provider · storage/sagemaker-studio-lab · JSON · compare

Free tierDead in 2026: closed to new signups. AWS docs state 'no longer open to new customers' and point at SageMaker Studio instead. The 15 GB persistent free disk still exists for legacy accounts b
unit none; metered on none
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot recorded
Retentionnot recorded
Egressnot recorded
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Bindingnone no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot recorded
Composes withnot recorded
ReliabilityDead in 2026: closed to new signups. AWS docs state 'no longer open to new customers' and point at SageMaker Studio instead. The 15 GB persistent free disk still exists for legacy accounts b
NotesDead in 2026: closed to new signups. AWS docs state 'no longer open to new customers' and point at SageMaker Studio instead. The 15 GB persistent free disk still exists for legacy accounts b
Evidence rungreported
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (2)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.htmlDead in 2026: closed to new signups. AWS docs state 'no longer open to new customers' and point at SageMaker Studio instead. The 15 GB persistent free disk still exists for legacy accounts b
2026-10-21docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab-availabilcited as the basis of the rejection: Dead in 2026: closed to new signups. AWS docs state 'no longer open to new customers' and point at SageMaker Studio instead. The 15 GB persistent free disk still exists for legacy accounts b
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{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "dead-service",
  "why": "Dead in 2026: closed to new signups. AWS docs state 'no longer open to new customers' and point at SageMaker Studio instead. The 15 GB persistent free disk still exists for legacy accounts b",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown or withheld values (15)
  • $.chaining not-recorded
  • $.confidence_note withheld
  • $.egress.terms not-recorded
  • $.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.identity_cost.detail defaulted
  • $.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
  • $.interface interface-unknown
  • $.interface_detail withheld
  • $.limits_note process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
  • $.retention.notes process
  • $.retention.stated not-recorded
  • $.tooling not-recorded