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by joshstrange 2761 days ago
Ahh ok, thank you for clarify. This makes more sense even if it makes me a little sad. I'd love to use AWS for side/hobby stuff and then use the cloud-version once I was ready to launch something. I just can't justify paying $7 minimum a month for a VM when I have 2 cloud servers and 3 home servers already that are all more powerful.

I hate that for AWS you have to either pay to develop or use hacky semi-equivalents locally and hope it works when you go to the cloud.
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atonse 2761 days ago
They have a free tier for exactly this purpose. Almost all the services have pretty reasonable free tiers.
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joshstrange 2761 days ago
But AWS (maybe others as well) only lasts for 1 year and lambda and stuff might have higher free tiers but stuff like EC2 barely covers a T1 micro IIRC.
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insomniacity 2761 days ago
You can sign up new accounts, even on the same credit card. Additionally I believe that if you contact support and agree for them to wipe all the resources in your account - you can have another year of free tier again.

And of course, you're deploying all your stuff automatically anyway right? So wiping the account doesn't really matter.

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