[Jenk]

AWS (and generally all *aaS providers) free tier(s) are enough to experiment with, and get a feel for, but are limited enough that using them in any meaningful way is very difficult without incurring cost.

Surely you can appreciate that "time" is not the only commodity that can be meaningfully (and reasonably) limited?

[tedmiston]

That said, much (but not all) of the AWS "Free Tier" is really just a 12-month free trial. Only a small percentage of the offerings are truly longterm freemium.

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

[ptman]

https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/ - you can do quite a bit with some free tiers, and some don't have a time limit

[thfuran]

Are you under the impression that their contention is that avoiding free tiers is essential?