Comparing the free tier offers of the major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, alibaba-cloud etc.
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud
- Oracle Cloud
- IBM Cloud
- Scaleway
- DigitalOcean
- Hetzner Cloud
- render
- Netlify
- Heroku
Homepage: AWS Free Tier
- Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL): 25 GB of storage
- AWS Lambda (FaaS): 1 Million free requests per month
- Amazon SNS: 1 Million publishes
Homepage: Azure Free Tier
- $200 credit
Homepage: Google Cloud Free Tier
Homepage: Alibaba Cloud Free Trial
Homepage: Oracle Cloud Free Tier
- US$300 credit for 30 days
- Up to eight instances across all available services
- Up to 5 TB of storage
- Two Compute VMs;
- Block, Object, and Archive Storage;
- Load Balancer and data egress;
- Monitoring and Notifications;
- Two Oracle Autonomous Databases incl. Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle SQL Developer etc.
Homepage: IBM Cloud Free Tier
- US$200 credit for 30 days
Homepage: Scaleway
- sometimes they give away free credits
Homepage: DigitalOcean
- $100 credit for 60 days from do.co/hf100
- nothing
Homepage: Hetzner Cloud
- sometimes they give away free credits
- nothing
Homepage: render
- sometimes they give away free credits
- static site hosting
Homepage: Netlify
- sometimes they give away free credits
- static site hosting
Homepage: Heroku
- sometimes they give away free credits
- free "dyno" (VPS) with 512MB RAM and 550 hours runtime
- PostgreSQL with 10k rows and 20 connections
- Redis with 25MB RAM and 20 connections