How to create AWS free tier account?

Here you know about AWS free tier account creation and usability and some interesting facts about AWS free tier accessibility.

If you are new for cloud platform and want to learn how cloud services work then Amazon Web Services(AWS) is the best option for you. Because AWS give free tier account to experience cloud platform for free.

So here I give you step by step process that you need to follow for creating AWS free tier account. And Some facts and usage limitation of Free AWS account.

So Let’s Begin And First, we see …

How to create AWS free tier account

Step 1: Go to https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Step 2: Click On Create a Free Account Button or Click on Create an AWS Account button (Top right corner) as shown below.

Step 3: In this Create a Free Account form, you need to fill in your basic information like your Email Address, Password, and Name of Your Account as shown below.

Filling this form click on continue.

Step 4: Clicking on Continue you will redirect to the Contact Information Page. Here you need to select your account type like professional or personal. And then fill your full name, Company name, Phone number, country, Address, City, State, the Postal code then after agreeing the terms and condition of AWS policy click on Create Account and Continue as shown below.

 

 

Step 5: After finishing Contact information you will be redirected to payment Information page as shown below.

Here you don’t need to pay anything, but only just to verify your identity you need to provide your payment details. Like your credit/debit card number, card expiration date, cardholder name, billing address, pan number is not mediatory. After providing all this detail click on Secure submit. 

Step 6: When you have done all this step 1 to 5 then AWS will verify your card detail with your account detail and then verify your mobile number by sending verify code by calling you or by sending a message to your registered mobile number. After this verification your done. Your AWS free tier account is ready to use.

Before you start to use AWS free tier account I give you some important Usability tips for AWS free tier account.

AWS Free Tier Usage & Facts

Here I give you some question and their answer related to aws free tier Usage & Facts

Question #1: When does the AWS free tier account expire?

When you complete all registration steps and login to your aws account after that 12 months is applicable for aws free tier account.

Question #2: Number of Instances allowed in aws free tier plan

Amazon charges based on hours of usage, not based on a number of instances you are running. So you can run many numbers of instances in aws free tier with some configuration as shown below.

They have clearly mentioned that the aws free tier includes:

1. 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux/UNIX or RHEL or SLES Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
2. 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Microsoft Windows Server‡ Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
3. 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
4. 30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 2 million I/Os and 1 GB of snapshot storage

Question #3: Elastic IP addresses

Allocating and using one Elastic IP addresses per instance is basically free, except if the Elastic IP address is not currently associated with an instance. As per section Elastic IP Addresses on page Amazon EC2 Pricing:

• $0.00 for one Elastic IP address associated with a running instance
•  $0.005 per additional Elastic IP address associated with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
•  $0.005 per Elastic IP address not associated with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis