In case you haven't seen this, from November 1 http://aws.amazon.com/free/ New customers only. Must provide a valid CC and you'll pay for all use over the free tier limits - 12 months of : AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month): - 750 hours of Amazon EC2 <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2> Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month* - 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer<http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/> plus 15 GB data processing* - 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage <http://aws.amazon.com/ebs>, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests* - 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage <http://aws.amazon.com/s3>, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests* - 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)* - 25 Amazon SimpleDB <http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb> Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage** - 100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service<http://aws.amazon.com/sqs> ** - 100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service<http://aws.amazon.com/sns> ** In addition to these services, the AWS Management Console<http://aws.amazon.com/console> is available at no charge to help you build and manage your application on AWS.