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AWS Free Tier

Learn more about building Containers with AWS

Build Containers for Free on AWS

Free offers and services you need to run containers in the cloud

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Benefits

Containers are a powerful way for developers to package and deploy their applications. They are lightweight and provide a consistent, portable software environment for applications to easily run and scale anywhere. 80% of all containers in the cloud run on AWS. Customers such as Samsung, Expedia, GoDaddy, and Snap choose to run their containers on AWS because of our security, reliability, and scalability.

Containers provide process isolation that makes it easy to break apart and run applications as independent components called microservices.

Containers make it easy to package entire applications and move them to the cloud without needing to make any code changes.

Use containers to build platforms that remove the need for developers to manage infrastructure and standardize how your applications are deployed and managed.

Free Product Offers

Build container solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS
PRODUCT PRICING
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)Container Registry

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere.  

12 MONTHS FREE

500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories 

Amazon ECR pricing
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Container Orchestration

Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. It deeply integrates with the rest of the AWS platform to provide a secure and easy-to-use solution for running container workloads in the cloud.

ALWAYS FREE

Amazon ECS is always free. You pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and memory) you create to store and run your application.  

Amazon ECS pricing
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere Hybrid Deployments
A feature of Amazon ECS that enables you to easily run containers on customer-managed infrastructure, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers.
6 MONTHS FREE

2,200 instance hours per month
Amazon ECS Anywhere pricing
Amazon Lightsail Virtual Private Server
Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers you everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.
3 MONTH FREE TRIAL

Offer only applies to one bundle per account. Standard charges apply after first 750 hours of usage of the selected bundle each month.

Try the 3.50/mo, $5/mo, or $10/mo plans for free for three months when using Linux/Unix

Try the $8 USD, $12, or $20 plans for free for three months when using Windows

Try the $10 USD per node for free for three months when using Containers

Try the $15 USD database plans for free for three months when using Databases
 
Amazon Lightsail pricing 
Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud

EC2 virtual machines gives you control of your server clusters and provide a broad range of customization options. 

12 MONTHS FREE

750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, SLES or Windows t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region

Amazon EC2 pricing

Learn more about Containers

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS

Videos

Tutorials

Getting Started with Containers

In this getting started exercise, you will learn how to run containers on AWS. Follow step-by-step tutorials and workshops, read documentation, watch videos, and read blogs on your specific use case.
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Creating, pushing, and deploying container images with Amazon Lightsail

In this tutorial, we show you how to create a container image on your local machine using a Dockerfile. After your image is created, you can then push it to your Lightsail container service to deploy it.
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Getting started with Amazon ECS Anywhere

In this getting started exercise, you will learn how to run an application in an AWS Region as well as on an arbitrary customer-managed infrastructure.
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Train a Deep Learning model with AWS Deep Learning Containers on Amazon EC2

In this tutorial, you will train a TensorFlow machine learning model on an Amazon EC2 instance using the AWS Deep Learning Containers.
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AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier offers users an opportunity to explore products for free, with offers including products that are always free, free for 12 months, and short-term free trials.

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Get Started

Creating an AWS account is free and gives you immediate access to the AWS Free Tier.

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