What does the AWS free tier include for EC2?
750 hours per month of t2.micro instances for 12 months. This is enough to run one instance 24/7 (730 hours/month). Also includes 30 GB of EBS storage and 750 hours of AWS Lambda.
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Use the free tier (t2.micro, MongoDB Atlas free tier, Vercel/Netlify for frontend), stop instances when not in use, use Spot instances for non-critical work, choose the right instance type, use reserved instances for production, and set up billing alerts.
Elastic IPs when not attached to a running instance (~$3.60/month), NAT Gateway ($0.045/hour + data), Load Balancer (~$16/month), EBS beyond 30 GB ($0.08/GB), and data transfer out beyond 100 GB/month ($0.09/GB).
Only for production instances that run 24/7 and you know you'll need long-term. 1-year reserved gives 30-40% discount, 3-year gives 50-75%. For development, use on-demand or spot instances instead.
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