Today we will talk some facts about AWS that will be helping you to use the AWS cloud. It is our another theoretical post.
In this post mainly we will talk about costing as AWS can cost you a lot if not using it wisely. Let’s begin to know some facts about AWS.
AWS Infrastructure and Costing
AWS has global infrastructure that spans 100+ Availability Zones across 30+ regions worldwide.
Regions may affect the cost of services. Also, Data transfer across regions incurs fees.
AWS uses pay-as-you-go pricing model. There are saving plans and reserved instances for long term use and spot instances for up to 90% savings.
Billing is per second for some services like EC2 Linux instances.
I hope now you know the basics about AWS infrastructure.
AWS Free Tier Account
Most of the services are free for 12 months in new accounts. We will mention the services and their usage limits now.
EC2: We can use 750 hours/month of t2.micro/t3.micro instances after that we have to pay for what we use.
S3: We will get 5 GB standard storage to use and 20000 GET and 20000 PUT requests.
Lambda: We can use free 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds compute/month.
RDS: We can use 750 hours/month of db.t2.micro and 20 GB storage.
DynamoDB: We can use 25 GB storage and 200M requests/month.
CloudFront: We can use 1 TB data transfer out/month.
CloudWatch: AWS gives 10 custom metrics and 5GB log data ingestion.
SNS: AWS gives 1M publishes and 1000 email notifications.
API Gateway: We can use 1M REST API calls/month.
EBS: We can use 30 GB general purpose SSD for our instances.
AWS Normal Account
Most of the services are paid in AWS normal account after using your free tier account but there are few services that are always free for users that are Lambda, S3 Glacier, DynamoDB and CloudWatch with usage limits.
We will talk about pricing of the major services now.
EC2: Pricing starts from $0.0116/hour for t4g.micro instance. You can check the prices of each type of instance before launching it.
S3: We have to pay $0.023/GB/month for storage and request fees.
Lambda: We have to pay $0.20 per 1M requests and $0.00001667/GB-seconds.
RDS: Pricing starts from $0.017/hour and we have to pay separate for storage.
DynamoDB: We have to pay $1.25 per WCU and $0.25 per RCU per month.
CloudFront: We have to pay $0.085/GB for first 10 TB.
CloudWatch: AWS charges $0.30/metric/month + log costs.
SNS: AWS charges $0.50 per 1M publishes.
API Gateway: We have to pay $3.50 per 1M calls.
EBS: We have to pay $0.08/GB/month for EBS.
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That’s all for Facts about AWS in 2025, You can check our more posts about AWS in our posts section.
FAQ for Facts about AWS in 2025
Q. What is the AWS Free Tier and who is eligible?
A. The AWS Free Tier offers limited free usage of many AWS services for:
12 months after you create a new account.
Certain services (like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch) always include a limited “always-free” tier, even after 12 months.
Q. What happens when the Free Tier expires?
A. Once the 12-month period ends (or if you exceed the limits earlier), you are automatically billed at standard pay-as-you-go rates. AWS will not notify you unless you set billing alerts.
Q. How can I avoid surprise charges?
A. Use AWS Budgets to set custom usage or cost alerts.
Turn on billing alerts in the AWS Billing Console.
Regularly check the Cost Explorer for usage trends.
Delete unused resources (like stopped EC2 instances or unattached EBS volumes).
Q. Which AWS services are best to explore without spending money?
A. These are safe and commonly used within the Free Tier:
EC2 t2.micro / t3.micro
S3 (within 5 GB limit)
Lambda
RDS with db.t2.micro (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
API Gateway (within 1M calls/month)
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