AWS Free Usage Tier Offer Terms

The AWS Free Usage Tier offer (the “Offer”) provides eligible customers with the following usage amounts of certain AWS services, each month, at no cost, for one year:

• 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Linux Micro Instances;
• 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Microsoft Windows Server Micro Instances;
• 750 hours of Elastic Load Balancing and 15 Gigabytes (GB) of data processing using Elastic Load Balancing;
• 30 GB of storage in Amazon Elastic Block Storage plus 2 million input/output requests and 1 GB snapshot storage;
• 5 GB of storage in Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3) plus 20,000 “get” requests and 2,000 “put” requests for objects stored in Amazon S3; and
• 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services.

Terms and Conditions

• These free tiers are only available to new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date. You will not be eligible for the Offer if you or your organization create(s) more than one account to receive additional benefits under the Offer or if the new account is included in Consolidated Billing. You will be charged standard rates for use of AWS services if we determine that you are not eligible for the Offer.
• New benefits added to the Offer will be available to you for the remainder of your one year term. The addition of new benefits will not extend the one-year term of existing AWS customers who are already participating in the Offer or whose one-year term has already expired.
• You must create and maintain an AWS account in good standing (including a valid credit card) to participate in the Offer. Your participation in the Offer and your use of the AWS services is subject to the AWS Customer Agreement. The Offer is a Special Pricing Program under the AWS Customer Agreement.
• Only accounts created after October 20, 2010 are eligible for the Offer. The Offer does not apply to any use of the AWS services prior to November 1, 2010.
• You will be charged standard rates for use of the AWS services prior to November 1, 2010 or after the Offer expires. You also will be charged AWS’s standard rates for any use that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer.
• You will be charged standard rates for use of the Amazon EC2 Microsoft Windows Server Micro Instances prior to January 1, 2012.
• If you have not used the AWS resources provided under the Offer during the previous 3 months, we may reclaim those AWS resources after giving you 30 days notice. Even if your AWS resources are reclaimed, you may continue to participate in the Offer using new AWS resources.
• You may participate in the Offer for one year from the date you first sign up for any of the services provided under the Offer.
• Unused usage amounts remaining at the end of the month do not roll over to subsequent months.
• When calculating your use of AWS services under the Offer, we will aggregate your use across all AWS regions.
• We may stop accepting new registrations for the Offer at any time.
• Existing free tier offers for Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon Simple Notification Service are subject to separate terms and conditions described on the pricing pages for those services and the AWS Service Terms.