Cloud Storage Solutions for Free
Free offers and services you need to deploy storage and content delivery solutions in the cloud
Free Product Offers
Deploy cloud storage solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier
Amazon CloudFront
Web service to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds
- 50 GB of data transfer out
- 2,000,000 HTTP or HTTPS requests
Amazon EFS
Simple, scalable, shared file storage service for Amazon EC2 instances
- 5GB of storage
AWS Storage Gateway
Hybrid cloud storage with seamless local integration and optimized data transfer
- Up to 100GB/month free, up to $125/month maximum charges
- No transfer charges into AWS
Amazon Glacier
Long-term, secure, durable object storage
10 GB of Amazon Glacier data retrievals per month for free. The free tier allowance can be used at any time during the month and applies to standard retrievals
Amazon S3
Secure, durable, and scalable object storage infrastructure
- 5 GB of standard storage
- 20,000 Get requests
- 2,000 Put requests
Amazon Elastic Block Storage
Persistent, durable, low-latency block-level storage volumes for EC2 instances
- 30 GB of Amazon EBS: any combination of general purpose (SSD) or magnetic
- 2,000,000 I/O (with EBS magnetic)
- 1 GB of snapshot storage
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Learn more about AWS Cloud Storage
View the following videos to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS
Introduction to Amazon S3
Introducing AWS Storage Gateway
Deep Dive on Amazon Glacier
10-Minute Tutorials
Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS storage solutions
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Store and Retrieve a File with Amazon S3
This step-by-step tutorial will help you store your files in the cloud using Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3). Amazon S3 is a service that enables you to store your data (referred to as objects) at massive scale. In this tutorial, you will create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file. -
Create a Network File System with Amazon EFS
In this 10-Minute Tutorial, you will store your files in the cloud using Amazon EFS. You will create an Amazon EFS file system, launch a Linux virtual machine on Amazon EC2, mount the file system, create a file, terminate the instance, and delete the file system.
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Deliver Content Faster with Amazon CloudFront
In this tutorial, you will learn how to deliver content and decrease end-user latency of your web application using Amazon CloudFront. In the following steps, you will configure an Amazon S3 bucket as the origin and test your distribution using a web browser to ensure that your content is being delivered.
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Batch upload files to the cloud with Amazon S3 and AWS CLI
In this tutorial we are going to help you use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to access Amazon S3. We will do this so you can easily build your own scripts for backing up your files to the cloud and easily retrieve them as needed. This will make automating your backup process faster, more reliable, and more programmatic. You can use this information to build a scheduled task (or cron job) to handle your backup operations.