AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever…

1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…

Re: AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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Post by paulryanrogers » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 4:19 AM UTC

If you go with a paid plan and only consume the "always free" services, then I guess it's still basically free? Except perhaps for any paid service you absolutely cannot opt out of for your use case.

Ah well, there's always LocalStack for test environments.

Re: AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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Post by mcny » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 4:42 AM UTC

reactordev wrote: post #4

Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… 1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…

For students to learn effectively, they need a safe harbor. The most critical offering for learners on AWS is a free or prepaid account tier that completely eliminates the risk of surprise bills, allowing them to focus purely on their education.

If the free forever portion includes a t4g.small, 1 aurora, a 10 GB S3 bucket, that would be perfect.

I am not holding my breath though.

Re: AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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Post by lazystar » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 4:42 AM UTC

reactordev wrote: post #4

Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… 1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…

> have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever…

i could see a $10/month sub being a thing, but free forever... cmon, you know ppl would abuse the hell outta that.

Re: AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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Post by charcircuit » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 4:52 AM UTC

If AWS could lower their bandwidth prices by 99% it would revolutionize the internet.

Re: AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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Post by arccy » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 4:53 AM UTC

lazystar wrote: post #7

reactordev wrote: post #4

Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… 1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…

> have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… i could see a $10/month sub being a thing, but free forever... cmon, you know ppl would abuse the hell outta that.

GCP manages to do it, AWS are just greedy and bad at DX

Re: AWS Free Tier Changes on July 15, 2025

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Post by dsign » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 5:10 AM UTC

>> Using Amazon Bedrock playground

I’m calling out more LLM force-feeding! Why are rich corporations so hell-bent on replacing humans? Does Jeff Bezos think he will rule the Machines after they get rid of the plebeians?