Free Tier Cloud Service
In today’s digital age, building a personal brand is critical for career growth and professional success. One of the best ways to start building your personal brand is by leveraging cloud services. Many cloud providers offer an “Always Free Tier” plan that provides free access to several cloud services. In this blog post, we will discuss how to make the most of the Always Free Tier cloud service to build your personal brand and small startup business.
Part I
Public Cloud
AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/free/
- 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support)
- Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL): 25 GB of storage
- AWS Lambda (FaaS): 1 Million free requests per month
- Amazon SNS: 1 Million publishes
Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- US$200 credit for 30 days
- Popular services free for 12 months
Oracle Cloud
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
- Compute: (Note- 1 Oracle OCPU = 2 vCPUs)
- 2 AMD-based VMs: ⅛ OCPU = 0.25 vCPU with 1 GB RAM each
- 4 Arm-based VMs: 24 GB RAM total, 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB memory hours per month
- 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total
- 10 GB Object Storage - Standard
- 10 GB Object Storage - Infrequent Access
- 10 GB Archive Storage
- 10TB of network data egress/month per originating region
- Resource Manager (managed terraform)
- 5 OCI Bastions
- 2 Oracle Autonomous Databases incl. Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle SQL Developer etc., each with 20GB storage
- NoSQL Database with 25GB storage per table, up to 3 tables
- 4 Load Balancers: 1 Flexible (10Mbps) and 3 Network
- Monitoring and Notifications
NoSQL
MongoDB Atlas
https://www.mongodb.com/atlas/database
- 512MB to 5GB of storage
- 100 concurrent connections
Redis Labs
https://redis.com/redis-enterprise-cloud/pricing/
- 30MB RAM
- Redis Modules
- 1 dedicated database
- 30 connections
Vercel KV
https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-kv
- 30,000 Requests
- 50,000 reads / month
Cloudflare KV
https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-kv/
SQL
Oracle CLoud
- Two databases total, each with 1 OCPU** and 20 GB storage.
ElephantSQL
https://www.elephantsql.com/plans.html
- 20 MB storage
- 5 concurrent connections
PlanetScale
https://planetscale.com/
TiDB Cloud
https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial
Static Site
- Cloudflare Pages:
https://pages.cloudflare.com/
- Azure Static Web Apps:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/static/
- Github Page:
https://pages.github.com/
- Gitlab Page:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/
- Vercel:
https://vercel.com/pricing
- Netlify:
https://www.netlify.com/pricing/
- Render:
https://render.com/pricing
CI/CD
- Azure DevOps:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/
- Github Action:
https://github.com/pricing
FaaS / Serverless
- Cloudflare worker:
https://workers.cloudflare.com/
- Vercel:
https://vercel.com/pricing
Monitor & Log
- Grafana Cloud:
https://grafana.com/products/cloud/
- Datadog:
https://www.datadog.com/pricing
- Sentry:
https://sentry.io/pricing/
Free SSL
- ZeroSSL:
https://app.zerossl.com
- Let’s Encrypt:
https://letsencrypt.org/
DNS hosting
- Cloudflare
- ClouDNS:
https://www.cloudns.net/
Free API
- public-apis:
https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
Part II
PageSpeed Insights
- Google PageSpeed Insights:
https://pagespeed.web.dev/
- GTmetrix:
https://gtmetrix.com/
- Experte:
https://www.experte.com/pagespeed
- Mobile Friendly Test:
https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly
https://www.experte.com/pagespeed
Graph
- Draw.io
- ProcessOn:
https://www.processon.io/
Analytics
- Google Analytics
- unami:
https://umami.is/pricing
https://clarity.microsoft.com/
Status page
- Atlassian Statuspage:
https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage/pricing
- Better Stack:
https://betterstack.com/
- Instatus:
https://instatus.com/
Search Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Bing Webmaster Tools
Ads
- Google Ads
- Facebook Ads
Legal Documents
- Termsly:
https://termly.io/pricing/
- Privacy Policy Generator:
https://www.privacypolicygenerator.info/
- TermsFeed:
https://www.termsfeed.com/
Chatbot
- Bridger:
https//bridger.chat
https://crisp.chat
Mail as a Service
- Mailgun:
https://www.mailgun.com/
- Test Mail:
https://testmail.app/
Logo
https://yesicon.app/
For Student
- Github Student Pack:
https://education.github.com/pack
Reference
https://landingpage.fyi/landing-page-checklist.html
https://free-for.dev/
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