Cloud providers offering free-tier compute resources for hosting applications and services.
- AWS EC2 – 750 hours of t2.micro instance per month (12 months)
- Google Cloud Compute Engine – 1 f1-micro instance (Always Free)
- Azure Virtual Machines – 750 hours of B1S VM (12 months)
- Oracle Cloud Compute – 2 Always Free VMs
- IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service – Lite cluster with 1 worker node
- Fly.io – Free hobby-tier VMs
For running code without managing servers.
- AWS Lambda – 1M free requests/month
- Google Cloud Functions – 2M invocations/month
- Azure Functions – 1M executions/month
- Cloudflare Workers – 100K requests/day
- Vercel Serverless Functions – Free tier for personal projects
- Netlify Functions – 125K requests/month
For deploying websites and frontend apps.
- GitHub Pages – Free static site hosting
- Netlify – Free hosting with CI/CD
- Vercel – Free static and serverless hosting
- Cloudflare Pages – Free JAMstack hosting
- Firebase Hosting – Free tier with SSL
- Surge.sh – Simple static site hosting
- Render – Free static sites with unlimited bandwidth
Free-tier database and file storage services.
- AWS RDS (Free Tier) – 750 hours of db.t3.micro
- Google Cloud Firestore – 50K reads/day, 10GB storage
- MongoDB Atlas – Free 512MB cluster
- Neon (PostgreSQL) – Free 5GB Postgres database
- PlanetScale (MySQL) – Free 5GB database
- Redis Cloud – 30MB free Redis instance
- AWS S3 – 5GB free object storage
- Google Cloud Storage – 5GB free
- Azure Blob Storage – 5GB free
Free-tier options for handling networking, CDNs, and APIs.
- Cloudflare CDN – Free global CDN
- AWS API Gateway – 1M free requests/month
- Google Cloud API Gateway – Free tier available
- Azure API Management – 1M free API calls/month
- Vercel Edge Network – Free global CDN
- Netlify Edge Functions – Free tier
Free-tier services for app monitoring and security.
- AWS CloudWatch – 1M free log events
- Google Cloud Operations – Free 50GB log storage
- Sentry – Free error tracking
- New Relic – Free observability tier
- Datadog – Free monitoring for 1 host
- UptimeRobot – Free uptime monitoring
- Grafana Cloud – Free tier with 10K metrics
Free-tier tools for continuous integration and deployment.
- GitHub Actions – Free 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- GitLab CI/CD – Free 400 CI/CD minutes/month
- CircleCI – Free 6,000 credits/month
- Travis CI – Free for open-source projects
- Drone.io – Free for open-source repos
- Jenkins (Self-hosted) – Free forever
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