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This isn't really free - it's just free for first year until your free tier runs out. It's still super cheap though. I host several sites with this setup and never have a bill over $2 / month. Benefit of this setup over github pages / netlify / etc is it uses standard primitives and will always exist. I used to use Heroku to host several sites and had to go through a massive migration when they stopped offering a free tier.

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The odds are good that it will "always" exist, not really always of course but long enough that we don't care. However, Amazon may come to the decision that it's not worth keeping this low spending tier of customer and price them out of the service.

Hopefully, it's a good enough of a hook to get you started on AWS that it is worth it to keep it cheap like it is now.

>Amazon may come to the decision that it's not worth keeping this low spending tier of customer and price them out of the service.

Given the downward pricing trends of cloud providers for past few years as well as increased competition (Azure & GCP primarily) I think we can safely assume pricing tiers will remain reasonable.

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