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"...AWS RDS Sevice. It offers t2.micro for free during the first 12 months. It is fine for development. However, I will not recommend using it in production."

I think maybe they were talking specifically about not using the t2.micro instance size in production.

Do you know what the downsides would be of using a t2.micro in production (for a low volume of requests)?

Hi ameliaquining, like bootlooped pointed out, I am suggesting to not use t2.micro in production and not RDS.

Hi, thanks for the write-up, very informative! What would be the lowest instance type you would recommend for a similar setup? I have an app I'm thinking of porting to AWS...

C/M should do it for general workloads in production, R/I on RDS. If you are doing something specific, you may have to look closely at the resource bottlenecks on those instances. t2.micro should be fine for development.

Nothing is "wrong" with it, you just can't feasibly do it for free.