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Beware inaccurate info:

In the first bullet: AWS is completely free for the first year of use, after that, you get charged for what you use.

At a minimum, that needs a disclaimer that there is a fairy generous but not unlimited free tier to be right.

A lot of the other providers that are free do have fair use restrictions (albeit they are very generous) that you may run up against if your site blows up.

Amazon doesn't belong on the list because it's a limited trial one year. Plus if you go over the limits you are charged.

You can game some free resources over the trial period if you are careful. Not the best for set and forget.

The details are in the article (at least now).

That's true. However, I think the phrase "completely free" is misleading since the truth is that it's free until you accidentally use too much--which isn't something you have all that much control over if you're hosting a static website on S3.

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