It's been 12 years since Amazon announced their free tier, and it's still going strong.
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I don't see how that's comparable. it's one instance of a micro server(and a few other things) for one year for a new AWS user and then it's over. heroku was an unlimited number of apps free tier forever with a limit on cpu/database usage for each app.
Four CPUs, 300GiB of storage and 24GiB of RAM should last for quite some time.
If you do need the compute and bandwidth: pay someone. Pay Heroku or set up a Dokku (or similar) system on your own server.
This is Oracle. You weren't thinking of agreeing to to the T&Cs without understanding what they actually mean, were you?
The 50mbps uplink isn't spectacular and certainly not enough to run a business on, but for anything the other free tiers are intended for (experimentation and hobby use) it's sufficient.
Juet remember to never give them your credit card number and provide as little personal information as legally allowed. You don't want the lawnmower to come in your direction, the lawnmower doesn't care.
it's been 12 years, but they had a decade of other business units helping to fund their service, and can afford loss leaders like few other businesses.