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Beware that free tier has 15 GB upload limit.

  Data Transfer
  
  15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*

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I'd always recommend anyone using the free tier to add a free billing alert to your AWS account. For example when I had a free tier server, it cost me roughly $5/month, so I had an alert set to $15/month.

When my free tier ran out (I got the month wrong) the alert notified me ($16 in charges) and I purchased a reserved instance to bring the cost back down to under $10/month.

Until / unless there is a way to actually put a cap on billing (not just a notification), it's something I'll stay away from when I can.

Which data and servers did you want deleted when you hit that cap? ;)

Although I do think a soft cap (preventing more Ec2 launches etc) would make a lot of sense.

I want a hard cap, as in "when cap is reached save current state to disk and don't allow any more CPU time".

Yes, It is per month and further traffic costs $0.09 / GB

In case you were wondering, that adds up FAST. :)

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