From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers

AWS account and pricing - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers

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AWS account and pricing

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- [Instructor] Of course, one of the first things we should talk about when developing on AWS is getting an AWS developer account. So if you go to aws.amazon.com, you see the typical start page with a lot of information and panes and tiles and links, and it's a lot of really great information. So what I like to do is show people the aws.amazon.com/free site. Free is good. And here it encourage you to create a free account. Now, what it means is that a lot of the services are free. It also means the account's free. When you sign up for account, you do have to give them a credit card number in case you go over any of the limits or use services that cost. But, we can filter the different free services by featured or 12 months or always free. And you get a really good sense of what services are free and what kind of limitations are on them. So if we click the always free over here, we see that you can always use 25 gig in DynamoDB and it'll be free. You can always have a million requests to your Lambdas in a month and it'll be free. So the limits for the cost are very high. It's very generous, in my opinion. And so you can get a real good sense of what costs here. Everything we do in this course should be free. If anything does cost, you can always go to the billing feature, which we'll look at later and see what the cost is going to be estimated at and then turn it off. So you can click this create an AWS account up in the top right, and it'll walk you through the typical process for signing up for an account. Again, you have to give them the credit card number in case you do go over any of the limitations for charges. In my experience, even if you do, it's going to be very little, so not too much concern there, but always try to be aware of what does cost. So, sign up for the account and then we'll get started.

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