Nowadays you can host your blog or website for free using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting up to one year.
In other words, you only need to purchase a domain name and you don't need to pay for web hosting to host your website or blog.
Lots of step-by-step tutorials are available online to guide you how to set up a Wordpress blog on free AWS hosting.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier is designed to enable you to get hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services. The AWS Free Tier includes services with a free tier available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date, as well as additional service offers that do not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.After creating your AWS account you can use any of the products and services, listed below, for free within certain usage limits.
You can start today and automatically take advantage of the AWS Free Tier by following the steps below:
- Sign up for an AWS account.
- Enter your billing address and credit card information. You will not be charged unless your usage exceeds the free tier limits.
- Start using AWS Cloud services, choosing from any of the products listed below.
What is the AWS Free Usage Tier?
AWS is offering a free usage tier for new AWS customers. Per month, the AWS free usage tier covers:750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux or RHEL or SLES t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
750 hours of Amazon EC2 Microsoft Windows Server† t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ Micro DB Instances, running MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle BYOL or SQL Server Express Edition – enough hours to run a DB Instance continuously each month. You also get 20 GB of database storage, 10 million I/Os and 20 GB of backup storage*
750 hours of Amazon ElastiCache Micro Cache Node usage – enough hours to run continuously each month. *
30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage in any combination of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic, plus 2 million I/Os (with EBS Magnetic) and 1 GB of snapshot storage***
5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
25 GB of Storage, 25 Units of Read Capacity and 25 Units of Write Capacity, enough to handle up to 200M requests per month with Amazon DynamoDB.**
25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage**
1,000 Amazon SWF workflow executions can be initiated for free. A total of 10,000 activity tasks, signals, timers and markers, and 30,000 workflow-days can also be used for free**
100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service**
100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service**
10 Amazon Cloudwatch metrics, 10 alarms, and 1,000,000 API requests**
50 GB Data Transfer Out, 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS Requests for Amazon CloudFront*
15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*
* These free tiers are only available to existing AWS customers who have signed-up for Free Tier after October 20, 2010 and new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates (see each service page for full pricing details). Restrictions apply; see offer terms for more details.
For EC2 and RDS Free Tier, t1.micro may be substituted for t2.micro.
**These free tiers are available to both existing and new AWS customers indefinitely. For EC2 and RDS Free Tier, t1.micro may be substituted for t2.micro.
***If the combined usage is still under 30GB, both will be free. If the combined usage is over 30GB, the more expensive storage will count against the free tier first.
When does the AWS free usage tier expire?
The AWS free usage tier will expire 12 months from the date you sign up. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates (see each service page for full pricing details). Restrictions apply; see offer terms for more details.Amazon Simple Workflow Service, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Notification Service, and Amazon Simple Queue Service free tiers are available to both existing and new AWS customers indefinitely.
What do I need to do to qualify for the AWS free usage tier?
The AWS free usage tier is available to all new customer accounts – students, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies are all welcome to sign up. To start using the AWS free usage tier, create an AWS account, subscribe to the services you’d like to use, and enter a valid credit card.Link