Use Amazon Web Services for free

Starting from November 1, Amazon will give some free services for new customers. The offer goes well beyond the usual "try before you buy". For a year, each month you can get:
- 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage
- 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer
(Mind you, a 31-day month is just 744 hours - you can run one machine continuously for free!)
- 10 GB of EBS storage and 5 GB S3 storage
- 30 GB of internet transfer (15 in, 15 out)


Also all customers, new and existing will get another free usage tier that won't expire in 12 months.
- 25 hours and 1 GB of storage for Amazon SimpleDB
- 100 thousands requests for Simple Queue Servisc and Simple Notification Service.


See AWS website for details. It made me wish I didn't sign up a couple of years ago.

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