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  "name": "AWS",
  "slug": "aws",
  "pricingModel": "paid",
  "normalized": {
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      "perMonth": 6,
      "unit": "unknown",
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      "billing": "unknown",
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      "contactSales": false
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      {
        "plan": "Free Tier",
        "perMonth": 0,
        "unit": "unknown",
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        "billing": "unknown",
        "free": true,
        "contactSales": false
      },
      {
        "plan": "Pay-as-you-go",
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  "pricingDetails": {
    "tiers": [
      {
        "name": "Free Tier",
        "price": "$0",
        "features": [
          "12 months free for many services",
          "750 hours EC2 t2.micro",
          "5GB S3 storage",
          "25GB DynamoDB",
          "1M Lambda requests/month"
        ],
        "billingPeriod": "month"
      },
      {
        "name": "Pay-as-you-go",
        "price": "Usage-based",
        "features": [
          "No upfront costs",
          "Pay only for what you use",
          "No long-term contracts",
          "200+ services available"
        ],
        "billingPeriod": "month"
      },
      {
        "name": "Savings Plans",
        "price": "Up to 72% off",
        "features": [
          "1 or 3 year commitment",
          "Flexible usage",
          "Compute and ML discounts",
          "Measured in $/hour"
        ],
        "billingPeriod": "year"
      }
    ],
    "hasFreeTier": true,
    "hasFreeTrial": true
  },
  "costFacts": null,
  "pricesByRegion": null,
  "verdict": "AWS dominates cloud infrastructure with 31% market share and the broadest service catalog (200+ services), but that breadth is also its biggest cost trap. The free tier is genuinely useful (750hrs EC2 t3.micro, 5GB S3, 1M Lambda requests/month) but expires after 12 months for most services except Lambda and DynamoDB. AWS is not expensive by default, it is expensive when you do not actively manage costs. Teams that use Reserved Instances or Savings Plans save 30-60%, but teams that run everything on-demand and ignore their bill routinely overspend by 30-40%.",
  "bestFor": "Startups and scale-ups that need elastic infrastructure growing from zero to millions of users | Enterprise teams already invested in the AWS ecosystem (200+ services, deep integrations) | DevOps teams running containerized microservices (ECS, EKS, Fargate) | Data-heavy workloads: machine learning (SageMaker), big data (Redshift, EMR), real-time analytics (Kinesis)",
  "hiddenCosts": [
    "Data transfer out: First 100GB/month is free, then $0.09/GB.",
    "Cross-AZ data transfer: $0.01/GB in each direction between availability zones. Multi-AZ RDS, ECS tasks spread across AZs, and ALB routing all generate cross-AZ traffic.",
    "EBS storage is not cheap at scale: gp3 volumes cost $0.08/GB/month.",
    "CloudWatch logging costs: Log ingestion costs $0.50/GB.",
    "Support plan costs: Basic support is free but only covers billing.",
    "Free tier expiration trap: EC2 (750hrs t3.micro), RDS (750hrs db.t3.micro), and S3 (5GB) free tiers expire after 12 months. Many startups budget assuming free tier and get surprised by a 3-10x cost jump at month 13. Lambda and DynamoDB free tiers are permanent."
  ],
  "recentChanges": [],
  "priceHistory": [],
  "partnerLink": false,
  "correction": "This price may be out of date. If the vendor's page differs, call report_issue with evidence_url and quote, or verify_price.",
  "provenance": {
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-10-14",
    "sourceUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/pricing",
    "confidence": "medium"
  },
  "source": "Toolradar",
  "citation": "Toolradar, verified 2026-10-14, https://toolradar.com/tools/aws/pricing",
  "affiliateUrl": "https://toolradar.com/api/go/aws?ref=mcp&key=json",
  "toolradarUrl": "https://toolradar.com/tools/aws/pricing"
}