AWS: How to create Free Tier Linux Instance


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:

1. Sign up for an AWS account.

2. Enter your billing address and credit card information. You will not be charged unless your usage exceeds the free usage tiers.

3. Start using AWS Cloud services, choosing from any of the products listed below.

Some terms and conditions of AWS Free Tier.

Amazon EC2
  • Resizable compute capacity in the Cloud.
  • 750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro instance usage
  • 750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro instance usage
  • For example, run 1 instance x 1 month or 2 instances x half a month
  • Expires 12 months after sign-up.


Amazon S3

  • Highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure.
  • 5 GB of Standard Storage
  • 20,000 Get Requests
  • 2,000 Put Requests
  • Expires 12 months after sign-up.


Amazon DynamoDB
  • Fast and flexible NoSQL database with seamless scalability.
  • 25 GB of Storage
  • 25 Units of Write Capacity
  • 25 Units of Read Capacity
  • Enough to handle up to 200M requests per month.
  • Does not expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.


AWS IoT
  • New AWS Free Tier Offer
  • Connect devices to the cloud
  • 250,000 Messages (published or delivered) per month
  •  Expires 12 months after sign-up.


Amazon EC2 Container Registry
  • New AWS Free Tier Offer
  • Store and retrieve Docker images
  • 500 MB-month of Storage
  • Expires 12 months after sign-up.


for more information please visit https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Creating Instance Steps

1. Log in to the account using your credentials.
AWS login page

2. Once you login the screen looks like this.
AWS main page

3. Click on EC2 to create instances
AWS Instance Page

4. Click on Launch Instance to create a new instance.

5. Here we needed to choose the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to create the instance type, as we planned to create Free Tier Linux instance I am choosing Ubuntu (Free Tier eligible). Click on Select to create the instance.
AWS AMI Selection Page
6. Here we needed to be causes to select the instance type, select only Free tier eligible,   I select t2.micro  Free tier eligible. 
AWS Instance type selection page

7. Click Configure Instance Details.
AWS Instance Details

8.Here we have so many options.

  a. We can select No of Instances
  b. We can go for purchase options if we are using this instance permently.
  c. we can use VPC.
  d. We can change the subnet.
  e. We can select the Auto-assign Public IP.
  f. IAM role.
  g. Shutdown behaviour.
  h. Enable termination protection
  i. Monitoring
  j. Tenancy

Here if we change any changes from defaults the Instance will be converted into paid once Click on Next: Add Storage.
AWS Storage Selection page

9. Here it will show the storage details if we edit some changes in the storage it will change from free tier to paid instance so just click on Next: Tag Instance.
AWS Instance Tag page

10.  We can give any name where we can find out the instance in the EC2 instance list. I given my-1st-linux. Click  Next: Configure Security Group
AWS Security settings page

11. Security Group is a set of firewall rules where we can decide that from where we want to allow this instance to be access and which prots are to be access,
for example if you are using for web hosting the TCP IP port no 80 should be access from any whare and if you are giving access to MySQL then TCP IP port 3306 should be access from that particular IP or any one. for securty reason I change the source from Anywhere to MyIP . Click on Review and Launch.

AWS Review and Launch page

12. Here It will show all the details of the instance  if you needed to change any thing click on Previous and change the details for click on Launch to create.
AWS Launch Page



13. Here this screen will allow to chose a key pair which is used to access the instance, Select Create a new key pair, provide the key pair name, Click Download key pair, and Click  Launch Instance

AWS Key donwload page14. Here it will show the Launch Status, click on View Instances.
AWS Instance view page
15. Here we can see the instance which we created. Click on the instance and below we can see the instance details and information.

AWS Instance details


















Keywords: AWS, AWS EC2 Instance, Linux Instance, Liunx, Ubuntu, AWS Linux Ubuntu. Free Tier Instance creation 

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