AWS Free Tier Limits – Everything You Need To Know

What to do when the AWS free tier time is over?

Set your Budget

Use AWS Budgets to create custom cost and usage budgets that notify you when you exceed (or are about to exceed) your budgeted amount. With AWS Budgets, you can also set custom utilization targets for reserved instances including Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon ElastiCache, receiving alerts whenever your usage drops below your set utilization target.

Optimize Resource Usage

You might be overpaying by leaving instances running during non-production times when you don’t need them. Cutting down on such costs will prove effective in the long run when using AWS Services after your Free-Tier is over.

Set Sizing Limits

AWS suggests that you use CloudWatch metrics to get a full view of your environment and make a habit of right-sizing once per month to keep the process smooth.

Plan your Tagging Structure

Tagging gives you the ability to attach custom metadata to instances, images, and more. Resources can be categorized by owner, purpose, or environment, helping you stay organized, improve visibility, and keep your costs in check.

Establish Governance

Clear policies and processes to keep usage, capacity requirements, and billing in check are all part of cloud and cost management and should remain an ongoing priority as you continue using AWS or any cloud service provider.

Utilize AWS Free Usage Tier with SourceFuse

Here at SourceFuse, we pride ourselves in maximizing the power and minimizing the cost of cloud computing environments. A typical engagement with us can start with an “infrastructure audit” where we look at your current configurations and identify cost savings from the onset. Once we are fully engaged our ability to look downstream and anticipate changes and plan for optimizations is unparalleled.

Also, as an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we have the ability to access exclusive credits and promotions. If you are experiencing hiccups or getting 10-page bills from data centers written like a Ph.D. thesis. You may be a prime candidate to realize some immediate cost savings by migrating or optimizing your infrastructure. And realize the true power of the cloud provisioned by a team that knows what they are doing.