Free Major Cloud Providers
Discover 7+ free major cloud providers tools and services for developers. All resources include generous free tiers or are fully open-source.
Google Cloud Platform
Always-free tier includes App Engine (28 frontend instance hrs/day), Cloud Firestore (1GB), Compute Engine (1 e2-micro), Cloud Functions (2M invocations/mo), Cloud Run (2M requests/mo), BigQuery (1TB queries/mo), and more.
Amazon Web Services
Free tier includes CloudFront (1TB egress/mo), Lambda (1M requests/mo), DynamoDB (25GB), EC2 (750 hrs t2/t3.micro), S3 (5GB), SES (3K messages/mo), and more.
Microsoft Azure
Free tier includes VMs (1 B1S Linux + Windows), App Service (10 apps), Functions (1M requests/mo), Cosmos DB (25GB), Static Web Apps, Azure DevOps (5 users), and more.
Oracle Cloud
Always-free includes 2 AMD VMs, 4 ARM Ampere A1 cores + 24GB RAM, 200GB block storage, 10GB object storage, 2 databases (20GB each), 10TB egress/mo.
IBM Cloud
Free tier includes Cloudant (1GB), Db2 (100MB), API Connect (50K calls/mo), Log Analysis (500MB daily).
Cloudflare
Free DNS, DDoS protection, CDN, SSL, Workers (100K daily requests), R2 (10GB/mo), D1 database, Pages hosting, and more.
Zoho
Suite of services with free plans: Email (5 users), Sprints, Docs, Projects, Connect, and more.
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