Free cloud resources to get hands-on cloud computing

Febin John James
Piece of Cake Labs
Published in
1 min readJan 18, 2017

AWS Free Tier

They provide you with free tier available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date. This is more than enough for you to run an instance for a month. They also provide you with Amazon RDS (Mysql DB) and Storage of (5GB) with their S3 service. Our book Cloud Is a Piece of Cake uses AWS free tier to teach hands-on cloud computing. You can download free chapters of the book here.

Google Cloud Platform

They give you $300 credit for 60 days. They have got really good videos to help you get started on their Google Developer Channel.

Microsoft’s Windows Azure

They give you $200 credit and a month to burn through it. They have got good documentation and a lot of templates to get you up and running soon.

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