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Build Containers for Free on AWS

Free offers and services you need to run containers in the cloud

Benefits

Containers are a powerful way for developers to package and deploy their applications. They are lightweight and provide a consistent, portable software environment for applications to easily run and scale anywhere. 80% of all containers in the cloud run on AWS. Customers such as Samsung, Expedia, GoDaddy, and Snap choose to run their containers on AWS because of our security, reliability, and scalability.

Containers provide process isolation that makes it easy to break apart and run applications as independent components called microservices.

Containers make it easy to package entire applications and move them to the cloud without needing to make any code changes.

Use containers to build platforms that remove the need for developers to manage infrastructure and standardize how your applications are deployed and managed.

Free Product Offers

Build container solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Container Registry

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere.  

Use credits to access features in both Free and Paid plans, including:

Container orchestrator integration

OCI and Docker support

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere Hybrid Deployments

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere is a feature of Amazon ECS that enables you to easily run containers on customer-managed infrastructure, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers.

Use credits to access Amazon ECS Anywhere features in the Free and Paid plan.

Amazon Lightsail Virtual Private Server

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers you everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.

90-day free trial with the Paid plan. The trial includes:

Try the $5/mo, $7/mo, or $12/mo Linux/Unix plans with IPv4 address

Try the $9.50/mo, $14/mo, or $22/mo Windows plans with IPv4 address

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 750 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system.

Use credits to access Amazon EC2 features in both Free and Paid plans. Free plan eligible instances include: 

T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large, M7i-flex.large

Learn more about Containers

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS

Videos

Introduction to Amazon EC2 - Elastic Cloud Server & Hosting with AWS (4:00)

Introducing Amazon Lightsail (2:12)

Writing Task Definitions for Amazon ECS (5:43)

Amazon Lightsail Tutorial: Launch a Linux Instance (3:25)