Free is a huge liability, there is no contract, implicit or explicit. Free can go away, either by having the service disappear or being priced out of reach. Ha

Free is a huge liability, there is no contract, implicit or explicit. Free can go away, either by having the service disappear or being priced out of reach. Having TF scripts that can provision dev environments quickly and reliably is a more mature engineering approach than stitching together a bunch of free tier services. If one literally has no money and the free tier means the difference between doing a thing and not doing a thing, by all means, embrace the free tier. Otherwise it is a liability, esp if it is easy to exceed the limits of the free tier and having to handle uncontrolled charges.