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Free trials are an essential for the reasons you describe - but it doesn’t mean it has to be free forever - just for long enough to make an honest evaluation. 3
by madaxe_again 5y ago
Free trials are an essential for the reasons you describe - but it doesn’t mean it has to be free forever - just for long enough to make an honest evaluation. 30 days is the norm, and that seems fair to me.
- Jenk 5y agoAWS (and generally all *aaS providers) free tier(s) are enough to experiment with, and get a feel for, but are limited enough that using them in any meaningful way is very difficult without incurring cost. Surely you can appreciate that "time" is not the only commodity that can be meaningfully (and reasonably) limited?
- thfuran 5y agoAre you under the impression that their contention is that avoiding free tiers is essential?
- ptman 5y agohttps://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/ https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/ - you can do quite a bit with some free tiers, and some don't have a time limit
- tedmiston 5y agoThat said, much (but not all) of the AWS "Free Tier" is really just a 12-month free trial. Only a small percentage of the offerings are truly longterm freemium. https://aws.amazon.com/free/ https://aws.amazon.com/free/