Select public data sets are hosted on AWS for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot Given that you'll need to pay for the EC2 volume and EC2 instance you'll have to c

Select public data sets are hosted on AWS for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot Given that you'll need to pay for the EC2 volume and EC2 instance you'll have to create in order to access the data, I wouldn't exactly call it free. It is nice for those who would have otherwise had to pay the transfer cost for uploading those datasets.