Compare 5 free alternatives to AWS for Cloud IaaS. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

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Best AWS Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

5 free alternatives in Cloud IaaS. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current AWS Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Cloud IaaS
Pricing Page: aws.amazon.com/free/

Recent Pricing Changes (7)

deprecated effective 2026-10-07 medium impact
AWS Proton reaches end of support on 2026-10-07, when its console and resources stop being accessible. AWS: "Your deployed CloudFormation stacks and the resources they manage will remain intact and continue to function." New customers could not sign up after 2025-10-07. Source ↗
deprecated effective 2026-09-30 medium impact
AWS App Mesh reached end of support on 2026-09-30. AWS: "After September 30, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS App Mesh console or AWS App Mesh resources." AWS points App Mesh users to Amazon ECS Service Connect. Source ↗
deprecated effective 2026-06-30 medium impact
Fargate platform version 1.3.0 reached end of support on June 30, 2026. AWS blocked new tasks and services on it from June 15 and said it would terminate the tasks still running on it on June 30. Platform version 1.4.0 replaces it. Source ↗
deprecated effective 2026-04-30 high impact
AWS App Runner closed to new customers. Service enters maintenance mode with no new features. AWS recommends migrating to Amazon ECS Express Mode for simplified container deployment. Source ↗
deprecated effective 2026-04-30 high impact
The Node.js 20 Lambda runtime (nodejs20.x) was deprecated on 2026-04-30. Lambda blocks creating nodejs20.x functions from 2027-07-29 and updating them from 2027-08-31; AWS's runtime page says "you can continue to invoke your functions indefinitely". Source ↗

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Read our detailed AWS App Runner Migration Guide: Alternatives with Free Tiers & Pricing (2026) guide with curated recommendations and service comparison.

Recommended Migration Targets

These alternatives were identified from AWS’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.

Pulumi stable recommended
Individual
Infrastructure as Code platform — free for individuals with 1 user, unlimited projects/stacks/updates, 500 deployment minutes/mo, 25 secrets, 10K secret API calls/mo
Infrastructure Read 2026-11-11 · confirmed 2026-09-09
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Render stable recommended
Hobby
Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-10-24 · confirmed 2026-10-02
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Railway stable recommended
Free
Free $0 per month. Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 of free credit per month.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
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🔗 $20 in Railway credits (disclosure)
Google Cloud Run recommended
Always Free
Always Free: 2M requests/month, 360K GB-seconds memory, 180K vCPU-seconds compute, 1 GB North America egress. Fully managed serverless containers.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-11-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
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Fly.io recommended
Legacy Free
Pay-as-you-go only — no free tier for new accounts (since Oct 2024). Legacy accounts (Hobby/Launch/Scale plans) retain: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256 MB RAM), 3 GB volume storage, 100 GB transfer/month.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
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not_a_free_offer Tier "Legacy Free" is a free tier closed to new accounts.

All Free Alternatives (5)

4 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 1 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Pulumi stable
Individual
Infrastructure as Code platform — free for individuals with 1 user, unlimited projects/stacks/updates, 500 deployment minutes/mo, 25 secrets, 10K secret API calls/mo
Infrastructure Read 2026-11-11 · confirmed 2026-09-09
Profile
Render stable
Hobby
Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-10-24 · confirmed 2026-10-02
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Railway stable
Free
Free $0 per month. Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 of free credit per month.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
Profile
🔗 $20 in Railway credits (disclosure)
Google Cloud Run
Always Free
Always Free: 2M requests/month, 360K GB-seconds memory, 180K vCPU-seconds compute, 1 GB North America egress. Fully managed serverless containers.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-11-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
Profile
Fly.io
Legacy Free
Pay-as-you-go only — no free tier for new accounts (since Oct 2024). Legacy accounts (Hobby/Launch/Scale plans) retain: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256 MB RAM), 3 GB volume storage, 100 GB transfer/month.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
Profile
not_a_free_offer Tier "Legacy Free" is a free tier closed to new accounts.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
alternative-to:AWS
seed
a56b31f616400961dfb55455934603706801fc6c1e8380e7a4733b2530179252
tie_count
4

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to AWS?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 5 free alternatives to AWS, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 4 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is AWS's free tier still available?
Yes, AWS currently offers a free tier (Free Tier). None of the 7 recorded changes narrowed the terms.
How many free alternatives to AWS exist?
There are 5 free alternatives to AWS tracked on AgentDeals across the Cloud IaaS, Cloud Hosting, Infrastructure categories.
Has AWS changed their pricing?
AWS has 7 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-10-07: AWS Proton reaches end of support on 2026-10-07, when its console and resources stop being accessible. AWS: "Your deployed CloudFormation stacks and the resources they manage will remain intact and continue to function." New customers could not sign up after 2025-10-07. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/proton/latest/userguide/proton-end-of-support.html