Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Freemium - What is always free in clouds platforms

Background

There are any different pricing model in the software industry which doesn't require any money to be spend to use software. Trial, totally free, freemium, sand boxed trial account etc...They are different in their own way. Totally free and freemium are the models which really help us build something based on the offering. Freemium might not be a new word for a follower of this blog. There were posts which has freemium reference such as Serverless monitoring, online diagramming tools, tool box for open source more precisely developers who don't want to invest on tools.

Once again Freemium is a model where we can use systems in free but for advanced usage we need to pay. Event if we don't want advanced features the basic features are free for ever. Refer wiki for the Freemium

Freemium cloud features

Lets see what is there from Cloud providers in freemium tier. ie what is there always free which can help us to develop production prototypes and start own company without investing any money other than domain if we want.

Please note that, these are not the free account or free trial which we cannot depend on to put something into production.

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits#container_name
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/free-account-faq/
https://firebase.google.com/pricing/
https://aws.amazon.com/free/?awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=categories%23alwaysfree
https://www.heroku.com/pricing

Since the cloud providers may add more services as freemium, only links are provided not another copy paste which needs more time to make it up to date.

Freemium doesn't necessarily guarantee that it its free for lifetime. The vendors have their rights to change the pricing.

More links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-computing_comparison
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3179785/cloud-computing/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-which-free-tier-is-best.html
https://www.redpixie.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud

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