Published: September 16th, 2021
Here fishy, fishy. To entice developers to their platforms, cloud providers all offer free versions of a selection of their cloud services. The goal, of course, is to hook them with tasty functionality and keep them as paying customers for the long haul.
Free services from Oracle, Amazon, Azure, Google and others usually break down something like this: New customers can get a few hundred dollars of free credits to use full versions of cloud services until they burn through those credits. Existing customers can also get free short-term access to a smaller number of services to test and train on before deciding whether to buy.