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Free Hosting

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Service Type RAM Storage Limitations
AWS EC2 IaaS 1 GB ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Azure App Service PaaS 1 GB 1 GB ⚠️ 60 CPU minutes/day
Azure VM IaaS 1 GB 2 GB (non-persistent) ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Google App Engine PaaS 128 MB 1 GB Standard Environment only
Limited to Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby; 1 GB/day outbound traffic
Google Compute Engine IaaS 0.6 GB 30 GB 1 GB/month outbound traffic (not including China or Australia). ⚠️ After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku PaaS 512 MB Non-persistent Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, limited to 550 hours/month
IBM Cloud Foundry PaaS 256 MB ⚠️ Sleep after 10 days, deleted after 30 days of no "development activity"
OpenShift Online v3 PaaS 2 GB 2 GB ⚠️ Free subscriptions expire after 60 days (can resubscribe for free but not extend subscription)
Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, hibernates 18 out of 72 hours

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Service Type Limitations
Amazon DynamoDB Proprietary NoSQL 25 GB of storage
Amazon RDS Proprietary RDBMS ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Azure SQL Database MS SQL Server ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Clever Cloud PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis 256 MB of storage (PostgreSQL)
Max 5 connections (PostgreSQL)
ElephantSQL PostgreSQL 20 MB of storage
Google Cloud Firestore Proprietary NoSQL 1 GB storage
⚠️ After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku Postgres PostgreSQL 10K max rows
IBM Cloud Cloudant Proprietary NoSQL 1 GB of storage
deleted after 30 days of no activity
IBM Cloud Db2 Db2 200 MB of storage
MongoDB Atlas MongoDB 512 MB of storage
OpenShift Online v3 MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis ⚠️ Free subscriptions expire after 60 days (can resubscribe for free but not extend subscription)
2 GB of persistent storage
Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, hibernates 18 out of 72 hours
Redis Enterprise Redis 30 MB of storage
Scalingo PostgreSQL 128 MB of storage
Max 10 connections
⚠️ Payment method required after 30 day trial
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