The AWS free tier provides: "750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux/UNIX or RHEL† Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month" "†The following Linux variants are not eligible for the free usage tier as a software license is required: SuSe Linux Enterprise Server" http://aws.amazon.com/free/You should be able to run any EBS boot AMI on a t1.micro under the free tier.
If you run something through the AWS Marketplace, there may be additional charges.
-- Eric Hammond On 06/22/2013 01:04 PM, Eric Cooper wrote:
I'm new to using Amazon EC2, so sorry if this is a FAQ. Why are there a couple of Ubuntu Server images that qualify for the free plan, but no Debian ones? What would be required for there to be a free-as-in-beer Debian option?