Overview
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an industry-leading object storage service known for its scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Millions of customers across various industries use S3 to store, manage, analyze, and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case — including data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. With cost-effective storage classes and easy-to-use management features, you can optimize costs, organize and analyze data, and configure fine-grained access controls to meet specific business and compliance requirements.
The AWS S3 Free Tier includes a 12-month trial period, offering 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage in the Standard storage class, 20,000 GET requests, 2,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests, and 100 GB of data transfer out each month. If you're not already an AWS user, you can sign up for an account and gain access to over 100 free cloud services, including 12 months of basic S3 object storage. This is more than enough for everyday business needs, such as storing image attachments for an e-commerce website separately from the application server.
AWS Free Tier Account Registration: Apply here
The application process is simple — all you need is a phone number, email address, and a UnionPay or credit card for verification. AWS does not restrict registrations from users in China. Once your account is set up, you'll not only get 12 months of free S3 storage, but also 12 months of free EC2 cloud server basic tier, along with several other free cloud products to explore.
