> When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity.
Is it just me or is this just a cheap excuse to grab a payment method from unsuspecting free-tier users?
AWS services aren't designed for people just learning to program. Beanstalk and other services have billing limits you can set, but those aren't hard limits because they are measured async to keep performance up.
With that said, AWS is notoriously opaque in terms of "how much will I pay for this service" because they bill so many variable facets of things, and I've never really trusted the free tier myself unless I made sure it wasn't serving the public.
As does Lightsail…
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