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- Free allowance
- A browser shell with 1 GB of persistent storage per AWS Region, free with an AWS account
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | a browser shell with 1 GB of persistent storage per AWS Region, free with an AWS account unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes; no inbound SSH endpoint is published |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped idle sessions end; 1 GB of persistent storage per Region source
- request-rate no inbound SSH endpoint is published source
the persistent storage is per Region, so it is not one 1 GB directory |
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| Identity | card an AWS account requires a card even for the always-free services |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Retention | a session persists within the Region; idle sessions end |
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| Interface | unknown a browser terminal only; the AWS CLI is preconfigured |
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| Tooling | a shell with the AWS CLI, git and common runtimes |
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| Composes with | a shell that holds 1 GB per Region and cannot be reached from outside |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | A shell for driving the AWS CLI, with 1 GB per Region and no way in. It is a console feature rather than a host. |
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| Evidence note | reported re-read live on 2026-10-22 for the free-tier and limit figures |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 1 GB
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Evidence 4
More fields 6
| billing model | flat-pool |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "idle sessions end; interval not published"} |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "free with the account","source": "https://aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 1,"price_gib_month": "free","durability": "per Region","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "while the account exists"} |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "none","static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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Unknown values 4
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed