Using free tiers on the cloud

Mike's Notes

A job starting in the next few months. I'm gathering information for now.

Resources

• https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison
• https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Free-Hosting

References

• Reference

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Last Updated

12/10/2025

Using free tiers on the cloud

By: Mike Peters

On a Sandy Beach: 05/10/2025

Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.

I need to learn how to work with multiple cloud platforms. Many offer a generous free tier for learning and production. Initially, I thought I would do all the available training and just build things.

Then move part of the Ajabbi/Pipi infrastructure to all of these platforms, staying within the free-tier limits.

This means being able to use MSSQL, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, etc. And being familiar and confident with multiple languages like .NET, PHP, Java, Python, Go, etc

VMs, Kubernetes, Docker, et al.

This is preparation for when paying customers decide to use Pipi as part of their enterprise SaaS, on their platform of choice. At least I will be ready.

Known available free tiers (more to come)

• Alibaba Cloud
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloudflare
• Container Hosting Service
• DigitalOcean
• Google Cloud
• Hetzner Cloud
• IBM Cloud
• JFrog
• Linode
• Netlify
• OpenShift
• Oracle Cloud
• OVHcloud
• Render
• Salesforce
• Tencent Cloud
• Vercel
• Wasabi
• Zeabur