Is AWS Amplify free? The free tier, credits, and hosting costs

No, not beyond AWS's credits: AWS's Amplify pricing page, read on November 5, 2026, says “Starting July 15, 2025, new AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including AWS Amplify.”

Those credits are the free part. AWS's Free Tier page lists AWS Amplify Hosting as “Available on both plans” and says to “Use credits to access AWS Amplify Hosting features in both Free and Paid plans,” and Amplify isn't among the services it calls always free. A new account gets $100 in credits at sign-up and can earn up to $100 more. On the Free plan, AWS bills nothing, and “The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first.” On a Paid plan, once the credits are spent, Amplify Hosting costs $0.01 per build minute, $0.023 per GB stored a month, and $0.15 per GB served.

The “free for 12 months” that older tutorials and AI answers quote is AWS's legacy Free Tier. AWS's post of July 15, 2025 says “If your AWS account was created before July 15, 2025, you'll continue to be in the legacy Free Tier program,” and AWS's legacy terms make its 12-month offers “available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date.” By this page's arithmetic, those 12 months had run out for every such account by July 2026.

As of November 5, 2026, 17:24 to 17:35 JST (08:24 to 08:35 UTC). AWS's pricing, Free Tier, and FAQ pages and its docs show no date of their own, so each fact from them is from the version read that day. The AWS Free Tier Terms were last updated July 9, 2025, and AWS's 2 announcements are dated July 15, 2025 and September 16, 2026. Prices are AWS's, in US dollars. AWS can change them, so check its pages before you deploy.

This page covers Amplify Hosting on new and older AWS accounts: what changed in 2025, Amplify's prices, what a small site costs, how to keep a bill from surprising you, and free hosts to compare. Is Netlify free?, Cloudflare Pages limits, and Is Firebase Hosting free? answer the same question for those hosts.

The short answer

• On a new account, since July 15, 2025: Amplify Hosting runs on AWS's Free Tier credits, $100 at sign-up and up to $100 more for activities in the console. On the Free plan you aren't billed, and the plan ends after 6 months or when the credits run out, whichever comes first.
• Amplify's own free allowance: none on a new account. Amplify's pricing page still shows allowances “Free for 12 months,” the kind of offer AWS kept only for accounts created before July 15, 2025.
• On an account from before July 15, 2025: the legacy Free Tier's 12-month offers ran for 12 months from sign-up, so by this page's arithmetic none is left. Its always-free offers continue.
• Past the credits: $0.01 per build minute, $0.023 per GB stored a month, $0.15 per GB served, and for server-side rendering $0.30 per million requests and $0.20 per GB-hour.
• A small static site: about $1.18 a month at 5,000 page views, by this page's arithmetic from those prices.
• A card: not needed to sign up “for most new customers,” per AWS's FAQ. A Paid plan needs one.

What changed on July 15, 2025, and what older accounts keep

AWS replaced the 12-month free tier for new accounts with credits and a choice of 2 plans. Here is each kind of account, in AWS's words:

Only a new customer gets the credits: “You would be ineligible for the Free plan or Free Tier credits if you have an existing AWS account or have previously had one,” per AWS's FAQ. The second $100 comes from activities in the console. AWS's July 2025 post named 5, at $20 each: launching an Amazon EC2 instance and an Amazon RDS database, building an AWS Lambda function, sending a prompt in Amazon Bedrock, and setting a budget in AWS Budgets. None of the 5 is Amplify. AWS says it is “gradually rolling” the new sign-up out to new customers, so a new account may come through either sign-up.

AWS's pages disagree on when unused credits expire after you upgrade. The Free Tier Terms, last updated July 9, 2025, say “Free Tier Credits expire twelve months from the date you opened your account,” and Amplify's pricing page says “All Free Tier credits must be used within 12 months of your account creation date.” In AWS's FAQ, 2 answers say 12 months, and 2 others, both written for AWS's new sign-up (one points you to its Settings Portal, the other is about its advanced features), say 6. On the Free plan it makes no difference, since the plan itself ends at 6 months. On a Paid plan, check the expiration date AWS shows for your credits.

Amplify Hosting's free allowances and prices

Amplify's pricing page has 2 columns: “with AWS Free Tier,” whose allowances are “Free for 12 months,” and “without AWS Free Tier,” which is “Pay for what you use.” It doesn't say which accounts the first column is for. Allowances for 12 months are the kind of offer AWS kept only for accounts opened before July 15, 2025; for a newer account, AWS's Free Tier page lists Amplify Hosting as a service you use with credits.

Teammates cost nothing extra: “Always free - no pay-per-seat pricing.” The price “Includes multiple sites per project and public SSL certificates at no additional cost.” A backend you add through Amplify, such as Amazon Cognito for sign-in or AWS Lambda for functions, bills at each of those services' own prices. AWS's own examples on the page: an app with 300 daily active users and 600 build minutes a month comes to $8.08 a month, and an app with 10,000 daily active users comes to $65.98, almost all of it data transfer.

What a small static site costs after free use ends

This is this page's arithmetic from Amplify's prices above, by the method of AWS's own examples on its pricing page, for a Paid plan account whose credits are spent. The site: 10 MB of files, deployed 4 times a month with 2-minute builds, and 1.5 MB transferred per page view, the page size AWS's examples use.

Transfer is the line that grows with visitors: each 5,000 more page views of 1.5 MB adds about $1.10. A custom domain whose DNS is on Route 53 adds $0.50 a month for the hosted zone, plus the domain's yearly fee. On AWS's Free plan, the smaller site would use about $7.08 of credits in 6 months, by the same arithmetic, so the 6-month limit ends it long before the first $100 runs out.

Case by case: what AWS gives you for free

The table applies AWS's Free Tier page, FAQ, and terms, its Billing and Account Management docs, Amplify's pricing page and docs, and Route 53's pricing page, as read on November 5, 2026, to what people ask before they host a site on Amplify. A row reads Yes where AWS's pages allow it, No where they rule it out or put a price on it, and “AWS doesn't say” where they don't settle the case.

Billing surprises, and how to cap a bill

On the Free plan there's no bill to fear: “You won't be charged unless you convert to a Paid plan.” AWS's July 2025 post says it emails you when 50, 25, and 10 percent of your credits remain, and when 15, 7, and 2 days are left in the 6 months. The risk runs the other way. When the plan ends, “AWS suspends your account and any associated projects,” keeps your data for 90 days, and then “will permanently erase your AWS account and all its content,” per AWS's FAQ. Upgrading is one way: “No, you cannot downgrade your Paid plan to the Free plan.”

On a Paid plan, AWS bills what runs. Its alerts send a message, by email or to an Amazon SNS topic, and for an Amplify site only a spend limit stops the bill:

• AWS Budgets alerts can come after the charge. AWS Budgets sends its notifications “to an Amazon SNS topic, to an email address, or to both,” and AWS's Budgets docs say “AWS Budgets information is updated up to three times a day. Updates typically occur 8–12 hours after the previous update,” and “You might incur additional costs or usage that exceed your budget notification threshold before AWS Budgets can notify you.” Its zero spend budget template is “A budget that notifies you after your spending exceeds AWS Free Tier limits.”
• AWS's Free Tier usage alerts don't list Amplify. AWS emails you “when you exceed 85 percent of your Free Tier limit for each service,” but Amplify isn't among the services AWS's usage tracking docs list as trackable.
• A spend limit stops the bill, on AWS's new sign-up only. On a Paid plan opened through Sign up for AWS (new), AWS lets you set a monthly limit per project, at least “the greater of $20 or a conservative estimate of your likely spend.” AWS notifies you at 50, 75, and 90 percent, and at the limit “AWS pauses your project and stops all resources. Your data is preserved.” “Spend limits exclude credits and apply to pre-tax charges,” and AWS deletes the data of a project left paused for 90 days, per its spend limit docs. Sign up for AWS (advanced) accounts can't create one.
• Old builds keep billing. Amplify's storage charge “recurs until the app is deleted,” so delete an Amplify app you no longer serve.

Custom domains on Amplify, and what they cost

Amplify connects your own domain to a site. Its custom domain docs say “you can use the default managed certificate that Amplify provisions for you,” and Amplify's pricing includes “public SSL certificates at no additional cost.” The domain itself you buy “through an accredited domain registrar such as Amazon Route 53 or GoDaddy.”

On Route 53, per its pricing page:

• The domain: “Pricing for domain names varies by TLD,” and “Domain names are registered in annual increments.” AWS's credits can't pay for it: “You may not use Promotional Credit for any fees or charges for Route 53 domain name registration,” and AWS's terms make the Free Tier credits promotional credits.
• The DNS: a Route 53 hosted zone costs “$0.50 per hosted zone per month for the first 25 hosted zones,” not prorated for partial months, plus DNS queries. One “deleted within 12 hours of creation is not charged.” Unlike a domain, the hosted zone can be paid from your credits while they last: Route 53's card on AWS's Free Tier page says “Use your credits to evaluate beyond these monthly limits.”
• A domain from elsewhere: Amplify's docs also cover a domain managed by another DNS provider, with pages for GoDaddy and Cloudflare, so a domain you already have needs no Route 53 hosted zone.

Do you need a credit card for AWS?

Not to sign up, for most new customers. AWS's FAQ says “A payment method isn't required to sign up for most new customers. In some cases, we may request additional information, such as a payment method, to verify your identity.” The new sign-up's docs add that when AWS asks, “Our verification process holds USD $1 (or equivalent) for 3-5 days.” AWS's guide to Sign up for AWS (advanced) still says “You can't proceed with the sign-up process until you add a valid payment method.” A Paid plan needs a card either way: AWS's September 2026 post says you upgrade “by entering your payment method.”

When you only need a page

If what you'd put on Amplify is a landing page, a portfolio, a sign-up form, or one HTML file a person or an AI wrote, Amplify still meters it like an app: build minutes, GB stored, and GB served, from credits for up to 6 months and then at its prices.

Convika hosts that kind of page, and not an app backend or a build pipeline. It takes one .html or .htm file of up to 2 MB, or pasted code, and puts it on your subdomain.

• A form that keeps the entries. Click Add a form to my page, and Convika adds a form that stores each entry, emails it to you, and exports to CSV. Free shows 50 entries a month and keeps later ones for Pro.
• Visitor stats on Free. You get 90 days of visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks.
• No build to meter. Convika serves each published page from storage on every request, so there are no build minutes, and no 6-month clock ends the Free plan.
• No card. The Free plan doesn't ask for one, and commercial use is allowed on every plan, per section 7 of the terms.

Free includes 1 published page and 10,000 page views a month, with a small Convika bar at the bottom, and you can connect 1 custom subdomain, such as www. Once your pages reach 10,000 page views in a month, editing and analytics pause, and 7 days later the pages stop until the month ends or you upgrade.

Where Amplify fits better: a React, Vue, or Next.js app with builds, branch deployments, server-side rendering, or an AWS backend such as Amazon Cognito, AWS AppSync, Amazon DynamoDB, or AWS Lambda. Convika doesn't build apps or run server code, so those stay on Amplify or another host. For an app on a free plan, Is Render free for production?, Vercel Hobby limits, and Is Heroku free? go through those hosts.

Drop the .html file right below or paste its code to see your page on Convika before signing up. You get a private preview link that works for 3 minutes, with the page's scripts and forms off until you keep it with a free account. The same box is on the free HTML publishing tool.

Free alternatives to AWS Amplify, compared

The other hosts' rows come from their pages on convika.com, whose sources were read between October 23 and November 5, 2026. Follow each link for the quotes and the sources.

Free hosting for a business site sets 4 hosts' terms side by side, Can you use Vercel Hobby for a business? goes through Vercel's rule, and free HTML hosting compared covers 11 hosts for one HTML file.

Frequently asked questions

Is AWS Amplify free?

No, not beyond AWS's Free Tier credits. Since July 15, 2025, a new AWS account gets $100 in credits at sign-up and up to $100 more, which pay for Amplify Hosting and other services. On the Free plan you aren't billed, and the plan ends after 6 months or when the credits run out. After that, Amplify Hosting costs $0.15 per GB served and $0.01 per build minute.

Does AWS Amplify have a free tier?

No, not of its own on a new account. AWS's Free Tier page lists Amplify Hosting as a service you use with credits on both plans, not as an always-free service. Amplify's pricing page still shows a 12-month allowance of 1,000 build minutes, 5 GB stored, and 15 GB served a month, the kind of offer AWS kept for accounts opened before July 15, 2025.

What are the AWS Amplify free tier limits?

On a new AWS account, Amplify has no free allowance of its own: it runs on up to $200 of Free Tier credits, for up to 6 months on the Free plan. AWS's Billing docs say a “Free account plan only have Always Free offerings active,” and AWS doesn't list Amplify Hosting as always free. The 12-month column of Amplify's pricing page, the legacy kind of offer, lists 1,000 build minutes a month on the standard build instance, 5 GB stored, 15 GB served, 500,000 server-side rendering requests, and 100 GB-hours of request duration.

Is AWS Amplify free for 12 months?

No, not any more. The 12-month offers belong to AWS's legacy Free Tier, for accounts created before July 15, 2025, and each ran 12 months from sign-up, so by this page's arithmetic the last ended by July 2026. A newer account gets credits for up to 6 months on the Free plan.

How much does AWS Amplify cost for a small website?

About $1.18 a month for a 10 MB static site with 5,000 page views a month, by this page's arithmetic from Amplify's prices, almost all of it the $0.15 per GB served. At 50,000 page views a month it comes to about $11.07. A Route 53 hosted zone adds $0.50 a month, and a domain its yearly fee.

Do I need a credit card for the AWS Free Tier?

No, for most new customers, per AWS's FAQ, though AWS may ask for a payment method to verify your identity. AWS's guide to Sign up for AWS (advanced) still asks for a valid payment method before you can finish, and a Paid plan needs one.

What happens when the AWS Free plan ends?

AWS closes the account. Its FAQ says “AWS suspends your account and any associated projects, and you will lose access to your resources and data,” keeps the data for 90 days while you can still upgrade to a Paid plan, and then erases the account. On AWS's Free plan you pay nothing, and you can't extend it past 6 months.

Can I set a spending limit on AWS?

Yes, on a Paid plan opened through AWS's new sign-up: a monthly spend limit per project, from $20, that pauses the project when it's reached. Accounts from Sign up for AWS (advanced) can't create one. There, AWS Budgets sends alerts, which can arrive after the charges, since its data updates up to 3 times a day.

Does AWS Amplify support Next.js?

Yes, for the versions AWS names. Amplify's docs say its Hosting compute “fully manages server-side rendering (SSR) for apps built with Next.js versions 12 through 15,” and they name no later version. Server-side rendering bills $0.30 per million requests and $0.20 per GB-hour past free use, on top of builds, storage, and data served.

Sources

Each source was read on November 5, 2026, between 17:24 and 17:35 JST (08:24 and 08:35 UTC). Dates in parentheses are the document's own.

• AWS Amplify pricing (no date on the page; read 17:24)
• AWS Free Tier (no date on the page; read 17:24, its offers again 17:27 and 17:34) and AWS Free Tier FAQs (no date on the page; read 17:24)
• AWS Free Tier Terms (last updated July 9, 2025; the Legacy Free Tier Terms on the same page, last updated August 14, 2018; read 17:26)
• AWS News Blog: AWS Free Tier update (July 15, 2025; read 17:30) and What's New: AWS Free Tier now offers $200 in credits and 6-month free plan (July 16, 2025; read 17:30)
• AWS News Blog: AWS reimagines the getting started experience (September 16, 2026; read 17:30) and What's New: New AWS experience helps builders get started and ship faster (September 16, 2026; read 17:30)
• AWS Billing docs: Explore AWS services with AWS Free Tier, Choosing a plan, Tracking your AWS Free Tier usage, and Avoiding unexpected charges after Free Tier (no date on the pages; read 17:25)
• AWS Cost Management docs: Managing your costs with AWS Budgets and Using a budget template (no date on the pages; read 17:30)
• AWS Account Management docs: Compare sign-up options, Supported AWS services for Sign up for AWS (new), Create a spend limit, Sign up for AWS (new), and Free Tier in our new AWS experience (no date on the pages; read 17:30), and Sign up for AWS (advanced) (no date on the page; read 17:31)
• Amplify Hosting docs: Connecting a custom domain and Amplify support for Next.js (no date on the pages; read 17:30)
• Amazon Route 53 pricing (no date on the page; read 17:24)