How To Get A Free Cloud Server Forever?
Summary
TLDRThis video explores the availability of free virtual machines from popular cloud providers in 2024. It discusses the limitations and offerings of AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Google Cloud Platform, highlighting that Google Cloud Platform provides a free E2 micro virtual machine instance per month in select regions, making it a viable option for those looking to test virtual machines without incurring costs.
Takeaways
- 😀 The video discusses options for using virtual machines for free without needing a dedicated server or platforms like Proxmox.
- 🌐 It mentions the most common cloud providers, including IBM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Digital Ocean, Salesforce, Alibaba, and Oracle.
- 🆓 AWS offers a Free Tier with limited-time access to certain products and services, but does not provide free virtual machines without a time limit.
- 🗓️ Azure provides a 12-month free trial for Windows and Linux virtual machines, which is longer than AWS's offering.
- 🚫 Oracle Cloud claims to offer free virtual machines but the presenter was unable to sign up due to persistent errors and design preferences.
- 💳 Most cloud providers require a credit card for verification, even for free tiers, to avoid hidden expenses.
- 🌟 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stands out for offering a free virtual machine under its 'Always Free' tier with certain limitations.
- 🔢 GCP's free tier includes a non-preemptable E2 micro virtual machine instance per month in select regions, with specific storage and data transfer allowances.
- 📍 The regions available for GCP's free tier are limited, and users must select the correct region and instance specifications to qualify for the free tier.
- 🔄 The presenter demonstrates the process of signing up for GCP and creating a free virtual machine instance, emphasizing the need to adhere to the free tier requirements.
- 🔑 The video concludes by encouraging viewers to try out virtual machines and explore other suggestions from the presenter's other videos.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video script?
-The main topic of the video script is exploring the most popular cloud providers to find options for using virtual machines for free without time limitations.
What are the two most common cloud providers mentioned in the script?
-The two most common cloud providers mentioned are Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
What are the two types of free offerings typically found in cloud services?
-The two types of free offerings are a free trial, which is time-limited, and an 'always free' tier, which allows the use of certain services for free without time restrictions.
What is the AWS Free Tier's limitation regarding virtual machines?
-The AWS Free Tier does not offer free virtual machines without a time limit. It only provides 1 million free requests per month for AWS Lambda.
How long is the free trial for Azure's virtual machines?
-Azure offers a free trial for virtual machines that is limited to 12 months.
What issue did the speaker encounter when trying to sign up for Oracle Cloud?
-The speaker encountered a problem with Oracle Cloud's sign-up process, where they were unable to add a payment method despite trying multiple credit cards and receiving an error message about a request rate limit being reached.
What is the main advantage of Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) free tier for virtual machines?
-The main advantage of GCP's free tier is that it allows the use of one non-preemptable E2 micro virtual machine instance per month without charge, as long as certain usage limits are not exceeded.
What are the limitations of the free tier for Google Cloud Platform's compute engine?
-The limitations include using only one E2 micro instance per month in specific US regions, having only 30 GB of standard persistent disk, and having 1 GB of outbound data transfer from North America to all regions.
How can you maximize the use of GCP's free tier for virtual machines?
-You can maximize the use by having multiple instances, as long as the total combined time of these instances does not exceed one month.
What is required to sign up for Google Cloud Platform?
-To sign up for GCP, you need to provide personal details such as location, name, phone number, and a credit card for verification, even though you won't be charged if you stay within the free tier limits.
How does the speaker demonstrate the creation of a free virtual machine on GCP?
-The speaker demonstrates by logging into the GCP platform, enabling the compute API, selecting the correct specifications to match the free tier requirements, and creating an instance, which includes SSH access to the virtual machine.
Outlines
💻 Exploring Free Cloud Virtual Machines
This paragraph introduces the concept of exploring cloud providers to find free virtual machines. It mentions the lack of a dedicated server or Proxmox deployment, leading to the search for free options. Popular cloud providers like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Digital Ocean, Salesforce, Alibaba, Oracle, and IBM Cloud are considered. The focus is on finding options that offer free virtual machines without time limitations, starting with AWS, which offers free tier services but no free virtual machines.
🌐 AWS and Azure Free Tier Limitations
The paragraph delves into AWS's free tier, which offers limited resources like Lambda but not free virtual machines. Similarly, Azure provides free virtual machines for a limited time of 12 months. The different offerings and limitations of these two providers are highlighted, emphasizing the need to find a truly free, unlimited virtual machine option.
🔍 Oracle Cloud's Issues and Digital Ocean
This section discusses Oracle Cloud, which offers free virtual machines but presents significant signup issues, including rate limit errors and mandatory credit card requirements. It also briefly mentions Digital Ocean, which does not offer free virtual machines, before moving on to explore GCP's offerings.
☁️ Google Cloud Platform's Free Tier
The focus shifts to GCP, which provides a free tier with limitations. GCP offers an E2 micro instance per month within certain US regions, with constraints on storage and data transfer. The process of signing up, including the need for a Google account and adding a credit card, is described. Instructions on enabling compute services and creating a virtual machine that fits the free tier criteria are provided.
🔧 Setting Up a GCP Virtual Machine
This paragraph continues the detailed guide on setting up a free GCP virtual machine. It includes steps like selecting the correct machine type (E2 micro), adjusting storage to 30 GB of standard persistent disk, and ensuring network usage stays within the free limits. The process of creating and accessing the virtual machine through SSH is demonstrated, culminating in a functional free virtual machine setup.
🚀 Conclusion and Encouragement
The final paragraph wraps up the video, encouraging viewers to try out the free virtual machine options discussed. It highlights the ease of setup and the potential for exploring and testing various virtual machine configurations. The creator expresses hope that the viewers will find the guide helpful and invites them to watch other related videos for more tips and suggestions.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Virtual Machines
💡Cloud Providers
💡Free Tier
💡AWS Free Tier
💡Azure
💡Oracle Cloud
💡Digital Ocean
💡Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
💡Preemptible VMs
💡Outbound Data Transfer
💡SSH
Highlights
Exploring the possibility of using virtual machines for free without a dedicated server or platforms like Proxmox.
Introduction of the most popular cloud providers including IBM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, Salesforce, Alibaba, and Oracle.
Differentiation between free trials limited by time and 'always free' services with no time limit.
AWS Free Tier does not offer free virtual machines without a time limit, only providing Lambda resources.
Azure offers free virtual machines for 12 months, a longer period compared to AWS's 3 months.
Oracle Cloud claimed to offer free virtual machines but the presenter faced difficulties in signing up.
Oracle Cloud's requirement for a credit card even for free tier usage, which the presenter found off-putting.
Digital Ocean does not offer free virtual machines.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a free tier with a non-preemptable E2 micro virtual machine instance per month.
GCP's free tier limitations include specific regional availability and data transfer caps.
The free tier on GCP is time-limited, not instance-limited, allowing for multiple instances within a month's time limit.
Process of signing up for GCP and the necessity of providing payment information despite the free tier.
Enabling compute services on GCP before creating virtual machines.
Detailed steps to configure a free virtual machine on GCP, including region and disk type selection.
The importance of adhering to free tier specifications to avoid charges at the end of the month.
Demonstration of accessing the CLI for a free virtual machine on GCP through the browser.
Encouragement to explore and utilize free virtual machines for various activities.
Closing remarks and an invitation to watch more videos for additional suggestions and insights.
Transcripts
if you like playing around with the
virtual machines and testing all sort of
different stuff but you don't have your
dedicated server and you don't have a
proxmox or whatever else deployed
there's still an option in this video
we're going to go through the most
popular and known Cloud providers and we
are going to find the one which allows
you to use at least one or maybe even
couple of virtual machines absolutely
free at no cost forever what kind of
most common uh Cloud providers do we
have whenever someone talks about a
cloud we usually think a yes uh probably
Azure those would be the two most common
one and I really did a search today and
uh was trying to look like let's say we
have uh uh top five Cloud providers in
2024 which uh as you can see already
clicked on the IBM Microsoft Azure
Amazon web services so AWS gcp digital
ocean Salesforce Alibaba Oracle and IBM
cloud and and much more but which of
them actually gives us the chance to
have a free virtual machines without a
limitation starting with the what do we
have AWS there we have AWS free tier
which has gain free hands-on experience
with aw's products and services and you
must understand that each cloud provider
basically can divide in uh two different
parts like they do offer a free trial
which is is limited to the time period
and during the free trial most of the
cloud providers do have a free virtual
machines and many other services but
mostly that's only for 3 months and all
of the cloud providers also have such
thing as always free so you can stay on
the free tier pay no money and use the
offered Services Forever at no cost but
of course you must be careful to not
have any hidden expenses uh under that
so if we check a AWS we definitely need
to need to look on the always free and
here is the list of all the resources
and services that are available for free
but we are interesting for compute and
by clicking on a compute we can see that
we don't have virtual machines so for
AWS we get only Lambda resources 1
million free requests per month and
that's it so in AWS you are not able to
get a free virtual machines without a
time limit
let's close this second one the most
popular second most popular whatever
Azure again same story you can have um
you can have the limited trial which is
for some month or you can have 55 plus
other services that are always free so
no matter the time period you can sign
up 3 months 6 months one year those
resources will be free and here
unfortunately right away we can see that
windows and Linux virtual machines are
free but they are limited for 12 months
each and 12 months is not bad it's much
better than 3 months in AWS and uh well
it's one year and you can use the
virtual machine of the windows and Linux
70/50 hours each of B1 B2 pts V2 Arm
based and B2 ATS V2 AMD based burstable
virtual machines for all sort of
different activi that you might have
then the one that I really wanted to try
because in one of my uh previous videos
someone uh commented that Oracle cloud
is the best because it offers like a
free virtual machine without any problem
it just works and and no hustle at all
and I really tried it and as you can see
it's always free compute AMD computer
instances and Aram computer instances um
A1 course 24 gigs of memory usable as
one virtual machine or up to four
virtual machines 3,000 uh ocpu hours and
880,000 GB hours per month it's
fantastic but the problem is I was not
even able to sign up like that's one
thing I was not able to sign up and
second thing let me be honest with you
the visual design of Oracle Cloud page
is not
very pretty in my opinion I didn't like
it from the scratch and of course Oracle
Oracle people might love or hate Oracle
but I wanted to give it a try and I
really couldn't I tried to sign up and
every time when you need it is required
to enter the credit card to uh you need
to add a payment if even if you're
staying as a free tier user and don't
plan to pay anything you still have to
add a credit card it's not going to be
built you're not going to be charged for
anything but you must do that and I
couldn't I tried multiple credit cards
and refreshing and it's all always uh
throws an error message that
uh uh request rate limit reached and try
refreshing the page or reach out to the
support I tried to refresh it and
nothing has changed uh in in multiple
minutes and the most frustrating part
that that I did Google the error message
and uh Oracle cloud and Reddit and
whatever and I found art articles that
are one year 2 year old and that are
complaining about the same problem that
they cannot sign for that were Cloud
because the same error message rate
limit exceeded so I did not spend much
more time and we canceled this one also
there was digital ocean digital ocean
doesn't offer the free virtual machines
and then we found a good one um I
actually never use this but uh and here
we can find the compute age engine
scalable high performance virtual
machines one E2 micro instance per month
which is not actually true let's click
here let's go into more details and here
we can find the compute engine this is
located under the free tier usage limits
free tier resources are available for
the gcp services listed in the following
tables subject to the listed limitations
for information about a Google map
platform see the pricing page so the one
above somewhere here is see the trial
90day 90 days $300 that you can use no
question about that but this one free
tier is free
forever but of course we have a
limitation for the compute engines we
can use n one non preemptable E2 micro
virtual uh machine instance per month in
one of the following us regions here we
have limitation on the regions we have
only 30 GB of the standard persistent
dis and keep this in mind I will show
this why this is important later and 1
gbyte of outbound outbound data transfer
from nor North America to All Region
destination which means that you have
only one gig of the free data transfer
if you will have more you will have to
pay for that even if the virtual machine
is uh um free and very interesting thing
is that your free tier E2 micro instance
limit is by time not by the instance so
you are not limited to have one free
virtual machine you can have two free
virtual machines if each of them uh will
be not used more than 2 weeks so total
combined time of these virtual machines
that match these specs should not exceed
1 month and uh how can you use that very
simple you need to go to the gcp and uh
it's 100% tie to your um Gmail account
not a Gmail Google account right and I
already signed up today but uh basically
if you are trying to sign up yourself um
let me try to do it like this I will
open another
account um let's do this
one there we go we need to try for free
then you will be required to fill in uh
application for uh the payment and of
course all the private details like your
location name last name phone number for
the ver verification City postal code
and stuff like that you are also
required to add a credit card but you
will not be charged and thing it's z0
and it's also possible to add like
single use credit card or any any well
you don't need to have a balance on it
I've added uh an empty single use credit
card just for the verification and it
works fine so then you can log in to the
gcp platform as such you can click here
and find the compute engines and the VM
instances when you first time go here
you will have you will not have the big
blue button with the create instance you
will have a big blue button with
something like enable uh compute API you
need to click that wait for at least a
minute it will enable all the compute
services on your gcp which will allow
you to create the virtual machines so
then you can click create an instance
and it's very important we need to have
handy uh the list of uh all the
requirements for the free tier and
remember us West one as example so Us
West one Oregon and the Zone doesn't
matter but pay attention that all of the
default values they're not matching the
requirements for the free tier so Us
West one 30 gigs standard persistent
discs um first of all it's E2 micro
right E2 micro as we can see it here E2
micro then 30 gigs uh of the standard
persistent dis that also we need to
change uh which is uh which is here
under the boot dis always struggle to
find it so we need to click change and
you can choose the operating system
whatever you want it can be deban sent
toon to whatever version boot dis type
from balanced persistent disc we need to
change to the standard persistent disc
as our requirements and we can change
the size to 30 gabt click select and uh
that's about it that's the only thing
that you have to do to have a free
virtual machine despite the fact that
your monthly estimate is $7 that is if
you are well it actually doesn't count
it as a free tier but whenever the end
of the month comes if you fit in these
requirements and you don't exceed um
Network requirements 1 GB of outbound uh
data transfer from na then you will not
be charged at anything so now you can
click create um it will take couple of
minutes probably to spin it up let's
wait for a minute and there we go the
virtual machine is up and running as you
can see the instance name the status is
running the zone is Us West 1B internal
IP external IP and if you don't believe
that it's running you can click on the
SSH it will take a couple of seconds and
you will see your SSH terminal here in
the browser and for the authentification
it is using the keys and also your
Google account there's going to be a
prompt for to authorize to your SSH so
allow yes click okay it will take one
moment establishing connection to the
SSH server and there we go we have uh
our CLI for our free virtual machine
which took us only a couple of minutes
so this is how you can get a free
virtual machines and uh I hope that this
helps I hope that you will try it out
and play around with virtual machines
and try all the other stuff that I try
to suggest you in the other videos so
thank you for watching see you later
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