This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- To distinguish between the three AWS Free Tier types: 12-Months Free, Always Free, and Trials.

- That the 12-Months Free tier for services like EC2 t2.micro starts from the moment of AWS account creation.

- To recognize that Always Free offers, such as the 1 million monthly AWS Lambda requests, do not expire.

- How short-term trials for services like Amazon SageMaker begin upon first usage, not account creation.

- To identify common exam traps that test your knowledge of which services expire versus which remain free indefinitely.

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