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Try an ECS free trial and enjoy up to a 60% discount on new purchases, renewals, and upgrades

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ECS t5 Instance

2C2G 3 Months

Burstable instance ecs.t5-c1m1.large instance, using 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® processors.

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Follow up benefits after freetrial:

60% discount

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Instance: ecs.t5-c1m1.large（2vcpu2G）

User type: New registered user

Receive and Renewal quantity: 1 instance

System disk: 40GB

Bandwidth：1Mbps

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ECS c5 Instance

2C4G 3 Months

Compute-optimized type c5 uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.

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60% discounton the first year renewal

Instance: ecs.c5.large（2vcpu4G ）

User Type: New registered user

Quantity: 1 instance

System disk: 40GB

Bandwidth: 1Mbps

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ECS c6 Instance

2C4G 3 Months

Compute-optimized instance ecs.c6.large using Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors.

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40% discounton the first year renewal

Instance： ecs.c6.large（2vcpu4G）

User Type：Real-name registered enterprises

Quantity：2 instances

System disk：100GB

Bandwidth：5Mbps

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ECS t5 Instance

1C1G 1 Year

Suitable for building and testing small-sized websites.

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60% discounton the first year renewal

Instance：ecs.t5-lc1m1.small（1vcpu1G ）

User Type: New registered user

Quantity: 1 instance

System disk：40GB

Bandwidth：1Mbps

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ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL

2C4G 1 Month

High security level, more stable, 5x performance improvement.

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Instance：MySQL 5.7/8.0 mysql.n2.medium.xc

User type：The first purchase users

Quantity：1 instance

Convert to paid plan: RDS Serverless 50% off

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PolarDB

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2C8G PolarDB instance by claiming for each month, compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle.

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User type: The first purchase users (Free for each month)

Storage：50GB

Option: 2C8G General-Purpose, PolarDB for MySQL/Dedicated

PolarDB for PostgreSQL/Dedicated PolarDB for Oracle

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WordPress on LAMP CentOS 7.4 Lite

$0/hour

WordPress is one of the most popular web publishing platforms for building blogs and websites.

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User type: New registered user

Quantity: 1 instance

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New Free Trial Available: Palo Alto NetworksEnterprises can try Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewalls, ​which efficiently protect and secure east-west and north-south traffic in Alibaba Cloud environment, from $0/hour here.

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ECS t5 Instance

2C2G 3 Months

Burstable instance ecs.t5-c1m1.large instance, using 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® processors.

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Instance ecs.t5-c1m1.large（2vcpu2G）

User typeNew registered user

Quantity1 instance

System disk 40GB

Bandwidth1Mbps

Follow_up benefits after free trial:

 60% off for the first year renewal

 40% off for the first month renewal

 60% off for the purchase of another t5, t6, c5, c6, g5, or g6 instance with the specified configuration with one year

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ECS c6 Instance

2C4G 3 Months

Compute-optimized instance ecs.c6.large using Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors.

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Instance ecs.c6.large（2vcpu4G）

User TypeNew registered enterprises

Quantity2 instances

System disk 100GB

Bandwidth5Mbps

Follow_up benefits after free trial:

 40% off for the first year renewal

 20% off for the first month renewal

 60% off for the purchase of another t5, t6, c5, c6, g5, or g6 instance with the specified configuration with one year

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ECS c5 Instance

2C4G 3 Months

Compute-optimized type c5 uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.

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Instance ecs.c5.large（2vcpu4G ）

User typeNew registered user

Quantity1 instance

System disk 40GB

Bandwidth1Mbps

Follow_up benefits after free trial:

 60% off for the first year renewal

 40% off for the first month renewal

 60% off for the purchase of another t5, t6, c5, c6, g5, or g6 instance with the specified configuration with one year

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ECS t5 Instance

1C1G 1 Year

Suitable for building and testing small-sized websites.

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Instance ecs.t5-lc1m1.small（1vcpu1G）

User TypeNew registered user

Quantity1 instance

System disk 40GB

Bandwidth1Mbps

Follow_up benefits after free trial:

 60% off for the first year renewal

 40% off for the first month renewal

 60% off for the purchase of another t5, t6, c5, c6, g5, or g6 instance with the specified configuration with one year

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ECS c7 Instance

2C4G 3 Months

Compute Optimized Type c7 uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors.

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Instance ecs.c7.large（2vcpu4G ）

User typeReal-name registered enterprises

Quantity2 instances

System disk 100GB

Bandwidth5Mbps

Follow_up benefits after free trial:

 40% off for the first year renewal

 20% off for the first month renewal

 40% off for the purchase of another 7th. Gen ECS instance with the specified configuration with one year

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ECS g7 Instance

4C16G 1 Month

General Purpose Type g7 uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors.

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Instance ecs.g7.xlarge（4vcpu16G ）

User typeReal-name registered enterprises

Quantity1 instance

System disk 100GB

Bandwidth5Mbps

Follow_up benefits after free trial:

 40% off for the first year renewal

 20% off for the first month renewal

 40% off for the purchase of another 7th. Gen ECS instance with the specified configuration with one year

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Cloud Firewall (PAYG Saving Plan)

$50 Free Plan 3 Months

Cloud Firewall PAYG Saving Plan protects your internet assets such as SLBs, EIPs, and ECS public IPs againt network attacks at lower cost.

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User typeNew registered user

Spec50 USD PAYG Saving Plan free trial within 3 months

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Secure DCDN Plan

1 Month（save up to $499）

Get FREE Edge WAF, DDoS protection and 1TB traffic now.

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User typeNew registered user

Data Transfer Plan Size1TB

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PolarDB

2C8G Always Free

PolarDB provides the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases and the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases.

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Options2C8G General-Purpose, PolarDB for MySQL/Dedicated

PolarDB for PostgreSQL/Dedicated PolarDB for Oracle

User typeThe first purchase users

50GB Storage

Only one PolarDB instance is allowed to claim.

Free for each month

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ECS t5 Instance 2C2G

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3 months free of burstable instance ecs.t5-c1m1.large instance using 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® processors, DDR4 memory

PolarDB

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Provides one 2C8G PolarDB instance for free by claiming each month; compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle

Alibaba Cloud DNS

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A secure, fast, stable, and reliable authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) service. Alibaba Cloud DNS helps users convert human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses.

Security Center - Basic Edition

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Detect risks for free, including unusual logons to your servers, DDoS attacks, common vulnerabilities on your servers, and configuration risks of Alibaba Cloud services

OSS Standard (LRS) Storage Plan

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500GB free for static website hosting and uses the endpoint of the bucket to access the website

CDN & ApsaraVideo

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1TB free downstream traffic of CDN, DCDN, Live, and VoD. Provides various SDKs to boost development

Small enterprises that need to build official portals, small forums, and communities and have content publishing requirements for their users and high requirements for storage and access speed

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ECS c6 Instance 2C4G (2 instances)

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3 months free of compute-optimized instance ecs.c6.large using Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors

ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL

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2 months free of rds.mysql.n2.medium.2c instance that runs MySQL 5.7/8.0 with high availability

CDN Data Transfer

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1TB free to accelerate the delivery of images, small files, large files, and on-demand audio and video content.

Security Center - Enterprise Edition

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1 month free for a unified security management system that identifies, analyzes, and notifies you of security threats in real-time

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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1 month free of the professional, stable, and E2E solution to solve the security pain points of web applications

Small and medium-sized enterprises that require multi-cloud deployment scenarios for future business stability increments and need relatively mature security solutions to save labor costs of their O&M

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ECS c7 Instance 2C4G (2 instances)

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3 months free of compute-optimized instance ecs.c7.large, using Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors and supporting vTPM with CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2

Cloud Migration Hub

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Provides automatic and intelligent system surveys, cloud adoption planning, and migration management for free

Data Transmission Service

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Free to use and supports data transmission between data sources (such as relational, NoSQL, and online analytical processing (OLAP) databases)

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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1 month free to connect Alibaba Cloud SLB, CDN, and ECS to WAF and to configure the DNS records for your services that are deployed in the data center

Hybrid Backup Recovery

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Provides secure and efficient backup, disaster recovery, and archive services for free for Alibaba Cloud ECS instances, files, ECS databases, NAS, and OSS

Cloud Firewall

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This 7-day Cloud Firewall Premium Edition free trial offers protection for ECS instances and VPCs.

Medium-sized enterprises or high-growth companies need to have multiple products use scenarios for cloud computing IaaS and an industry-level architecture solution

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ECS g7 Instance 4C16G (1 instance)

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1 month free of general-purpose instance ecs.g7.xlarge using Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors and supporting vTPM with CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4

Tair

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1 month free of DRAM-base Edition and Redis-compatible in-memory database service that provides a variety of data structures and enterprise-level capabilities

OSS Standard (LRS) Storage Plan

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1TB free for enterprise customers to store and protect data for use cases (such as backup and restore, content distribution, data lakes, and data archive)

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes

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Allows you to deploy applications in high-performance and scalable containers and provides full lifecycle management

Security Center - Enterprise Edition

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1 month free for a unified security management system that identifies, analyzes, and notifies you of security threats in real-time

Function Compute

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Users that activate Function Compute for the first time can enjoy a free trial quota worth USD 24.13. The validity period of the trial plan is 3 months. Each new user can buy the free trial plan only once. The free trial plan includes 500,000 vCPU-seconds of vCPU usage, 1 million GB-seconds of memory usage, 4 million function invocations, and 100,000 GB-seconds of GPU usage.

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• Free tier products need to meet the 'first use of the product' condition, namely, there is no historical order under the product you choose to try.

• Each user is entitled to a one-time free tier of each product unless specified otherwise. If you have multiple accounts, only one account is eligible to participate.

• During the free tier period, you must add a payment method to continue using the service for free. These payment methods include the credit card, debit card, and PayTM.

• Users who pass our Company Real Name Registration verification process are eligible for Enterprise Free Tier. Those who have already joined our Individual Free Tier are not eligible for the Enterprise Free Tier.

• The products offered in the Free Tier program are subject to Alibaba Cloud online terms.

• If we find that you are not qualified to participate in the free tier activity, the instances that you create during the free tier period are stopped. These instances will be released after 15 days. We will send you a notice 72 hours before these instances are stopped.

• Elastic Compute Service's free trials are only available to new users of computing products that have registered on Alibaba Cloud's official website and have completed real-name registration. That is, users who have previously purchased Elastic Compute Service instances and Simple Application Servers with a new purchase order greater than or equal to $0 are not eligible for Elastic Compute Service's free trials, and users who have not generated a postpaid bill greater than or equal to $0 and have not generated a trial order in history are eligible for Elastic Compute Service's free trials.

• You can enjoy a special offer on the first renewal of a free-trial ECS instance. However, you cannot modify the instance configurations, such as upgrading the configurations or purchasing additional data disks. The renewal period is one year. The instances involved in the activity are subject to the information displayed on the buy page.

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• Alibaba Cloud reserves the right to disqualify users who engage in the following activities on our platform and/or with our services: credit card theft, fraud, bitcoin mining or similar conduct, illegal activities, or any other activity that conflicts with our terms of service. You will not be eligible for the free tier if you or your organization create(s) more than one account to receive the benefits under the free tier.

• Users who apply for the Enterprise Free Tier will be asked to submit certain company information, which will not be used for any other purpose except for the verification process.

• Alibaba reserves the right to adjust the products in this free tier campaign and end the campaign at any time.

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