$300 creditCloud / IaaS
Google Cloud Free
Cloud Run & managed services
Starts atFree
Bandwidth1 GB NA egress
Storage30 GB HDD + 5 GB GCS
Root access, 24 GB RAM, $0 — yes, really
Cloud Run & managed services
Self-hosting & Docker stacks
Developers who want root access without AWS complexity
Low-cost servers close to your users
Learning cloud engineering
Every link below goes to the provider’s own docs — the real setup steps, the real limits, the CLI reference straight from the people who wrote it. Free tiers change there first, weeks before anyone writes a tutorial about it.