Free AWS Cloud Security Trials

Determine your security posture and raise your security bar with free offers

Product Benefits

Gain the control and confidence you need to securely run your organization with the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. Improve your ability to meet core security and compliance requirements, such as data locality, protection, and confidentiality with the comprehensive services and features that AWS offers.

Continuously monitor network activity and account behavior

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Enforce fine-grained security policy at every network control point

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Build with comprehensive data protection in the cloud

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Investigate potential security issues and automate remediation responses

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Provide a comprehensive view of your compliance status

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Free Product Offers

 Build cloud security solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

Identity & Access Management

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING

Amazon Cognito

Identity management for customer-facing applications

Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.

ALWAYS FREE

The Your User Pool feature has a free tier of 50,000 MAUs each month**

10 GB of cloud sync storage. Expires 12 months after sign-up.

1,000,000 sync operations per month. Expires 12 months after sign-up.

Amazon Cognito Pricing

AWS IAM Identity Center

Access management for multiple AWS accounts or applications

AWS IAM Identity Center is where you create, or connect, your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access centrally across your AWS organization.

ALWAYS FREE

Unlimited
 

Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge

AWS Organizations

Central governance 

AWS Organizations helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources. 

ALWAYS FREE

Unlimited

Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge

Detection

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING

AWS Security Hub

Automate security checks and security alerts

AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and enables automated remediation.

30-DAY FREE TRIAL


ALWAYS FREE

After the first 30 days, users receive 10,000 ingested findings per account per region per month.

AWS Security Hub Pricing

Amazon GuardDuty

Intelligent threat detection

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. 

30-DAY FREE TRIAL

Amazon GuardDuty Pricing

Amazon Inspector

Automate vulnerability management

Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.
15-DAY FREE TRIAL

Accounts that have never run an Amazon Inspector assessment are eligible for 250 agent-assessments with host rules packages and 250 instance-assessments with the network reachability rules package at no cost during your first 90 days.

Amazon Inspector Pricing

AWS IoT Device Defender

Security management across your IoT devices and fleets

AWS IoT Device Defender makes it easy to audit configurations, authenticate devices, detect anomalies, and receive alerts to help secure your IoT device fleet.

30-DAY FREE TRIAL


1 million metric datapoints for the first month

Free for all the devices in your fleet for the first month

AWS IoT Device Defender Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch

Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises

CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization.

ALWAYS FREE

Most AWS Services (EC2, S3, Kinesis, etc.) send metrics automatically for free to CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch Pricing

Network and Application Protection

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING 
AWS WAF

Web application firewall 
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.  ALWAYS FREE

10 Million
bot control requests per month 
AWS WAF pricing 
AWS Shield

Managed DDoS protection service
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
ALWAYS FREE for AWS Shield Standard

AWS Shield Standard provides protection from common network and transport layer DDoS attacks at no additional charge.
AWS Shield pricing

 

Data Protection

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING 

Amazon Macie

Data discovery and protection for Amazon S3

Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS. 

ALWAYS FREE

The first 1 GB of data processed for sensitive data discovery every month is free after trial period. 

Amazon Macie pricing

AWS Private Certificate Authority

Create private certificates to identify resources and protect data

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, versatile certificate authority that helps organizations secure their applications and devices using private certificates.

30-Day Free Trial

Any new account to ACM Private CA can try the service for 30 days with no charge for operation of the first private CA created in the account and region.

AWS Private Certificate Authority pricing

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Encryption key management

AWS KMS makes it easy for you to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications. 

20,000 free requests per month 

AWS KMS Pricing

AWS Secrets Manager

Secrets management

AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. 

30-DAY FREE TRIAL

The free trial enables you to rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets over the 30-day period.

Your free trial starts when you store your first secret.  

AWS Secrets Manager pricing

 

Incident Response

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING 

Amazon Detective

Security investigation

Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. 

30-DAY FREE TRIAL

Amazon Detective Pricing

 

Compliance

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING 

AWS Audit Manager

Audit your AWS usage

AWS Audit Manager helps you continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards. 

2-MONTH FREE TRIAL

35,000 resource assessments per month for two months

The free tier will expire in two months (60 days) after the first subscription to Audit Manager.

AWS Audit Manager Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Track user activity and API usage

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. 

1 trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region. Amazon S3 charges apply.

Free - View, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services.

Free - Set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events.

Additional rates will apply for any data event and for additional copies of management events beyond the first copy in each region. See product information for more detail

AWS CloudTrail pricing

AWS Artifact

Self-service portal for on-demand access to AWS’ compliance reports

AWS Artifact provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements.

ALWAYS FREE

Unlimited

Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge

 

Learn more about Cloud Security with AWS

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS Learn more about AWS Cloud Security

  • Videos
  • Introducing Amazon Detective: Security Investigation (1:34)
    Introducing Amazon Macie: Data Security and Data Privacy Management (1:53)
    Introducing AWS Security Hub: Security and Compliance Center (2:34)
    Introducing Amazon GuardDuty: Threat Detection (2:26)
  • Tutorials
  • Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS Cloud Security

    Getting Started with AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance

    This course provides an overview of AWS security technology, use cases, benefits, and services. The course introduces various services in the AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance service category. By the end of this course, you will gain an understanding about the importance of security in the cloud and be able to identify AWS services that you can use to secure your data.

    Learn more »

    Getting Started with Amazon Cognito

    In this tutorial, you can quickly create your own directory to sign up and sign in users, and to store user profiles using Amazon Cognito User Pools. User Pools provide a user interface you can customize to match your app. User Pools also enable easy integration with social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers such as Microsoft Active Directory through SAML.

    Learn more »

    Getting Started with AWS Web Application Firewall

    In this tutorial, you will go through the individual steps of configuring AWS WAF using AWS CloudFormation and include Lambda scripts to help get started protecting your web applications.

    Learn more »

    Getting started with Amazon Inspector

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up Amazon Inspector and get started by creating and running your first assessment.

    Learn more »

    Getting started with Amazon Macie

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure a repository for sensitive data discovery results and create a job to discover sensitive data.

    Learn more »

    Getting Started with AWS Key Management Service

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your first key and define a policy to control how it can be used in minutes.

    Learn more »

    Getting started with AWS Audit Manager

    This tutorial provides an introduction to AWS Audit Manager. In this tutorial, you create an assessment using a standard framework and start automating evidence collection.

    Learn more »

Free Product Offers

Build cloud security solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

Identity & Access Management
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
ALWAYS FREE

The Your User Pool feature has a free tier of 50,000 MAUs each month**

10 GB of cloud sync storage. Expires 12 months after sign-up.

1,000,000 sync operations per month. Expires 12 months after sign-up.

Amazon Cognito Pricing »
AWS IAM Identity Center
AWS IAM Identity Center is where you create, or connect, your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access centrally across your AWS organization.
ALWAYS FREE

Unlimited

Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources.
ALWAYS FREE

Unlimited

Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge
Detection
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3.
30-DAY FREE TRIAL
Amazon GuardDuty Pricing »
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.
15-DAY FREE TRIAL

Accounts that have never run an Amazon Inspector assessment are eligible for 250 agent-assessments with host rules packages and 250 instance-assessments with the network reachability rules package at no cost during your first 90 days.

Amazon Inspector Pricing »
AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and enables automated remediation.
30-DAY FREE TRIAL

Always Free: After the first 30 days, users receive 10,000 ingested findings per account per region per month.

AWS Security Hub Pricing »
AWS IoT Device Defender
AWS IoT Device Defender makes it easy to audit configurations, authenticate devices, detect anomalies, and receive alerts to help secure your IoT device fleet.
30-DAY FREE TRIAL

1 million metric datapoints for the first month

Free for all the devices in your fleet for the first month

AWS IoT Device Defender Pricing »
Amazon CloudWatch
CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization.
ALWAYS FREE

Most AWS Services (EC2, S3, Kinesis, etc.) send metrics automatically for free to CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch Pricing »
Network and Application Protection
AWS WAF
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
ALWAYS FREE

10 Million bot control requests per month

AWS WAF pricing »
AWS Shield
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
ALWAYS FREE

ALWAYS FREE for AWS Shield Standard

AWS Shield Standard provides protection from common network and transport layer DDoS attacks at no additional charge.

AWS Shield Pricing »
Data Protection
Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.
ALWAYS FREE

The first 1 GB of data processed for sensitive data discovery every month is free after trial period.

Amazon Macie Pricing »
AWS Private Certificate Authority
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, versatile certificate authority that helps organizations secure their applications and devices using private certificates.
30-DAY FREE TRIAL

Any new account to ACM Private CA can try the service for 30 days with no charge for operation of the first private CA created in the account and region.

AWS Certificate Manager Pricing »
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
AWS KMS makes it easy for you to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications.
ALWAYS FREE

20,000 free requests per month

AWS KMS Pricing »
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
30-DAY FREE TRIAL

The free trial enables you to rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets over the 30-day period.

Your free trial starts when you store your first secret. 

AWS Secrets Manager Pricing »
Incident Response
Amazon Detective
Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
30-DAY FREE TRIAL
Amazon Detective Pricing »
Compliance
AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager helps you continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards.
2-MONTH FREE

35,000 resource assessments per month for two months

The free tier will expire in two months (60 days) after the first subscription to Audit Manager.

AWS Audit Manager Pricing »
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
ALWAYS FREE

1 trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region. Amazon S3 charges apply.

Free - View, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services.

AWS CloudTrail Pricing »
AWS Artifact
AWS Artifact provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements.
ALWAYS FREE

Unlimited

Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge

Learn more about Cloud Security with AWS

  • Videos
  • Introducing Amazon Detective: Security Investigation (1:34)
    Introducing Amazon Macie: Data Security and Data Privacy Management (1:53)
    Introducing AWS Security Hub: Security and Compliance Center (2:34)
    Introducing Amazon GuardDuty: Threat Detection (2:26)
  • Tutorials
  • Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS Cloud Security

    Getting Started with AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance

    This course provides an overview of AWS security technology, use cases, benefits, and services. The course introduces various services in the AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance service category. By the end of this course, you will gain an understanding about the importance of security in the cloud and be able to identify AWS services that you can use to secure your data.

    Getting Started with Amazon Cognito

    In this tutorial, you can quickly create your own directory to sign up and sign in users, and to store user profiles using Amazon Cognito User Pools. User Pools provide a user interface you can customize to match your app. User Pools also enable easy integration with social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers such as Microsoft Active Directory through SAML.

    Getting Started with AWS Web Application Firewall

    In this tutorial, you will go through the individual steps of configuring AWS WAF using AWS CloudFormation and include Lambda scripts to help get started protecting your web applications.

    Getting started with Amazon Inspector

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up Amazon Inspector and get started by creating and running your first assessment.

    Getting started with Amazon Macie

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure a repository for sensitive data discovery results and create a job to discover sensitive data.

    Getting Started with AWS Key Management Service

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your first key and define a policy to control how it can be used in minutes.

    Getting started with AWS Audit Manager

    This tutorial provides an introduction to AWS Audit Manager. In this tutorial, you create an assessment using a standard framework and start automating evidence collection.

AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier offers users an opportunity to explore products for free, with offers including products that are always free, free for 12 months, and short-term free trials.

Get Started

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