Mikael Thakur

Mikael Thakur Mike Thakur is an award winning business professional with a focus on delivering measurable results, increasing profitability, and implementing strategy.

Mikael Thakur is an accomplished business professional with over ten years of combined experience solving problems and delivering value added solutions for leading businesses and organizations in the private and public sectors. He specializes in business strategy formulation and implementation, strategic planning, digital strategy & e-commerce product development, general management, diagnostics,

business development, and consulting for small and large scale businesses within the Technology, Internet, and Consumer Goods industries. Experienced and proven as an innovator and visionary on large and small scale projects, Mikael’s background shows an understanding of design patterns, business processes and strategy and how they relate to the ever changing customer centric business landscapes.

03/01/2025
02/06/2025

Best "Always Free" Cloud:

1.Heroku

It's perfect.

Exactly the sort of product I am after.

Best thing: generous free tier and paid plans not so generous

Just one issue: Pricing 🚀 when upgrading to paid plans

Platform as as Service (PaaS)

Heroku 'always' free services

2.AWS

AWS has pretty generous free tier. Unfortunately capped at 12 months.

Always free services are mostly utilities i.e. not good on their own.

DynamoDB always free 25GB is exceptional yet it is vendor locked

Lastly it requires debit card

More of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

AWS 'always' free services

3.Azure

4.Google Clou

Google's Cloud functions, App engine and Cloud run are generous

Yes there is Google's free f1-micro. Still its a VM to manage.

Google cloud is expensive in terms of upgrading and is most expensive in relation of AWS and others.

Lastly it requires debit card

Mixed services including PaaS and IaaS

Google Cloud 'always' free services

5.Oracle Cloud

Extremely generous 'always' free tier like 2 VM machine 1GB RAM each

It has only 2% market share ~ this means less people so less answers on Stackoverflow and less support

It is behind competition at least in terms of the big players

Lastly it requires debit card

Oracle Cloud 'always' free services

Finding more choices

Heroku is the only reasonable option at this point. All other services conflict with the needs and wants.

IBM Cloud

No debit card required

Generous 'always' free services ~ about 40+ of 'always' free services

IBM Cloud 'always' free services ~ (you will need to click always free tab)

Cloudflare workers

Extremely generous 'always' free tier

Extremely affordable paid services (something which Heroku lacks)

Free tier has 10ms CPU limit (sounds trivial yet its decent amount and does not include the time where app is waiting for other APIs)

No support for Mongodb at the moment (the only negative! although they are planning on it)

No debit card required

CloudFlare Workers 'always' free services

CloudFlare Workers 'always' free request limits

CloudFlare Workers 'always' free account plan limits

Fly.io

3 shared-cpu-1x VMs with 256MB RAM full time.

160GB bandwidth per month (Google cloud and others cap this usually and no where as generous)

10 active certificates (in Heroku this is paid service)

Super easy to deploy like Heroku CLI

Fly.io 'always' free services

Other odd choices

These are odd services because they have generous 'always' free tier. They are intended for website hosting so their free tier (which to our interest) really is mostly cloud functions. These are useful for hosting your web app after your have build your API or depending on needs, it may be more appropriate to skip the API all together and just use provided serverless functions for any backend functionality.

Netlify

125k serverless functions every month with no expiry date

100GB /month bandwidth

Netlify 'always' free services ~ (you will need to scroll down to see free plans)

Vercel

Up to 100 GB-Hrs on cloud functions every month with no expiry date

Serverless function timeout limit to 5 seconds (in some cases not enough)

100GB /month bandwidth

Vercel 'always' free services ~ (you will need to scroll down to see free plans)

Vercel 'always' free general limits

Ideal choice

Fly.io

Is like Heroku. Just a lot more affordable

For example (for surface level comparison):

1GB shared cpu is $0.0000022/s ($5.70/mo) (In Heroku, 1GB it is $50 per month)

1 dedicated 2GB is $0.0000120/s ($31.00/mo) (In Heroku, 2GB it is $100 per month)

Cloudflare workers (in future)

Super fast and it is 100,000 requests per day (yes, per day!)

Once it supports Mongodb and possibly the ability to run Node.js express.js although express.js can be done by other means too

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