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seong_hun_33109
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Sep 04, 2018

AWS F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (Free Trial)

Hi, everyone.   I want to test F5 BIG-IP VE on AWS for free. I am a free tier class for AWS. When I tried to create an F5 BIG-IP VE instance, I checked the 30-day Free Trial. If I use it for 30 da...
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Philip_Jonsson
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Sep 05, 2018

Hey Seong!

 

I'm not sure you will be able to run it again once you have deployed it, but, a fair warning, you will not be able to run a BIG-IP in AWS completely free. The AWS free tier only applies to EC2 t2.micro instances and the BIG-IP requires at least a t2.medium. The 30-day trial will cover the hourly software charges of the product but the AWS infrastructure charges will still apply.

 

And for a t2.medium in region US East (N. Virginia) running on 64bit AMI will cost $0.4 EC2/hr or aprox. $10 per 24 hours.

 

Take it from someone who have received a bill from AWS when expecting everything to be free ;)