Value of AWS Free Tier for Training/Certification

https://aws.amazon.com/free

In Sydney region value of free tier during first 12 months for common services:

• EC2: 750 hours of t2.micro instance (Windows, Linux, RHEL, or SLES) per month = 750 x $0.0192 x 12 months = $172.80
• S3: 5GB storage per month = 5 x $0.025 x 12 months = $1.50
• RDS: 750 hours of t2.micro instance (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle BYOL, or SQL Server) per month = 750 x 0.026 x 12 = $234.00
• Lambda: 400,000 GB-seconds per month = 400,000 x $0.000001667 x 10 x 12 = $80.02

Total value of free tier during first 12 months = US$488.32

Please note there will be other costs such as:

• EBS storage costs
• EBS snapshots
• Network egress costs
• ELBs, ALBs

AWS free tier is a great way to learn about AWS with minimal cost. If people use it in smart way (turn off instances when they are not using it!) then they could easily learn AWS to get their Associate level certification for less than $50.

Free Training:

• AWS Technical Essentials Day
• AWS Business Essentials Day

https://www.aws.training/LearningLibrary 
Select: Offered by: Amazon Web Services, Delivery Method: Virtual Classroom Live

I recommend A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy online training:
https://acloud.guru/membership
https://linuxacademy.com/join/pricing