Free Data Lakes and Analytics on AWS

The fastest way to get answers from all your data to all your users

Analytics and Data Lake use cases

Business intelligence

Simple and cost effective to run high-performance queries on petabytes of semi-structured and structured data so that you can build powerful reports and dashboards.

Data warehousing

Run SQL and complex analytic queries against structured and unstructured data in your data warehouse and data lake, without the need for unnecessary data movement.

Scalable data lakes

Setting up and managing data lakes today usually involves a lot of manual and time-consuming tasks. However, AWS automates these tasks so that you can build and secure your data lake in days instead of months.

Operational analytics

Search, explore, filter, aggregate, and visualize your data in near real time for application monitoring, log analytics, and clickstream analytics.

Learn more about additional AWS Analytics and Data Lake products

Analytics and Data Lake product offers from the AWS Free Tier

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING

AWS Glue

Serverless data integration

Serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. 

ALWAYS FREE

First million objects stored and first million accesses are free on the AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Glue Pricing

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Distributed search and log analytics

A distributed, community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed, 100% open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search.

12 Months Free

750 hours per month of a single-AZ t2.small.search or t3.small.search instance 

10 GB per month of optional EBS storage (Magnetic or General Purpose)

Amazon OpenSearch Service Pricing

Amazon QuickSight

ML-powered business intelligence (BI) service

Scalable, serverless, embeddable, ML-powered BI service.

30 Days Free

10 GB of SPICE capacity for a total of 4 users

Amazon QuickSight Pricing

Amazon Redshift

Data warehouse

Fully managed, scalable cloud data warehouse that accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure analytics at scale. 

2 Months Free

750 DC2.large node hours per month

Amazon Redshift Pricing

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Object storage


Object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

12 Months Free

5 GB of standard storage

20,000 Get requests

2,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests

100 GB of Data Transfer Out per month

Amazon S3 Pricing

Amazon SageMaker

ML model development

Fully managed service to build, train, and deploy ML models with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

250 hours of ml.t3.medium instance on Studio notebooks 

250 hours of ml.t2 medium instance or ml.t3.medium instance on on-demand notebook 

Amazon SageMaker Pricing

* See AWS Free Tiers for terms and conditions

Learn more about AWS Analytics and Data Lakes

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS

  • Videos
  • Introduction to Data Warehousing on AWS with Amazon Redshift (2:07)
    Amazon Redshift Data Lake Export (4:57)
  • Tutorials
  • 10-Minute Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS analytics and data lake services

    Deploy a Data Warehouse Using Amazon Redshift

    In this project, you will create and configure an Amazon Redshift data warehouse, load sample data, and analyze it using a SQL client.

    Learn more »

    Migrate from Oracle to Amazon Redshift

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to successfully migrate from Oracle to Amazon Redshift with minimal downtime.

    Learn more »

    Store and Retrieve a File with Amazon S3

    This step-by-step tutorial will help you store your files in the cloud using Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3). Amazon S3 is a service that enables you to store your data (referred to as objects) at massive scale. In this tutorial, you will create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file. 

    Learn more »

    Create business intelligence dashboards with Amazon QuickSight

    In this tutorial, you create data analyses, visualize the data, create stories and share the analyses through data dashboards in the cloud using Amazon QuickSight.

    Learn more »

Free Data Lakes and Analytics on AWS

The fastest way to get answers from all your data to all your users

Analytics and Data Lake Use Cases

Business Intelligence

Simple and cost effective to run high performance queries on petabytes of semi-structured and structured data so that you can build powerful reports and dashboards.

Data Warehousing

Run SQL and complex, analytic queries against structured and unstructured data in your data warehouse and data lake, without the need for unnecessary data movement.

Scalable Data Lakes

Setting up and managing data lakes today usually involves a lot of manual and time-consuming tasks, but AWS automates these tasks so you can build and secure your data lake, in days instead of months.

Operational Analytics

Search, explore, filter, aggregate, and visualize your data in near real time for application monitoring, log analytics, and clickstream analytics.

Free Product Offers

Analytics & Data Lake product offers from the AWS Free Tier

AWS Glue
Serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development.
ALWAYS FREE

First million objects stored and first million accesses are free on AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Glue Pricing »
Amazon OpenSearch Service
Fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost effectively at scale.
12 MONTHS FREE

750 hours per month of a single-AZ t2.small.elasticsearch or t3.small.elasticsearch instance 

10 GB per month of optional EBS storage (Magnetic or General Purpose)

Amazon OpenSearch Service Pricing »
Amazon QuickSight
Scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service.
30 DAYS FREE

10 GB of SPICE capacity for a total of 4 users

Amazon QuickSight Pricing »
Amazon Redshift
Fully managed, scalable cloud data warehouse that accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure analytics at scale.
2 MONTHS FREE

750 DC2.Large node hours per month

Amazon Redshift Pricing »
Amazon S3
Object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB of standard storage

20,000 Get requests

2,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests

100 GB of Data Transfer Out per month

Amazon S3 Pricing »
AWS SageMaker
Fully managed service to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.
FREE TRIAL

250 hours of ml.t3.medium instance on Studio notebooks 

250 hours of ml.t2 medium instance or ml.t3.medium instance on on-demand notebook 

Amazon SageMaker Pricing »

Learn more about Free Data Lakes and Analytics with AWS

  • Videos
  • Introduction to Data Warehousing on AWS with Amazon Redshift (2:07)
    Amazon Redshift Data Lake Export (4:57)
  • Tutorials
  • 10-Minute Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS analytics and data lake services

    Deploy a Data Warehouse Using Amazon Redshift

    In this project, you will create and configure an Amazon Redshift data warehouse, load sample data, and analyze it using a SQL client.

    Migrate from Oracle to Amazon Redshift

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to successfully migrate from Oracle to Amazon Redshift with minimal downtime.

    Store and Retrieve a File with Amazon S3

    This step-by-step tutorial will help you store your files in the cloud using Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3). Amazon S3 is a service that enables you to store your data (referred to as objects) at massive scale. In this tutorial, you will create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file. 

    Create business intelligence dashboards with Amazon QuickSight

    In this tutorial, you create data analyses, visualize the data, create stories and share the analyses through data dashboards in the cloud using Amazon QuickSight.

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

Creating an AWS account is free and gives you immediate access to the AWS Free Tier.