About ECS Free Trial：

Enjoy these offers for up to 12-months following your initial sign-up date to Alibaba Cloud
Enterprise customers can obtain higher specifications.
After you receive an ECS free trial offer, the system will automatically give you the discount, which can be used for new purchases, upgrades, and renewals. The offer covers many specifications.
No Additional Fees: ECS free trial packages are of the subscription type. Therefore, no fees/bills will be automatically deducted or generated after expiration. You can experience them with confidence.
We do not recommend modifying ECS instance type and quantity, system disk type and size, and bandwidth. Otherwise, the order price will not be 0 USD. You can pay attention to the total price at the bottom of the receiving page. If the order price is 0 USD, you can try it with confidence.

Process before applying ECS free offer

You must sign up with Alibaba Cloud and add payment method before participating in the ECS free trial, both of which are indispensable:

Sign up with Alibaba Cloud

Go to Alibaba Cloud website (https://www.alibabacloud.com) and Click Free Account in the upper right corner of the page. Select account type and fill in email and password.

You need to verify your email address or phone number. Click the Send button. This will result in a numerical code being sent to you in an email (or a text/SMS message.) It should arrive within a minute or so. When the code arrives, type it into the box. Afterward, you will be redirected to the next page.

Fulfill basic information and add payment method

(1) Fulfill basic information

Now that your account is verified, you need to enter some additional information, such as your name, address, city, state, and postal code.

(2) add payment method

Next, you need to enter a payment method to ensure that your Alibaba Cloud services continue to work when your free trial expires. After entering your credit card details, the card needs to be verified and validated. Alibaba Cloud will charge a small amount (less than $1, which will be returned to your account later) to your card.

Get an ECS Free Trial Offer

Select an ECS Free Trial Offer

ECS Trial provide below instance:

Instance	configuration	Free Trial Duration
ecs.c6.large	2vcpu4G, 5Mbps Bandwidth, 100G System disk	3 months, 2 instances
ecs.c7.large	2vcpu4G, 5Mbps Bandwidth, 100G System disk	3 months, 2 instances
ecs.g7.xlarge	4vcpu16G, 5Mbps Bandwidth, 100G System disk	1 month
ecs.t5-lc1m1.small	1vcpu1G, 1Mbps Bandwidth, 40G System disk	1 year
ecs.t5-c1m1.large	2vcpu2G, 1Mbps Bandwidth, 40G System disk	3 months
ecs.c5.large	2vcpu4G, 1Mbps Bandwidth, 40G System disk	3 months

Enter the free trial page, find the ECS offer you want to try and check its specifications and rules. You can use the filter bar on the left for quick selection. Please see the following figure:

Apply ECS Free Trial Offer

Select the desired product and click Try Now to go to the order page. We do not recommend modifying other configurations (except for the ECS image) on the following page. Otherwise, the order price will not be 0 USD. If the price is not 0 USD due to other configurations, we recommend checking the free trial page and trying again. After confirmation, click Preview without entering the optional System Configurations and Grouping. After clicking Preview, you can see the detailed order page. Confirm that the total price is 0 USD before clicking Create Order. Create Order: Check the service agreement to confirm the items and click Create Order to enter the purchase page. You can click Subscribe to receive the offer if the order amount is 0 USD. After receiving it, you can go to the management console and click ECS to view the details. If the ECS instance is not found, you can switch regions to search for it.

Console

The console is the portal to manage cloud resources, which can be found in the upper right corner of the Alibaba Cloud home page, as shown below: Click "Console" in the upper right corner to enter the home page of the console, as shown below. Find the product you want to manage on this page and click the product name to enter the console of the product to manage and use. Click Elastic Compute Service to ECS console and you will find the free ECS instance.

Discount for Upgrade/Renewal/New Purchase

About Discount for Upgrade/Renewal/New Purchase

The system will give customers participating in the ECS product free trial a discount (applicable to upgrade/renewal/new purchase).

ECS Free Tier offer	Discount on renewal of ECS free tier instance	Discount on new purchase of another ECS instance	Discount on Upgrade of ECS free tier instance
c5 2C4G 3Months	60% OFF on your first renewal for a 1-year subscription; 40% OFF on your first renewal for a subscription of less than 1 year	60% off on first-time purchases of a t5,t6,c5,c6,g5, or g6 instances for a 1-year subscription, 40% OFF on first-time purchases of these instances for a subscription of less than 1 year; 40% off on first-time purchases of a g7,c7, or r7 instances for a 1-year subscription, 20% OFF on first-time purchases of these instances for a subscription of less than 1 year;	40% OFF
t5 1C1G 1Year
t5 2C2G 3Monhs
c6 2C4G 3Months	40% OFF on your first renewal for a 1-year subscription; 20% OFF on your first renewal for a subscription of less than 1 year
g7 4C16G 1Month
c7 2C4G 3Months

Please refer to the ECS offer description in the following figure for detailed instructions.

New Purchase discount

When you purchase t5/t6/c5/c6/g5/g6/g7 ECS, the discount is automatically applied, as shown in the following screenshot. Note: Only a newly purchased t5/t6/c5/c6/g5/g6/g7 ECS with 8 cores or less, 0-5MB bandwidth, 40-100GB system disk, and duration within one year can enjoy the discount. Please see the details on the page.