posted 8 years ago
And, just to answer the questions here, no you cannot remove billing after you open the account. You will not be billed unless you request services that are billable, however and there's plenty of warning when you are about to do so. In fact, you can even set up alerts just to be sure.
As a sometimes-impoverished AWS user, I pay very close attention to that, trust me. And although Amazon's own information is the authoritative source and subject to change, no I haven't had my "free" period expire.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.