Setting Up Amazon Free vps To Download Envato Elements To Google Drive.

Hi house, Please i have an active envato element subscription for one month, the network in my area is a bit slow, so i wanted a very fast and free means of downloading as much as i can within the month. currently what i am planning to do is to create an amazon free vps, then create unlimited shared google drive account using this bhw thread for uploading of the downloaded content. https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/get-unlimited-google-drive-storage-shared-drive.1291021/ . my question is that with such activity home amazon are not going to bill my card for upload and downloads. please share more light on this guys or if you have a better free alternative. thanks

any suggestion?

1. Always setup billing alert when working with cloud providers. AWS provides that out of the box, so you are covered.
2. AFAIK, amazon doesn't charge for incoming traffic. You have to pay when you decide to download. But for upload it shouldn't cost you anything.
3. Check the product you need properly. For example, EC2 (as you mentioned free vps) may not be a solution for storage. You will probably need aws cloud storage for this (never tried myself).

Gogol said:

1. Always setup billing alert when working with cloud providers. AWS provides that out of the box, so you are covered.
2. AFAIK, amazon doesn't charge for incoming traffic. You have to pay when you decide to download. But for upload it shouldn't cost you anything.
3. Check the product you need properly. For example, EC2 (as you mentioned free vps) may not be a solution for storage. You will probably need aws cloud storage for this (never tried myself).

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Gogol said:

1. Always setup billing alert when working with cloud providers. AWS provides that out of the box, so you are covered.
2. AFAIK, amazon doesn't charge for incoming traffic. You have to pay when you decide to download. But for upload it shouldn't cost you anything.
3. Check the product you need properly. For example, EC2 (as you mentioned free vps) may not be a solution for storage. You will probably need aws cloud storage for this (never tried myself).

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thanks soooooooo much.

1. ok i will find out how to setup billing alert.
2. do you mean if i want to download files on the vps i have to pay? i will not be storing much on the server as i will be uploading them on my google drive and deleting them from the vps. or what do you think?
3. since i am not storing them on the vps, do you think its still the cloud storage i will need? i am storing them on google drive

safeenaat1 said:

thanks soooooooo much.

1. ok i will find out how to setup billing alert.
2. do you mean if i want to download files on the vps i have to pay? i will not be storing much on the server as i will be uploading them on my google drive and deleting them from the vps. or what do you think?
3. since i am not storing them on the vps, do you think its still the cloud storage i will need? i am storing them on google drive

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As for the second point - If you upload files to Amazon (be it from your machine or a different source), it doesn't cost you anything AFAIK. When you want to restore those files (thereby downloading from the amazon storage) it will cost you money/increase your free usage (if such usage is available.). If the downloaded data isn't huge, then it won't cost you much atall. For more detail, see their pricing page here:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

As for the third point: So, you are hosting the script that sends those files to google storage; from the amazon vps. Am I correct? If so, then google drive might work just fine. You don't need amazon's storage atall. Your free ec2 instance should do the trick. However, still have the billing alert set. If something goes wrong, you will be able to manage it quickly.

Bonus tip:

Finish this tutorial (no matter how boring it is) before you do anything on aws.