Is Elastic Beanstalk free to use?

Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies the deployment and management of applications in the AWS cloud environment. While the service itself does not have a direct cost, using Elastic Beanstalk involves the utilization of other AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, S3 storage, and more.

These resources are billed according to AWS pricing models, which means that any applications deployed using Elastic Beanstalk incur costs based on the infrastructure they use. For instance, if you deploy an application that runs on EC2 instances, you will be charged for those instances, and if you store data in S3, you will be billed for that storage.

Thus, while Elastic Beanstalk provides tools and services for managing application environments at no additional charge, the underlying resources it provisions do come with costs, leading to the conclusion that it requires payment based on the resources utilized.