AWS ALWAYS FREE TIER • ZERO IDLE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL
Deploy Managed on AWS: Maximize the Free Tier
Run Paperplane in your own AWS VPC with zero carrier markup. Only you have access to your AWS account — we never ask for your credentials.
Deploy on AWS
Directly managed via AWS Marketplace • Private in your VPC
1,000,000
SQS Requests / mo Free
1,000,000
SNS Push & Webhooks Free
1,000,000
Lambda Requests Free
25 GB
DynamoDB NoSQL Free
1,000
WhatsApp Convs Free
$0.10 / 1k
SES Emails (Only Cost)
How Paperplane Operates with Zero Idle Cost
AWS offers an Always Free Tier that never expires after 12 months. Paperplane is architected specifically around these eternal allowances. Every message queue, database row, and serverless invocation fits comfortably inside these permanent quotas.
Amazon SQS
Decoupled FIFO & Standard Queues
Free Allowance: 1,000,000 requests every month forever.
Paperplane Role: Buffers message bursts, guarantees 0% dropped dispatches, and handles retry backoffs without paying for Redis clusters.
Amazon SNS
Native Telecom SMS & Mobile Push
Free Allowance: 1,000,000 push/HTTP notifications every month.
Paperplane Role: Direct telecom SMS gateway. You pay raw wholesale carrier rates (e.g. $0.0075/SMS) directly to AWS with zero Paperplane markup.
AWS Lambda
Scale-to-Zero Serverless Ingestion
Free Allowance: 1,000,000 requests + 3.2M seconds compute every month.
Paperplane Role: Powers your API endpoints (`/send`, `/verify`, `/logs`). Scales to zero when idle—zero baseline server bill.
Amazon DynamoDB
Single-Digit ms NoSQL Audit Store
Free Allowance: 25 GB storage + 25 WCU + 25 RCU forever.
Paperplane Role: Stores delivery logs, timestamps, message statuses, and provider IDs with automatic 30-day TTL cleanup.
Meta WhatsApp Cloud API
Direct Business Messaging
Free Allowance: First 1,000 user-initiated service conversations free every month.
Paperplane Role: Fast authentication and 2FA via WhatsApp with instant SMS fallback if the recipient is offline.
The Only Carrier Cost
Amazon SES
Direct Raw Email Delivery
Raw Carrier Rate: $0.10 per 1,000 emails ($0.0001 / email).
Paperplane Role: Transactional email dispatch. Unlike SendGrid charging $20–$50/mo minimums, 10,000 emails on SES cost exactly $1.00 billed directly by AWS.
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