Don't understand. Need more explanation.

There is a lot to understand, but essentially they are giving you access to a server (or more precisely a VMware instance of a server) with the designations above. A micro instant is about the smallest they offer in terms of CPU. It will work fine as a development environment. It will come with Windows 2008 server.

WTFrak

^ This is where the world is going to my friend. Pretty soon companies will own nothing of their own infrastructure. The overall cost of purchasing equipment, licensing server software, backup, maintenance, power, space, racks, and paying the IT geeks to sit there cruising the web and actually maintaining the server for about 10 hours a week are going to be over soon.

right on shmeagle...

Best for the purposes stated:
Test existing applications in the cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS.

2,000 Put Requests - A fairly simple script could eat that pronto. Then you would would be here:
if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.

If you don't even know the minutiae of AWS, hosted database or webserver, you have a long way to go to fully use this service.

Shmeagle - While the migration of IT infrastructure to web services is nothing new, you are still going to need the IT geeks (professionals), just not as many.

30GB of storage, free for a year, Why not.

As long as you have no expectations of privacy I agree, why not.