Amazon RDS Now Supports T2 Instances

We launched the T2 instance type last month. This new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type provides a solid level of baseline performance and the ability to burst above the baseline as needed. As I wrote in my blog post, these instances are ideal for development, testing, and medium-traffic web sites.

Today we are bringing the benefits of the T2 instance type to the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The db.t2.micro, db.t2.small, and db.t2.medium instances feature the latest Intel Xeon processors running at up to 3.3 GHz. You can launch new instances using a supported engine type (see below). If you have an existing instance that is running one of the supported engines, you can simply modify the instance:

Supported Database Engines
We currently support PostgreSQL, SQL Server (with the exception of Standard Edition License Included), and version 5.6 of MySQL. We are planning to supports versions 5.1 and 5.5 of MySQL in the near future.

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for T2 database instances starts at $0.008 per hour for a Three Year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance and $0.017 per hour for On-Demand instances. (see the RDS Pricing page for more information). As part of the AWS Free Tier, eligible AWS users have access to a db.t2.micro instance for 750 hours per month at no charge.

The new instances are available today in all AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and you can start using them today!

— Jeff;

PS – T2 instances are supported only within a Amazon VPC. For more information, read the documentation on T2 instances – VPC Support.