Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Estimate your
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On-Demand DB Instances
On-Demand DB Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour
your DB Instance runs with no long-term commitments. This frees you
from the costs and complexities of planning, purchasing, and
maintaining hardware and transforms what are commonly large fixed
costs into much smaller variable costs.
Standard Deployment
The pricing below applies to a standard DB Instance or Read Replica
deployed in a single Availability Zone.
Multi-AZ Deployment
When you run your DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment for enhanced
data durability and availability, Amazon RDS provisions and
maintains a standby in a different Availability Zone for automatic
failover in the event of a scheduled or unplanned outage. Learn
more about Multi-AZ deployments.
For both standard and Multi-AZ deployments, pricing is per DB
Instance-hour consumed, from the time a DB Instance is launched
until it is terminated. Each partial DB Instance-hour consumed will
be billed as a full hour.
Reserved Instances
Amazon RDS Reserved Instances give you the option to make a low, one-time payment for each DB instance you want to reserve and in turn receive a significant discount on the hourly charge for that instance. Amazon RDS provides three RDS Reserved Instance types (Light, Medium, and Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances) that enable you to balance the amount you pay upfront with your effective hourly price. Based on your application workload and the amount of time you plan to run them, Amazon RDS Reserved Instances may provide substantial savings over running on-demand DB instances. To learn more about Reserved DB Instances, please visit our Reserved Instances page.
Standard DB Instance reservations can be applied to either a
standard Database Instance or Read Replica deployed in a single
Availability Zone. Multi-AZ deployments have separate reservation
options.
Light Utilization Reserved Instances
Medium Utilization Reserved Instances
Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances
Please note the one-time fee per DB Instance is
non-refundable.
Database Storage
Provisioned IOPS Storage
For each DB Instance class, Amazon RDS provides you the ability to specify or provision the I/O capacity your database needs. You can provision and scale from 1,000 IOPS to 30,000 IOPS and 100GB to 3TB of storage with the MySQL DB Engine. Note that maximum realized IOPS will vary by database workload. With Provisioned IOPS, you will be charged for the throughput and storage you provision. However, you will not be charged for the I/Os you consume.
Standard Deployment
Multi-AZ Deployment*
When you run your DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment for enhanced
data durability and availability, Amazon RDS provisions and maintains
a standby in a different Availability Zone for automatic failover in
the event of planned or unplanned outages. Learn more about Multi-AZ deployments.
Standard Storage
For each DB Instance class, Amazon RDS provides you the ability to
select from 5 GB to 3 TB of associated storage capacity for your
primary data set.
Standard Deployment
Multi-AZ Deployment*
When you run your DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment for enhanced
data durability and availability, Amazon RDS provisions and maintains
a standby in a different Availability Zone for automatic failover in
the event of planned or unplanned outages. Learn more about Multi-AZ deployments.
* For Multi-AZ deployments, when you update your
database, write I/O usage will double as Amazon RDS synchronously
replicates your data to the standby DB instance. Read I/O usage
will remain the same when reading from the database.
Backup Storage
Backup storage is the storage associated with your automated
database backups and any user-initiated DB Snapshots you have
taken. Increasing your backup retention period or taking additional
database snapshots increases the backup storage consumed by your
database.
There is no additional charge for backup storage up to 100% of
your provisioned database storage for an active DB Instance.*
After the DB Instance is terminated, backup storage is billed at
$0.125 per GB-month.
Additional backup storage: $0.125 per GB-month
*
For example, if you have an active DB Instance with 10GB-month of
provisioned database storage, we will provide up to 10GB-month of
backup storage at no additional charge. Based upon our experience
as database administrators, the vast majority of databases require
less raw storage for a backup than for the primary data set,
meaning that most customers will never pay for backup storage.
Data Transfer**
Internet Data Transfer
The pricing below is based on data transferred “in” and
“out” of Amazon RDS.
Data transferred between Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Instances in the same Availability Zone is free.
Data transferred between Availability Zones for replication of Multi-AZ deployments is free.
Amazon RDS DB Instances outside VPC: For data transferred between an Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon RDS DB Instance in different Availability Zones of the same Region, there is no Data Transfer charge for traffic in or out of the Amazon RDS DB Instance. You are only charged for the Data Transfer in or out of the Amazon EC2 instance, and standard Amazon EC2 Regional Data Transfer charges apply ($.01 per GB in/out).
Amazon RDS DB Instances inside VPC: For data transferred between an Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon RDS DB Instance in different Availability Zones of the same Region, Amazon EC2 Regional Data Transfer charges apply on both sides of transfer.
Data transferred between Amazon RDS and AWS services in different regions will be charged as Internet Data Transfer on both sides of the transfer.
** As part of AWS’s Free Usage Tier, new AWS customers will receive free 15 GB of data transfer out each month aggregated across all AWS services for one year.
*** Rate tiers take into account your aggregate Data Transfer Out usage across Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon RDS, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, AWS Storage Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon VPC.
AWS GovCloud (US) Region
AWS GovCloud (US) is an AWS Region designed to allow US government agencies and customers to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. The AWS GovCloud (US) framework adheres to U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. Workloads that are appropriate for the AWS GovCloud (US) region include all categories of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), including ITAR, as well as Government oriented publically available data. For pricing information, please visit the AWS GovCloud (US) Pricing page.
