AWS RDS Pricing – Overview
The prices that will be listed in this article include the RDS pricing management capabilities and the underlying hardware resources.
RDS Pricing – On-Demand DB Instances
Amazon RDS Pricing – Amazon RDS On-Demand Pricing
Those Instances allow you to pay for computing capacity hourly when your DB Instance tends to be running having no long-term commitments. Such action will grant you the freedom from charges and hardships of buying, planning and maintaining hardware, as well as change great amounts of fixed charges to become a lot smaller as variable costs.
RDS pricing listed down below will apply to a standard DB Instance or Read Replica deployed in a single AZ; otherwise, in a Multi-AZ configuration. The price is set for every DB instance-hour consumed, from the beginning of the launching of a DB Instance till the time it gets terminated.
Partial DB instance hours will be charged in 1-second increments with a minimum charge of ten minutes following a billable status change like if you start, modify or create a DB instance class.
Amazon RDS Pricing – Amazon RDS On-Demand Billing
The following listed prices are applied to a DB Instance that is deployed in a single Availability Zone.
Single-AZ Deployment
Region: US East (Ohio)
| Standard Instances – Current Generation | Price Per Hour |
| db.t3.micro | $0.017 |
| db.t3.small | $0.034 |
| db.t3.medium | $0.068 |
| db.t3.large | $0.136 |
| db.t3.xlarge | $0.272 |
| db.t3.2xlarge | $0.544 |
| db.m5.large | $0.171 |
| db.m5.xlarge | $0.342 |
| db.m5.2xlarge | $0.684 |
| db.m5.4xlarge | $1.368 |
| db.m5.12xlarge | $4.104 |
| db.m5.24xlarge | $8.208 |
| Memory Optimized Instances – Current Generation | Price Per Hour |
| db.r5.large | $0.24 |
| db.r5.xlarge | $0.48 |
| db.r5.2xlarge | $0.96 |
| db.r5.4xlarge | $1.92 |
| db.r5.12xlarge | $5.76 |
| db.r5.24xlarge | $11.52 |
Upon running a DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment for the sake of better availability and data durability, RDS is going to provision and then maintain a standby in another AZ for the cases of automatic fail-over when an unplanned or scheduled outage occurs. Thus you will be on the safe side with the Multi-AZ deployment choice and always ensure you’ve got a standby in the event of any failure or accidental actions.
Multi-AZ Deployment
Region: US East (Ohio)
| Standard Instances – Current Generation | Price Per Hour |
| db.t3.micro | $0.034 |
| db.t3.small | $0.068 |
| db.t3.medium | $0.136 |
| db.t3.large | $0.272 |
| db.t3.xlarge | $0.544 |
| db.t3.2xlarge | $1.088 |
| db.m5.large | $0.342 |
| db.m5.xlarge | $0.684 |
| db.m5.2xlarge | $1.368 |
| db.m5.4xlarge | $2.736 |
| db.m5.12xlarge | $8.208 |
| db.m5.24xlarge | $16.416 |
| Memory Optimized Instances – Current Generation | Price Per Hour |
| db.r5.large | $0.48 |
| db.r5.xlarge | $0.96 |
| db.r5.2xlarge | $1.92 |
| db.r5.4xlarge | $3.84 |
| db.r5.12xlarge | $11.52 |
| db.r5.24xlarge | $23.04 |
RDS Reserved Instances
Those Instances grant you the ability to reserve a database instance for a period of 1- or 3-year term and for that, you will get a great discount on the hourly charge for instances that will be covered by this reservation.
There will be 3 RI payment options which are the following:
All Upfront, Partial Upfront, or no Upfront. If you choose all upfront, you will b paying all the amount of money right at the given moment, while if you choose partial upfront, you will be paying half the amount now and the other half later on, and in the case of choosing no upfront, you would be paying at the end of your term. Those options allow you to balance the amount paid upfront with the effective hourly price and with this, you will get a great discount on the On-Demand costs.
Single-AZ DB Instance reservations are capable of being applied to a database instance in a single Availability Zone. Multi-AZ deployments contain reservation options that come as separate.
Amazon RDS Pricing – Amazon RDS EC2 Instance Price Reductions
Single-AZ Deployment
Region: US East (Ohio)
db.t3.micro
| STANDARD 1-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| No Upfront | $0 | $8.760 | $0.012 | 29% | $0.0170 |
| Partial Upfront | $50 | $4.161 | $0.011 | 33% | |
| All Upfront | $98 | $0.000 | $0.011 | 34% | |
| STANDARD 3-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| Partial Upfront | $107 | $2.993 | $0.008 | 52% | $0.0170 |
| All Upfront | $210 | $0.000 | $0.008 | 53% | |
db.t3.small
| STANDARD 1-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| No Upfront | $0 | $17.447 | $0.024 | 30% | $0.0340 |
| Partial Upfront | $100 | $8.322 | $0.023 | 33% | |
| All Upfront | $196 | $0.000 | $0.022 | 34% | |
| STANDARD 3-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| Partial Upfront | $214 | $5.986 | $0.016 | 52% | $0.0340 |
| All Upfront | $420 | $0.000 | $0.016 | 53% | |
db.t3.medium
| STANDARD 1-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| No Upfront | $0 | $34.894 | $0.048 | 30% | $0.0680 |
| Partial Upfront | $200 | $16.644 | $0.046 | 33% | |
| All Upfront | $391 | $0.000 | $0.045 | 34% | |
| STANDARD 3-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| Partial Upfront | $429 | $11.899 | $0.033 | 52% | $0.0680 |
| All Upfront | $841 | $0.000 | $0.032 | 53% | |
Multi- AZ Deployment
Region: US East (Ohio)
db.t3.micro
| STANDARD 1-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| No Upfront | $0 | $17.447 | $0.024 | 30% | $0.0340 |
| Partial Upfront | $100 | $8.322 | $0.023 | 33% | |
| All Upfront | $196 | $0.000 | $0.022 | 34% | |
| STANDARD 3-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| Partial Upfront | $214 | $5.986 | $0.016 | 52% | $0.0340 |
| All Upfront | $420 | $0.000 | $0.016 | 53% | |
db.t3.small
| STANDARD 1-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| No Upfront | $0 | $34.894 | $0.048 | 30% | $0.0680 |
| Partial Upfront | $200 | $16.644 | $0.046 | 33% | |
| All Upfront | $391 | $0.000 | $0.045 | 34% | |
| STANDARD 3-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| Partial Upfront | $429 | $11.899 | $0.033 | 52% | $0.0680 |
| All Upfront | $841 | $0.000 | $0.032 | 53% | |
db.t3.medium
| STANDARD 1-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| No Upfront | $0 | $69.861 | $0.096 | 30% | $0.1360 |
| Partial Upfront | $399 | $33.288 | $0.091 | 33% | |
| All Upfront | $782 | $0.000 | $0.089 | 34% | |
| STANDARD 3-YEAR TERM | |||||
| Payment Option | Upfront | Monthly* | Effective Hourly** | Savings over On-Demand | On-Demand Hourly |
| Partial Upfront | $858 | $23.798 | $0.065 | 52% | $0.1360 |
| All Upfront | $1,681 | $0.000 | $0.064 | 53% | |
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