| Plan or add-on | Usage-based |
|---|---|
| Free TierUp to 750 hours a month for 12 months on select single-AZ instances; accounts opened before July 15, 2025 | Free[2] |
| Data transferAdd-on to all plans, per GB | $0.01[1] per GB |
USD. List prices from the vendor's own page.
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What each plan includes
| Amazon RDS | |
|---|---|
| Free tier instance hours | 750 hours per month [1]Accounts opened before July 15, 2025; first 12 months |
| Free tier storage | 20 GB per month [1]General Purpose SSD; accounts opened before July 15, 2025; first 12 months |
| Free tier backup storage | 20 GB per month [1]Automated backups; accounts opened before July 15, 2025; first 12 months |
| General Purpose SSD storage range | 20 GiB to 64 TiB [1] |
| Provisioned IOPS range | 1,000 to 256,000 IOPS [1] |
| Provisioned IOPS storage range | 100 GiB to 64 TiB [1] |
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Free Tier
| Price | Where | Billing | Type | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeUp to 750 hours a month for 12 months on select single-AZ instances with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or SQL Server Express | Global | usage-based | List price | Vendor's own site | source [2] |
Data transfer
| Price | Where | Billing | Type | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.01 per GBBetween an EC2 instance and a database in different availability zones of the same region; same-zone transfer is free | – | usage-based | List price | Vendor's own site | source [1] |
About
Amazon RDS is AWS's managed relational database service, priced per database engine and instance type with on-demand or reserved instances and no minimum fee.[1] It is covered by the AWS Free Tier, and usage can count towards Database Savings Plans with a one-year commitment.[1]
Related products
- Alternative to Cloud SQL derived[?] Both managed MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases billed on instance usage
- Integrates with Amazon CloudWatch verified[3] Database metrics are published to CloudWatch at no extra charge
- Integrates with Amazon Redshift verified[4] Copies RDS data into Redshift for analytics
Referenced by
- Alternative to Cloud SQL derived sourced there
- Alternative to Oracle Base Database Cloud Service derived sourced there both run Oracle Database as a managed cloud service billed per compute unit per hour
- Alternative to Oracle Database@AWS derived sourced there both are managed relational databases on AWS; Amazon RDS can also run Oracle Database
- Integrates with AWS Elastic Beanstalk verified sourced there Can create an RDS database with the app and pass it the connection settings
- Integrates with Amazon CloudWatch verified sourced there RDS metrics flow into CloudWatch automatically
- Integrates with Amazon Quick Sight verified sourced there RDS databases can be used as a data source
- Integrates with Amazon Redshift verified sourced there RDS data is replicated into Redshift without building pipelines
Sources
- Managed Relational Database - Amazon RDS Pricing - Amazon Web Services Vendor page.
- [1] Captured 23 Sep 2026.
- [2] Captured 24 Sep 2026.
- Amazon RDS Features Vendor page.
- [3] Captured 24 Sep 2026.
- Amazon RDS FAQs Vendor page.
- [4] Captured 24 Sep 2026.