Amazon Relational Database Service Custom pricing

With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you can use your existing Oracle Database software license and media under the Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) model.

DB instances are an isolated database environment running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle offers On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing. You can deploy your DB instance in a single Availability Zone (Single-AZ).

On-Demand DB instances let you pay for your database by the hour with no long-term commitments or upfront fees. This frees you from the cost and complexity of planning and purchasing database capacity ahead of your needs. On-Demand DB instances are ideal for development, test, and other short-lived workloads.

Pricing is per DB instance-hour consumed from the time a DB instance is launched until it is deleted. Partial DB instance-hours are billed in one-second increments with a 10-minute minimum charge following a billable status change such as creating, starting, or modifying the DB instance class.

Note: On-Demand Instances are available for both Standard Edition 2 (SE2) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Charges do not vary by edition for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) model.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle Reserved Instances (RI) give you the option to reserve a DB instance for a one- or three-year term at a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instance pricing. You have the choice of three RI payment options—No Upfront, Partial Upfront, and All Upfront—which enable you to balance the amount you pay upfront with your effective hourly price.

Reserved Instances for RDS Custom for Oracle are available in the Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) licensing model with Standard Edition 2 (SE2) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Your charges do not vary by edition for BYOM Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle pricing.

The following Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle tables show the RI pricing per hour for Single-AZ by Region for the latest instance types and database edition.

With Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, you can choose from two licensing models. Under Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), you can use your existing SQL Server database software licenses, whereas under License Included (LI), you do not need to separately purchase a SQL Server Database software license. The LI pricing includes the software, underlying hardware resources, and Amazon RDS Custom management capabilities.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server offers On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing.

With On-Demand Instance pricing, you pay for compute capacity on an hourly basis 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.

For BYOM, On-Demand Instances are enabled for customer-supplied media with Developer, Standard, or Enterprise Edition SQL Server licenses, whereas for LI, On-Demand Instances are available for Web, Standard, and Enterprise Edition licenses.

The BYOM pricing table shows price per hour for Single-AZ and Multi-AZ by Region and the latest instance types.

Similarly, the LI pricing table for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server shows price per hour for the latest instance types and licensing editions available for Single-AZ compared to Multi-AZ by Region.

For a price discount, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server offers Reserved Instances (RI) that can be reserved for a one-year term. You have the choice of three RI payment options: No Upfront, Partial Upfront, and All Upfront, which allows you to balance how much you pay upfront with your effective hourly price

Reserved Instances are available for both License Included and BYOM pricing..

The below tables show RI prices per hour for Single-AZ by Region across licensing editions and instance types. 

Example 1: You provision a db.m5.xlarge Single-AZ instance in the US East (N. Virginia) Region using the On-Demand purchase model.

1 db.m5.xlarge Single-AZ instance x $0.410/hour = $0.410
Hours in month: 730
Total: $0.410 * 730 = $299.30

Database storage consists of one or more Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to your Amazon RDS Custom DB instance that store the data and log files. Amazon RDS Custom makes two database storage classes available to you: Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose. Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose offer SSD-backed volumes, with durability ranging from 99.8% to 99.999%.

Provisioned IOPS volumes are a premium storage class that provide high performance for mission-critical, low-latency, or high-throughput workloads. With Provisioned IOPS, you are charged for the amount of storage you provision and the number of IOPS.

General Purpose volumes offer a balance of price and performance. With General Purpose storage, you pay for the storage you provision and, for some volume types, IOPS and throughput.

Example 1: You provision a General Purpose gp2 volume with 500 GB of storage capacity in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

Storage: 500 GB General Purpose gp2 x $0.115/GB = $57.50
IOPS: $0
Total: $57.50 + $0 = $57.50

Example 2: You provision a Provisioned IOPS io1 volume with 500 gigabytes of storage capacity and 200 in/out operations per second (IOPS) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

Storage: 500 GB Provisioned IOPS io1 x $0.125/GB = $62.50
IOPS: 200 IOPS x $0.10/IOPS = $20
Total: $62.50 + $20 = $82.50

Amazon RDS Custom will automatically take backups of your DB instance and retain those backups for a period of time you specify (up to 35 days). Automated backups consist of system-generated snapshots and database transaction logs, and you can use automated backups to recover your DB instance in the unlikely event that it becomes unavailable. You can also take a manual snapshot, and use either the manual snapshot or system-generated snapshot to restore your DB instance to the point in time the snapshot was taken.

Amazon RDS Custom provides you with backup storage up to the provisioned storage size of your DB instance at no additional charge. You are only billed for backup storage that exceeds the calculated allocation. The total amount of allocated backup storage is calculated per account and is the aggregate of system and manual snapshots across all of your Amazon RDS Custom DB instances in a Region.

Amazon RDS Custom also provides you with access to the transaction logs generated by your DB instance. The transaction logs are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket, owned by you, every five minutes. You are billed separately for the cost of storing the logs in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and for any requests to and from the S3 bucket that contain the logs. For information on those charges, see Amazon S3 pricing.

The table below represents data transferred into and out from your Amazon RDS Custom DB instance. For data transfer charges within the same AWS Region, see: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) on-demand pricing.

Q. How much does Amazon RDS Custom cost per month?
Monthly cost varies based on which Region, instance type, licensing edition, and storage capacity you pick. For a customized pricing quote, please contact an AWS specialist for assistance. Our AWS specialists can assist with cost optimization opportunities and eligibility for additional promotional credits, programs, or other discounts.

Q. How does Amazon RDS Custom pricing work?
Amazon RDS Custom pricing comprises of three main components: 1) instance type, 2) storage needs, and 3) licensing edition and model.

For your instance type, key factors include size and number of instances needed to support your data needs and deployment options (Single compared to Multi-AZ). Instance pricing is based on per-hour usage, whereas storage pricing is based on provisioned GiB per month. For your licensing edition and model, the major cost consideration is whether you plan to Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) or choose the Licensed-Included (LI) model.

To learn more, visit Amazon RDS pricing.

Q. Do I need to pay separately for licensing with Amazon RDS Custom?

Amazon RDS Custom offers several licensing options. For Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, you can choose a License Included (LI) pricing model, in which you do not need to purchase licensing separately. The LI pricing is inclusive of software, underlying hardware resources, and Amazon RDS Custom management capabilities.

Alternatively, you can bring your own licenses, which are purchased separately and not included in Amazon RDS Custom pricing. For Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server and Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, this would be the Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) pricing model.