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Amazon Aurora pricing
Amazon Aurora publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Amazon Aurora plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serverless v2 | $0.12/hour | 3 | Entry tier |
| Provisioned | $29/month | 3 | +$28.88/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Serverless v2
$0.12/hourThe entry tier. It covers auto-scaling, pay per acu, instant scaling.
Provisioned
$29/monthOver Serverless v2, this tier adds:
- Dedicated instances
- Predictable performance
- Reserved capacity
What the product covers
The full Amazon Aurora feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- MySQL/PostgreSQL Compatible
- 5x MySQL Performance
- Auto-scaling Storage
- Global Database
- Serverless v2
- Multi-master
- Fault Tolerant
Integrations
- AWS Lambda
- S3
- CloudWatch
- IAM
- Secrets Manager
Platform
- Web support
- Aws support
People bring Amazon Aurora in for transaction processing, data storage, application backend, reporting, data analytics. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Amazon Aurora are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Amazon Aurora
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between $0.12/hour and $29/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Amazon Aurora runs on aws cloud, and is published by Amazon Web Services of Seattle, Washington. The full record is on the Amazon Aurora review.
Amazon Aurora pricing questions
- How much does Amazon Aurora cost?
- Amazon Aurora publishes 2 tiers, from $0.12/hour for Serverless v2 up to $29/month for Provisioned. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Amazon Aurora have a free plan?
- Yes, Amazon Aurora is recorded as usage-based, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Serverless v2 and Provisioned on Amazon Aurora?
- Provisioned costs $29/month against $0.12/hour, and adds dedicated instances, predictable performance, reserved capacity.
- Is the Provisioned plan on Amazon Aurora worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is dedicated instances, predictable performance, reserved capacity. It costs $29/month against $0.12/hour for Serverless v2. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Amazon Aurora?
- The record lists 14 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for transaction processing, data storage, application backend.
- Does Amazon Aurora charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Amazon Aurora prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Amazon Aurora against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Amazon Aurora to make a useful price comparison.