Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Pricing

“Personally, I feel, RDS though it scales much, the pricing is too expensive, if the pricing for larger instance types are reduced, it would be much better.”

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Microsoft SQL server requires license, either core-based or full license which can be purchased one time but, AWS RDS solution became cheaper in this scenario as our project work needed the... … This has helped as it provides pay-as-you go pricing tier from AWS cloud.”

“Currently the cheapest on-demand RDS instance costs $0.041 / hour, whereas EC2 t1.nano instances cost $0.006 / hour.”

“additional price for managed services not flexible pricing model based on storage and CPU very basic monitoring metrics.”

“The pay-as-you-go pricing model makes it cost-effective.”

“improved cyber security good return on investment price stability.”

“Also, we've found RDS to be cost-efficient as we pay only for the resources we use; we can effectively manage our database costs and optimize our budget allocation. … While Azure SQL Database offers a tiered pricing structure and automatic patching, and Cloud SQL provides straightforward pricing and easy scaling, Amazon RDS's extensive integration within AWS makes...”

“Global Reach can be possible because of this Cost saving, not too much expensive. … cost saving scalibility Security and Compliance Reduced Maintenance Effort Negative: Cost Overruns, Migration Costs, Licensing Costs.”

“I will admit that my experience comes from the benefit of having a premium tier of support but even working with free-tier accounts I have not had problems getting help with AWS products when needed.”

“Positive - Move to Redshift from Oracle could save us up to 50% annually on database licensing Positive - Move to Aurora is helping us save on on premise support we pay for mySQL Negative - still,...”

“In Pre-SaaS era, its very difficult to answer the question, how much does a project needs to pay for infrastructure, but with moving to RDS, we could allocate cost centers allocated for the project...”