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Reputation: 29557

Understanding AWS pricing for MySQL RDS

I am looking into AWS RDS for MySQL pricing.

When I create a database using their EasyCreate option, one of the options is the following for $2.078/hour (about $1,500 / month).

However, when I look on the pricing chart https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/pricing/, it tells me that the db.r5.xlarge costs $0.48/hour on demand (about $345/month) and even less if paid up front.

The 500 GiB storage is $115 per month even with multi-AZ deployment.

I realize there can be some differences based on the chosen region, but not anywhere near that much.

What costs am I missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2901

Answers (2)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269340

I reported this a UI bug and it has now been fixed in the Amazon RDS console:

Amazon RDS price

Upvotes: 2

Chris Williams
Chris Williams

Reputation: 35188

I have had a go at creating this in the console and can confirm that the configuration matches below

Configuration of Easy Create

It also comes with 7 days of backup retention. Considering that some options do not even have a price for them with (Oracle and SQL Server) at this point in time, I am inclined to believe there is not any additional pricing.

Saying that I would recommend creating outside of the "Easy Create" view for a production DB.

Upvotes: 0

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