Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing

Amazon RDS for Oracle has two pricing models: On-Demand Instances and Reserved Instances.

Both pricing models offer Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments. Pricing is at the per-DB-instance-hour consumed. 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.

On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour 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.

On-Demand Instances are available for both Licensing options. Supported licenses are:

• License Included: Standard Edition 2 (SE2).
• BYOL: Standard Edition 2 (SE2) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Charges do not vary by edition for BYOL Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing.
  

The following Amazon RDS for Oracle tables show the on-demand price per hour for Single-AZ vs. Multi-AZ by Region for the latest instance types.

Amazon RDS for Oracle T3 DB instances run in Unlimited mode, which means that you will be charged if your average CPU utilization over a rolling 24-hour period exceeds the baseline of the instance. CPU Credits are charged at $0.075 per vCPU-Hour. The CPU Credit pricing is the same for all T3 instance sizes across all Regions and is not covered by Reserved Instances.

Amazon RDS for Oracle Reserved Instances give you the option to reserve a DB instance for a one- or three-year term at a significant discount compared to the On-Demand Instance pricing for the DB instance. 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.

Single-AZ DB Reserved Instances can be applied to a database instance in a single Availability Zone, while Multi-AZ deployments have separate reservation options.

Reserved Instances are available for both Licensing options. Supported licenses are:

• License Included: Standard Edition 2 (SE2)
• BYOL: Standard Edition 2 (SE2) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Charges do not vary by edition for BYOL Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing.

The following Amazon RDS for Oracle tables show the RI price per hour for Single-AZ vs. Multi-AZ by Region for the latest instance types, licensing model, and licensing edition.

Amazon RDS for Oracle Reserved Instances provide size flexibility for the Oracle database engine under the BYOL model. With size flexibility, your RI’s discounted rate will automatically apply to usage of any size in the same instance family (M5, T3, R5, etc.). The new DB instance that you create must match the specifications of the reserved DB instance—same DB engine, DB instance type, license type (license-included or bring-your-own-license), and AWS Region.

Please note, Reserved Instance prices do not cover storage or I/O costs. Please visit Reserved Instances to learn more about our payment options and terms that may affect pricing.

Your database storage charges will be the same whether you are running your Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance under the License Included model or the BYOL model.

Amazon RDS provides you the ability to select from 20 GiB to 64 TiB of associated general purpose (SSD) storage capacity for your primary data set. 

Provisioned IOPS volumes are designed to meet the needs of your most I/O-intensive workloads, especially database workloads that require low I/O latency and consistent I/O throughput.

With provisioned IOPS volumes, you can scale from 1000 IOPS – 256,000 IOPS and 100 GiB to 64 TiB of storage. You will be charged for the IOPS and storage you provision. Note that maximum realized IOPS will vary by database workload.

With Amazon RDS for Oracle, you have the ability to select from 20 GiB to 3 TiB of associated magnetic storage capacity for your primary data set. Magnetic storage is supported for backward compatibility, and not recommended for any new storage needs. For any new storage needs, we recommend using General Purpose SSD or Provisioned IOPS SSD.

Your provisioned database storage charges will be the same whether you are running your Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance under the License Included model or the BYOL model.

AWS customers receive 100 GB of free data transfer “out” from Amazon RDS for Oracle to the Internet each month (in aggregate across all AWS Services and Regions, except China and GovCloud). All data transfers ‘in’ to Amazon RDS for Oracle from the Internet is free. The pricing below is based on data transferred “in” and “out” of Amazon RDS for Oracle.

The monthly cost varies on a case-by-case basis. To help estimate your cost, fill out the pricing calculator with the following details, such as instance type, Region, licensing model, and storage needs, to get a rough estimate. 

For a more customized pricing quote, reach out to an AWS database specialist. Qualified customers may receive promotional credits, AWS Investment through AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), or other incentives for Amazon RDS for Oracle.

Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing consists of three main components: 1) instance type, 2) storage needs, and 3) licensing edition and model. Under instance type, key factors include size and number of instances needed to support your data needs, deployment options (Single vs. Multi-AZ), and pricing model (On-Demand vs. Reserved Instances). Instance pricing is based on usage-per-hour, whereas storage pricing is based on provisioned GiB per month.

Licensing fees are unique to commercial databases. Under Licensing, the major input is whether you plan to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) or choose the Licensed-Included (LI) service model. Only the License Included model is the cost for Standard Edition 2 (SE2) covered in the Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing for On-Demand and Reserved Instances.

Customers who choose the BYOL model will need to calculate the licensing fees separately from Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing. Under the BYOL model, the main cost driver is whether your applications require Enterprise Edition or if SE2 can support your database needs.

Oracle Database licensing costs for Standard Edition 2 (SE2) are included in the rate for License Included options only. License Included is available for both On-Demand and Reserved Instances across a range of instance types.

Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. For customers with a Japanese billing address, use of AWS is subject to Japanese Consumption Tax.

There are several ways to lower your monthly costs, including optimizing and rightsizing your instances, evaluating your licensing edition (SE2 vs EE), and leveraging Reserved Instances for predictable production workloads. This cost optimization blog goes into more details. For further assistance, contact your account team or customer support team who will help you optimize your databases for cost and performance.

No, post-purchase modification of your Reserved Instance for Amazon RDS for Oracle cannot be made. You will not be able to change Region, DB Engine, DB Edition, DB Instance Class, Deployment Type and term length after you purchase your Reserved Instances. See more details on the Reserved Instance page.