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Free offers and services you need to build, deploy, and run database applications in the cloud

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Benefits of AWS cloud databases

Power generative AI apps

Unlock high throughput and highly relevant vector search outcomes with low latency using native vector database capabilities. Integrations with Amazon Bedrock provide fully managed and automated retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

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Secure and resilient

Secure your applications with encryption at rest and in transit, network isolation, and more. AWS delivers resiliency with up to 99.999% availability, multi-AZ deployments, multi-Region replication, automated failovers, and more.

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Performance at scale

Start small and scale with relational databases that have 3–5x higher throughput than alternatives or nonrelational databases that provide submillisecond to microsecond latency at any scale.

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Cost effective

Lower total cost of ownership by using the right tool for the job, and leverage innovations like serverless, Aurora I/O-Optimized for price predictability, and EC2 Graviton4 instances for additional price performance benefits.

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Fully managed

Free your teams from time-consuming tasks. With proven operational excellence, AWS handles tasks like server provisioning and backups and also provides continuous monitoring, self-healing storage, and automated scaling.

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Simplicity of operations

Scale instantly using serverless, with no servers to manage and zero downtime maintenance. Also, AWS zero-ETL integrations simplify analytics, ML, and search on operational data, removing the need to build or manage data pipelines.

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Free Product Offers

Build database solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

Product
Description
Free Tier Offer Details
Product Pricing
Amazon Aurora DSQL Distributed SQL Database Service

Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications.

This always free service is on the Free and Paid plan. Use your credits to evaluate beyond these monthly limits:

100k Distributed Processing Units

1GB of storage

Amazon Aurora DSQL Pricing
Amazon RDS Relational Database Service

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, or SQL Server.

Use credits to access Amazon RDS features in both Free and Paid plans. Free plan eligible instances include:


db.t3.micro and db.t4g.micro and 4 engines: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon RDS Pricing
Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL Database Service

Amazon DynamoDB  is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.

This always free service is on the Free and Paid plan. Use your credits to evaluate beyond these monthly limits:

25 GB of storage

25 provisioned Write Capacity Units (WCU)

25 provisioned Read Capacity Units (RCU)

Amazon DynamoDB Pricing
Amazon ElastiCache Caching Service

Amazon ElastiCache is a serverless, fully managed caching service delivering microsecond latency with Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS compatibility.

Use credits to access features in the Free and Paid plans, including:

Serverless cache creation in under a minute

Microsecond response times at scale

Amazon ElastiCache Pricing
AWS Database Migration Service Database Migration

AWS Database Migration Service is trusted by customers to securely migrate 1.5M+ databases with minimal downtime and zero data loss.

Use credits to access features in the Free and Paid plan, including:

Maintain high availability and minimal downtime during migration.

Discover, assess, convert, and migrate your database and analytics workloads with automated migration.

AWS Database Migration Service Pricing
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Document Database Service

Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, cost-effective, MongoDB-API compatible document database service.

30-day free trial with the Paid plan. The trial includes:

750 hours of DocumentDB on t3.medium instances

5 GB of storage

5 GB of backup storage

30M IOs

Amazon DocumentDB Pricing
Amazon Neptune Graph Database Service

Amazon Neptune is a serverless graph database and fully managed graph analytics service using popular open source APIs such as Gremlin, SPARQL, and openCypher.

 

30-day free trial with the Paid plan. The trial includes:

750 hours of Neptune t3.medium instance usage

10 million I/O requests

1 GB of storage

1 GB of backup

Amazon Neptune Pricing
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Wide Column Database Service

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service.

3-month free trial with the Paid plan. The trial includes:

30 million on-demand reads per month

30 million on-demand writes per month

1 GB of storage per month

Amazon Keyspaces Pricing
Amazon MemoryDB In-Memory Database Service

Amazon MemoryDB is a Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance.

2-month free trial with the Paid plan. The trial includes:

750 hours of MemoryDB on t4g.small instances per month

10 TB of data written per month for Valkey

20 GB of data written per month for Redis OSS

Amazon MemoryDB Pricing

Learn more about Databases with AWS

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS

Videos

Understanding Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (1:53)

What is Amazon DynamoDB? (1:01)

How Trimble Successfully Migrated Their Databases to the Cloud (3:13)

AWS Databases: Break Free to Save, Grow, and Innovate Faster (2:02)