AWS price change, published 2025-06-05

Amazon Relational Database Service price list, published 2025-06-05: 2,288 cuts, 28 increases

On 2025-06-05, AWS published a version of the Amazon Relational Database Service price list that changed 2,316 existing list prices in 25 regions: 2,288 cuts and 28 increases. Effective May 2025. The median like-for-like change was −19.04% (−32.55% to +100.03%).

2,316
price changes
2,288
cuts
28
increases
0
other (not like-for-like or too small to show)
May 2025
effective

Service code AmazonRDS, price list version 20250605175647. Cuts and increases count like-for-like changes only: same unit, both prices above $0, and within 11x either way.

What changed

One line per movement: prices in this publication that changed by the same percentage are one line, with one example and the number of prices. Like-for-like moves come first, largest first, then changes that are not like-for-like. Showing the first 25 of 37 lines. Large percentages often come from a very small old price; read the description and both prices.

Region (example)AWS descriptionTermOldNewChangePrices
AWS GovCloud (US-East)MariaDB, db.m5.4xl reserved instance appliedReserved 3yr Partial Upfront$0.3356$0.6713+100.03%1
AWS GovCloud (US-East)MariaDB, db.m5.16xl reserved instance appliedReserved 1yr No Upfront$4.178$8.3561+100.00%24
AWS GovCloud (US-East)MariaDB, db.m5.8xl reserved instance appliedReserved 3yr Partial Upfront$0.6713$1.3425+99.99%1
AWS GovCloud (US-East)MariaDB, db.m5.2xl reserved instance appliedReserved 1yr No Upfront$0.5223$1.0445+99.98%2
AWS GovCloud (US-East)USD 109.5552 per RDS db.x2iedn.24xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running Oracle EE (BYOL)On-Demand$162.432$109.5552−32.55%54
Asia Pacific (Thailand)USD 0.386 per RDS db.r7i.large Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running Aurora MySQLOn-Demand$0.502$0.386−23.11%9
Asia Pacific (Thailand)USD 0.297 per RDS db.r7i.large Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running Aurora MySQLOn-Demand$0.386$0.297−23.06%9
US East (N. Virginia)USD 1.902 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$2.465$1.902−22.84%27
US East (N. Virginia)USD 121.728 per RDS db.x2iedn.32xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$157.747$121.728−22.83%81
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)USD 1.9624836 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$2.536$1.9624836−22.61%36
Canada (Central)USD 100.416 per RDS db.x2iedn.24xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$128.986$100.416−22.15%27
Canada (Central)USD 2.092 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$2.687$2.092−22.14%9
EU (Stockholm)USD 104.112 per RDS db.x2iedn.24xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$133.286$104.112−21.89%36
EU (Ireland)USD 2.283 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$2.91$2.283−21.55%3
EU (Ireland)USD 109.584 per RDS db.x2iedn.24xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$139.661$109.584−21.54%21
EU (Ireland)USD 4.566 per RDS db.x2iedn.2xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$5.819$4.566−21.53%12
EU (London)USD 115.03296 per RDS db.x2iedn.24xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$146.035$115.03296−21.23%33
EU (London)USD 2.39652 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$3.042$2.39652−21.22%39
US West (N. California)USD 118.6848 per RDS db.x2iedn.24xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$150.288$118.6848−21.03%36
EU (Frankfurt)USD 2.663 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$3.354$2.663−20.60%3
EU (Frankfurt)USD 10.652 per RDS db.x2iedn.2xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$13.414$10.652−20.59%33
Asia Pacific (Seoul)USD 11.0323608 per RDS db.x2iedn.2xlarge Multi-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running SQL Server DE (BYOM)On-Demand$13.859$11.0323608−20.40%144
EU (Ireland)USD 18.264 per RDS db.x2iedn.8xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running Oracle EE (customer-provided media)On-Demand$22.592$18.264−19.16%10
US East (N. Virginia)USD 1.902 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running Oracle EE (BYOL)On-Demand$2.352$1.902−19.13%90
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)USD 1.9624836 per RDS db.x2iedn.xlarge Single-AZ instance hour (or partial hour) running Oracle EE (BYOL)On-Demand$2.426$1.9624836−19.11%62

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