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Billed Items

Description

You will be billed for the instance class, storage space, and backup space. For details, see Table 1.

The billed items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

Table 1 DB instance billed items

Billed Item

Description

Billing Mode

Formula

* Instance class

Billed by vCPUs, memory, and instance type. Computing and storage capabilities vary by the number of vCPUs and memory size.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price x Required duration

For details about the unit price, see the price of each DB engine in RDS Pricing Details.

* Storage space

Billed based on unified standards.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price x Storage capacity x Required duration

For details about the unit price, see the storage price in RDS Pricing Details.

* Backup space

Billed based on unified standards.

Pay-per-use

Unit price x Billed backup capacity x Billed duration

For details about the unit price, see the backup space price in RDS Pricing Details.

NOTE:

The billed duration refers to the length of time the billed backup space was used for.

(Optional) EIP bandwidth

An EIP is required if the DB instance needs to access the Internet.

Billed by bandwidth, traffic, and the EIP reservation price.

  • EIP for a yearly/monthly DB instance: billed by bandwidth.
  • EIP for a pay-per-use DB instance: billed by bandwidth, traffic, or shared bandwidth. You are also charged for IP reservation if you do not bind the EIP to any instance.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

You can purchase a bandwidth add-on package or a shared traffic package.

Billed by fixed bandwidth

For details about the unit price, see EIP Pricing Details.

(Optional) Database proxies (for RDS for MySQL only)

Billed by the proxy instance class (vCPUs and memory) and nodes

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price x Required duration x Number of proxy nodes

For details about the unit price, see the price of database proxy in RDS Pricing Details.