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.
* Images (for RDS for SQL Server only)	Billed based on unified standards.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	Unit price x Required duration
(Optional) Cross-region backup	Billed by storage space based on unified standards.	Pay-per-use	Unit price x Storage capacity x Required duration Unit price of storage space: $0.0002 USD/GB/hour
(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) Monitoring by Seconds (for RDS for MySQL only)	Billed based on unified standards.	Pay-per-use	Unit price x Billed duration For details about the unit price of Monitoring by Seconds, see Configuring Monitoring by Seconds. NOTE: Billed duration: indicates the usage duration of Monitoring by Seconds (1s or 5s).
(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.
(Optional) Deployment in DCC	Billed by the memory size	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	Unit price x Memory size x Required duration For details about the unit price, see "MySQL Deployed in a DCC" in RDS Pricing Details.