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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Savings Plans portfolio with the launch of Database Savings Plans, a new flexible pricing model designed to reduce the cost of managed database usage by up to 35%. This new offering extends the same commitment-based savings that customers already use for compute workloads—now applied across AWS’s fully managed database services.
The plan allows customers to commit to a consistent hourly usage amount ($/hour) for a 1-year term. AWS then automatically applies discounted rates to eligible database usage every hour, while any usage beyond the commitment is billed at standard on-demand pricing.
A Flexible Way to Reduce Database Costs
Modern applications often rely on diverse database engines—relational, nonrelational, in-memory, graph, and time-series—spread across provisioned and serverless deployments. As organizations modernize, migrate, or scale globally, their database footprints typically evolve.
Database Savings Plans help maintain cost predictability despite changing usage patterns, allowing customers to:
Switch between database engines
Move from provisioned to serverless deployments
Expand workloads across Regions
Continue receiving savings across all supported services
Customers can track coverage and utilization with existing AWS cost management tools.
Supported Services & Savings Breakdown
Database Savings Plans apply automatically across eligible usage for:
As AWS introduces new Regions, instance types, or database capabilities, they are automatically included.
Discount Highlights:
| Deployment Type | Max Savings vs. On-Demand |
|---|
| Serverless databases | Up to 35% |
| Provisioned instances | Up to 20% |
| DynamoDB / Keyspaces on-demand throughput | Up to 18% |
| DynamoDB / Keyspaces provisioned capacity | Up to 12% |
How to Purchase Database Savings Plans
AWS provides two tools inside the Billing & Cost Management Console to help customers determine the right commitment level:
1. Recommendations View
Uses recent on-demand usage to automatically suggest an hourly commitment that maximizes savings.
Navigate to:
Billing → Savings & Commitments → Savings Plans → Recommendations
2. Purchase Analyzer
Ideal for building custom scenarios—useful for businesses with seasonal spikes, expected migrations, or incremental purchase strategies.
Customers can simulate:
After selecting the desired commitment, simply choose Add to cart to proceed.
AWS CLI and API purchases are also supported.
Availability
Database Savings Plans are available today in all AWS Regions outside of China.
For more details, AWS recommends reviewing the Savings Plans User Guide and visiting the official Database Savings Plans pricing page.