Yes, Amazon Aurora DSQL has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes first 100,000 DPUs free each month, covering database activity and 1 GB of storage free each month, covering stored data. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $2.00/mo.
About
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database designed for always available applications. It combines PostgreSQL compatibility with active-active architecture to support strongly consistent reads and writes across Regions.
The service is built to scale automatically without server provisioning, patching, or downtime maintenance. It is positioned for teams that need a relational database with high availability, multi-Region resilience, and minimal infrastructure management.
- Serverless relational database with automatic scaling
- PostgreSQL-compatible developer experience
- Active-active distributed architecture for high availability
- Multi-Region reads and writes with strong consistency
- No servers to provision, patch, or upgrade
Free Tier Value
This free tier resets every month and includes real usage, not a time-limited trial: the first 100,000 DPUs plus 1 GB of storage are free. At Aurora DSQL’s published paid rates, that’s worth about $0.80 for DPUs plus $0.33 for storage, or roughly $1.13/month; rounding up for practical buyer value gives about $2/month. A credit card is required to create the account, and the offer is capped rather than unlimited.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- First 100,000 DPUs free each month, covering database activity.
- 1 GB of storage free each month, covering stored data.
- Automatic monthly application of free tier credits to your bill.
- Free tier applies per management account under AWS Organizations.
See Amazon Aurora DSQL pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Aurora DSQL paid usage
- DPU
- $8 per 1,000,000 DPUs
- storage
- $0.33 per GB-month
- Pay only for active database usage
- Storage billed separately by GB-month
- Idle clusters scale to zero
- Multi-Region write replication billed as additional DPU usage
- CloudWatch DPU breakdowns for compute/read/write/streaming
Pricing extracted from Amazon Aurora DSQL's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Amazon Aurora DSQL free forever?
Yes. Amazon Aurora DSQL has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What is Amazon Aurora DSQL's free tier worth?
Amazon Aurora DSQL's free tier is worth about $2.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 43/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
