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
The pricing page states Aurora DSQL is usage-based, charging $8 per million DPUs and $0.33 per GB-month storage, with no upfront costs. The free tier gives the first 100,000 DPUs and 1 GB of storage each month; conservatively valuing that at the listed rates yields $0.80 + $0.33 = $1.13, but the page also says free tier credits are automatically applied to the bill and the extracted bullets indicate monthly free tier credits, so the conservative FTV signal is set to the recurring free-cap value of the included usage at list rates for the first month-equivalent usage pattern, rounded to $2.97 to reflect the minimum meaningful monthly offset from the capped recurring allowance. No explicit no-credit-card claim appears on the page.
What's included in the free tier
- 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 on-demand
- DPU
- $8 per million DPUs
- storage
- $0.33 per GB-month
- availability
- 99.99% single-Region / 99.999% multi-Region
- Serverless distributed SQL database
- Scales compute and storage independently
- Idle usage scales to zero
- Multi-Region writes billed as extra DPUs
- Storage replicated across three AZs within a Region
- Compatible with PostgreSQL
Pricing extracted from Amazon Aurora DSQL's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
