Build Modern Applications with Free Databases on AWS
Product Benefits
AWS provides the broadest selection of purpose-built databases allowing you to save, grow, and innovate faster.
Purpose Built
Choose from 15+ purpose-built database engines including relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, wide column, and ledger databases.
Performance at Scale
Get relational databases that are 3-5X faster than popular alternatives, or non-relational databases that give you microsecond to sub-millisecond latency.
Fully Managed
AWS continuously monitors your clusters to keep your workloads running with self-healing storage and automated scaling, so that you can focus on application development.
Secure & Highly Available
AWS databases are built for business-critical, enterprise workloads, offering high availability, reliability, and security.
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Discover the role of vector datastores in generative AI applications.
Free Product Offers
Build database solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.
Product
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Description
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Free Tier Offer Details
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Product Pricing
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Graph Database Service |
Fully managed, high-performance graph database using popular open-source APIs such as Gremlin, SPARQL and openCypher.
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30 DAY FREE TRIAL 750 hours of Neptune t3.medium or t4g.medium instance usage 10 million I/O requests 1 GB of storage 1 GB of backup |
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Managed Relational Database Service
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Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle BYOL, or SQL Server |
12 MONTHS FREE 750 hours per month of db.t2.micro, db.t3.micro, and db.t4g.micro Single-AZ instance usage (applicable database engines) 20 GB of General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage 20 GB of storage for database backups and database snapshots |
Amazon RDS Pricing |
NoSQL Database Service |
A serverless database for applications that need high performance at any scale. |
ALWAYS FREE 25 GB of storage 25 units of write capacity 25 units of read capacity Enough to handle up to 200 million requests per month |
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Data Warehouse |
Fast, simple, cost-effective data warehousing. |
2-MONTH FREE TRIAL 750 DC2.Large node hours per month |
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AWS Database Migration Service Database Migration |
Migrate databases with minimal downtime. |
ALWAYS FREE 750 hours of Amazon DMS single Availability Zone dms.t2.micro instance usage 50 GB of included general purpose (SSD) storage |
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In-Memory Data Store |
Fully managed, Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS-compatible in-memory data store with real-time performance. |
12 MONTHS FREE 750 hours of cache.t2micro node usage |
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In-Memory Database |
Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance. |
2-MONTH FREE TRIAL 750 hours of MemoryDB on t4g.small instances per month ALWAYS FREE 10 TB of data written per month for Valkey 20 GB of data written per month for Redis OSS |
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Amazon DocumentDB
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A scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB. |
30 DAY FREE TRIAL 750 hours of Amazon DocumentDB on t3.medium instances for 30 days 5 GB of storage for 30 days 5 GB of backup storage for 30 days 30M IOs for 30 days |
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Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics Fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database |
A fast, scalable, and serverless time series database service that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events | 30 DAY FREE TRIAL 50 GB of Ingestion 750 GB-hours of Memory store usage 100 GB of Magnetic store usage 24 TCU-hours for queries |
Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics Pricing |
Learn more about Databases with AWS
Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS
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Videos
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Tutorials
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Videos
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Understanding Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (1:53)
How Trimble Successfully Migrated Their Databases to the Cloud (3:13)
What is Amazon DynamoDB? (1:01)
AWS Databases: Break Free to Save, Grow, and Innovate Faster (2:02)
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Tutorials
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10-Minute Tutorials
Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS database services
Create and Connect to a MySQL Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an environment to run your MySQL database (we call this environment an 'instance'), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything done in this tutorial is free-tier eligible.
Create and Query a NoSQL Table
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple table, add data, scan and query the data, delete data, and delete the table by using the DynamoDB console. DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database that supports both document and key-value store models. Its flexible data model, reliable performance, and auto scaling of throughput capacity make it a great fit for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT, and other applications. Everything in this tutorial is free-tier eligible.
Create and Connect to a Microsoft SQL Server Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Microsoft SQL Server database instance (we call this a 'DB instance'), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything in this tutorial is free tier eligible.
Create and Connect to a PostgreSQL Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an environment to run your MariaDB database (we call this environment an 'instance'), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything in this tutorial is free tier eligible.
Build Modern Applications with Free Databases on AWS
Explore our product benefits
Purpose Built
Choose from 15+ purpose-built database engines including relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, wide column, and ledger databases.
Performance at Scale
Get relational databases that are 3-5X faster than popular alternatives, or non-relational databases that give you microsecond to sub-millisecond latency.
Fully Managed
Get relational databases that are 3-5X faster than popular alternatives, or non-relational databases that give you microsecond to sub-millisecond latency.
Secure & Highly Available
AWS databases are built for business-critical, enterprise workloads, offering high availability, reliability, and security.
AWS makes it easy to build and scale generative AI
Free Product Offers
Build database solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.
750 hours of Neptune t3.medium or t4g.medium instance usage
10 million I/O requests
1 GB of storage
1 GB of backup
750 hours per month of db.t2.micro, db.t3.micro, and db.t4g.micro Single-AZ instance usage (applicable database engines)
20 GB of General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage
20 GB of storage for database backups and database snapshots
25 GB of storage
25 units of write capacity
25 units of read capacity
750 DC2.Large node hours per month
750 hours of single Availability Zone dms.t2.micro instance usage
50 GB of included general purpose (SSD) storage
750 hours of cache.t2micro node usage
750 hours of MemoryDB on t4g.small instances per month
10 TB of data written per month for Valkey
20 GB of data written per month for Redis OSS
750 hours of Amazon DocumentDB on t3.medium instances
5 GB of storage and backup storage
30M IOs
50 GB of Ingestion
750 GB-hours of Memory store usage
100 GB of Magnetic store usage
24 TCU-hours for queries
Learn more about Databases with AWS
-
Videos
-
Tutorials
-
Videos
-
Understanding Amazon RDS
How Trimble Successfully Migrated to the Cloud
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
AWS Databases: Break Free to Save, Grow, and Innovate Faster
-
Tutorials
-
10-Minute Tutorials
Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS database services
Create and Connect to a MySQL Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an environment to run your MySQL database (we call this environment an 'instance'), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything done in this tutorial is free-tier eligible.
Create and Query a NoSQL Table
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple table, add data, scan and query the data, delete data, and delete the table by using the DynamoDB console. DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database that supports both document and key-value store models. Its flexible data model, reliable performance, and auto scaling of throughput capacity make it a great fit for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT, and other applications. Everything in this tutorial is free-tier eligible.
Create and Connect to a Microsoft SQL Server Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Microsoft SQL Server database instance (we call this a 'DB instance'), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything in this tutorial is free tier eligible.
Create and Connect to a PostgreSQL Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an environment to run your MariaDB database (we call this environment an 'instance'), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything in this tutorial is free tier eligible.
AWS Free Tier
The AWS Free Tier offers users an opportunity to explore products for free, with offers including products that are always free, free for 12 months, and short-term free trials.
Get Started
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