# Amazon RDS Pricing 2026 | Capterra > Learn more about Amazon RDS pricing plans including starting price, free versions and trials. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/pricing --- # Pricing for Amazon RDS [4.7 (218)](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/) Write a Review! ## [Amazon RDS](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/) has **1** pricing plan - Yes, has free trial - Yes, has free version **Credit Card Required:** Not provided by vendor **Discount:** Information not available ### Basic $0.01 **Pricing Model:** Per Feature **Payment Frequency:** Per Month Basic plan includes: Not available ## Popular alternatives to [Amazon RDS](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/) Looking to learn more about Database software similar to Amazon RDS? Check out these popular alternatives that are closest in terms of key features, functionality, and benefits. 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Pricing Rating $ $ $ $ $ Value For Money[4.3(218)](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/) Pros Cons [Read All 218 Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/) Read Full Reviews Below Prateek G. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees Used the software for: 2+ years ** Overall Rating 4.0 ** Ease of Use 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 Features 4.0 Value for Money 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 80% 8/10 Reviewer Source Source: Capterra January 7, 2026 "One of the best managed services for Postgres" **Overall:** Overall the experience has been wonderful with RDS. Given that it's managed service it serves you really well with High Availability, Disaster recovery, Replication The Blue green deployment is also a really good feature for testing out schema related or major version changes. This was really helpful when moving away from Older versions of Postgres for larger DBs Reserved Instances is another option you can use to save some dollars if you know about your workloads **Pros:** I've mainly used Amazon RDS for Postgres so can't speak for other database engines. For Postgres the most liked thing about RDS is how quickly they make the major versions available. You don't have to wait too long to try out latest Postgres updates when you are with RDS **Cons:** Couple of drawbacks with RDS I've seen over the years - there is not a great way to enable encryption if you started of with an unencrypted database. You need to create a new database and migrate all your data - same applies for reducing storage of the database, you can increase the storage but cannot lower the storage - columnar extensions are not made available on RDS - Richard R. IT Support Analyst Real Estate, 11-50 employees Used the software for: 1-2 years ** Overall Rating 5.0 ** Ease of Use 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 Features 5.0 Value for Money 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 90% 9/10 Reviewer Source Source: Capterra May 30, 2025 "Simple solution to rapidly implement new platforms" **Overall:** Overall, a simple way to start testing/piloting new applications with minimal support required. Ease of use, access, and speed to deploy. We also had issues migrating out of AWS due to a supplier changing platforms, we needed to migrate to MS Azure. **Pros:** Ease of setup. Configuration and out-of-the-box setups allowed for the rapid testing and then replication and rollout across the business. Reduction in management tasks such as, automation of tasks, provisioning, patching, backups and Recovery. Failover with alerts to a reporting platform ensures issues are dealt with in a timely manner. **Cons:** On the odd occasion, we have had trouble diagnosing a performance issue, and access/management control. In particular, Lack of OS and Database Root Access. While RDS supports popular database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB), the way AWS manages them introduces some proprietary elements. **Switched From:** [Microsoft 365](https://www.capterra.com/p/227157/Microsoft-365/) **Reasons for Switching to Amazon RDS:** More ease of use, better setupand suppliers recommended [Read All 218 Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/) ## How should I be thinking about software pricing? [ Be an Informed Buyer: Understanding the True Cost of Business Software It's not just you-budgeting for business software is complicated. We're here to break it down. ](https://www.capterra.com/resources/business-software-cost/)