Build Modern Applications with Free Databases on AWS

Free offers and services you need to build, deploy, and run database applications in the cloud

Product Benefits

AWS provides the broadest selection of purpose-built databases allowing you to save, grow, and innovate faster.

Choose from 15+ purpose-built database engines including relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, wide column, and ledger databases.

Get relational databases that are 3-5X faster than popular alternatives, or non-relational databases that give you microsecond to sub-millisecond latency.

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.

AWS databases are built for business-critical, enterprise workloads, offering high availability, reliability, and security.

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Free Product Offers

Build database solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

Product
Description
Free Tier Offer Details
Product Pricing

HAQM Neptune

Graph Database Service

Fully managed, high-performance graph database using popular open-source APIs such as Gremlin, SPARQL and openCypher.

 

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

HAQM Neptune Pricing

HAQM RDS

Managed Relational Database Service

 

 

 


HAQM 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

HAQM RDS Pricing








HAQM DynamoDB

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

HAQM DynamoDB Pricing

HAQM Redshift

Data Warehouse

Fast, simple, cost-effective data warehousing.

2-MONTH FREE TRIAL

750 DC2.Large node hours per month

HAQM Redshift Pricing

AWS Database Migration Service

Database Migration

Migrate databases with minimal downtime.

ALWAYS FREE

750 hours of HAQM DMS single Availability Zone dms.t2.micro instance usage

50 GB of included general purpose (SSD) storage

AWS Database Migration Service Pricing

HAQM ElastiCache

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

HAQM ElastiCache Pricing

HAQM MemoryDB

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

HAQM MemoryDB Pricing

HAQM DocumentDB

Managed Document Database Service

 

A scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB.

30 DAY FREE TRIAL

750 hours of HAQM 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

HAQM DocumentDB Pricing

HAQM 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

HAQM Timestream for LiveAnalytics Pricing
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Free Product Offers

Build database solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

HAQM EC2
HAQM Neptune
Fully managed, high-performance graph database service.
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

HAQM Neptune Pricing »
HAQM Lightsail
HAQM RDS
Managed relational database service.
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

HAQM RDS Pricing »
Elastic Load Balancing
HAQM DynamoDB
NoSQL database service.
ALWAYS FREE

25 GB of storage

25 units of write capacity

25 units of read capacity

HAQM DynamoDB Pricing »
AWS Lambda
HAQM Redshift
Fast, simple, cost-effective data warehousing.
2-MONTH FREE TRIAL

750 DC2.Large node hours per month

HAQM Redshift Pricing »
AWS Lambda
AWS Database Migration Service
Migrate databases with minimal downtime.
ALWAYS FREE

750 hours of single Availability Zone dms.t2.micro instance usage

50 GB of included general purpose (SSD) storage

AWS Database Migration Service Pricing »
AWS Lambda
HAQM ElastiCache
Managed, in-memory data store service
12 MONTHS FREE

750 hours of cache.t2micro node usage

HAQM ElastiCache Pricing »
AWS Lambda
HAQM MemoryDB
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

HAQM MemoryDB Pricing »
AWS Lambda
HAQM DocumentDB
Scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service.
30 DAY FREE TRIAL

750 hours of HAQM DocumentDB on t3.medium instances

5 GB of storage and backup storage

30M IOs

HAQM DocumentDB Pricing »
HAQM Timestream for LiveAnalytics
Fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database
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

HAQM Timestream for LiveAnalytics Pricing »
AWS Lambda
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Learn more about Databases with AWS

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS

  • Videos
  • Understanding HAQM Relational Database Service (RDS) (1:53)
    How Trimble Successfully Migrated Their Databases to the Cloud (3:13)
    What is HAQM DynamoDB? (1:01)
    AWS Databases: Break Free to Save, Grow, and Innovate Faster (2:02)
  • 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 HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and everything done in this tutorial is free-tier eligible.

    Learn more »

    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.

    Learn more »

    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 HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and everything in this tutorial is free tier eligible.

    Learn more »

    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 HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and everything in this tutorial is free tier eligible.

    Learn more »

Learn more about Databases with AWS

  • Videos
  • Understanding HAQM RDS
    How Trimble Successfully Migrated to the Cloud
    What is HAQM 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 HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM 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 HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM 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 HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM 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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