Fully managed graph database service

Reduce Amazon Neptune costs with these tips

Amazon Neptune cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon Neptune costs with these tips

Analyze DB Usage

Analyze Neptune's database usage patterns and adjust instance type, storage size and IOPS accordingly. Use smaller instance types during non-peak periods to reduce costs.

Use Reserved Capacity

Leverage Neptune's reserved capacity for predictable workloads to get discounts compared to on-demand pricing. However, it requires a 1 or 3 year term commitment.

Integrate Other Services

Integrate services like Amazon DynamoDB or S3 for temporary or archival data storage. This helps right-size your Neptune storage capacity resulting in minimizing costs.

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Service information & pricing

About Amazon Neptune

About Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune is a high-performance graph analytics and serverless database with superior scalability. It can manage unlimited vertices and edges, up to 100,000 queries per second, and 128TiB storage per cluster. It ensures security with ACID transactions, automatic backups, and encryption. It also supports disaster recovery and local reading through Amazon Neptune Global Database, ideal for large-scale graph data analysis.

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Amazon Neptune pricing

Amazon Neptune provides a serverless graph database, Neptune Database, and an analytics database, Neptune Analytics. Neptune Database has no initial costs, it's cost is calculated hourly. Neptune Analytics pricing is based on Neptune Capacity Units (m-NCUs), equalling 1 GB memory/hour. Configurations range from 128 to 4,096 m-NCUs with free storage and I/O. A free Neptune Database trial is available until April 20, 2022 for new users, offering 750 hours and 1 GB of storage and backup.

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