db.r4.large pricing and specs in US East (N. Virginia)
2 vCPU · 15.25 GiB · Up to 10 Gigabit · Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) previous generation
$0.2400/hour on-demand · $175/month (MySQL, Single-AZ)
db.r4.large is a memory-optimized RDS instance with 2 vCPU and 15.25 GiB, generation 4 of the r family; AWS lists it as a previous generation. On-demand it costs $0.2400 an hour, about $175 a month if it runs all month. The newer db.r6g.large offers the same size for $0.2150 an hour, 10% less and moves to Graviton. US East (N. Virginia) is already the cheapest region for db.r4.large.
Pricing by engine (hourly, USD, Single-AZ)
| Option | MySQL | PostgreSQL | MariaDB | Aurora MySQL | Aurora PostgreSQL | Oracle SE2 | SQL Server Express | SQL Server Web | SQL Server Standard | SQL Server Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $0.2400 | $0.2500 | $0.2400 | $0.2900 | $0.2900 | $0.4892 | — | $0.4600 | $1.0200 | — |
Newer generations of the same size
Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.
Graviton-eligible → db.r6g.large (-10%)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| db.r6g.large Graviton arch change | $0.2150 | -10% | +12% | $18 |
| db.r8g.large Graviton arch change | $0.2390 | -0.4% | +0.4% | $1 |
| db.r7g.large Graviton arch change | $0.2390 | -0.4% | +0.4% | $1 |
| db.r6i.large | $0.2400 | 0.0% | 0.0% | $0 |
| db.r5.large | $0.2400 | 0.0% | 0.0% | $0 |
| db.r7i.large | $0.2500 | +4% | -4% | $-7 |
| db.r6gd.large Graviton arch change | $0.2570 | +7% | -7% | $-12 |
| db.r8gd.large Graviton arch change | $0.2730 | +14% | -12% | $-24 |
Cheapest regions for db.r4.large
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-east-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.2400 | current | — |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $0.2400 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.2400 | 0.0% | $0 |
| Canada (Central) ca-central-1 | $0.2600 | +8% | $-15 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $0.2650 | +10% | $-18 |
| US West (N. California) us-west-1 | $0.2650 | +10% | $-18 |
Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.
Price history (us-east-1)
Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.
| Date | OD MySQL | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $0.2400 | — | — | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 2
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 15.25 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 7.62 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.3 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Previous
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Up to 10 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- —
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- —
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- —
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 400.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- —
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- — / —
- Dedicated hosts
- —
- Boot modes
- —
- Spot supported
- —
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-11-06). RI and Savings Plan rates are effective hourly (upfront amortised over the term) and are charged for every hour of the term. Excludes taxes, data transfer and storage. How these numbers are sourced and checked. Not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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