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Database

Amazon DocumentDB

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Billing mirrors Aurora: instance-hours, cluster storage, and I/O per million.

What gets missed

Cross-AZ replication inside a multi-AZ cluster is free. Elastic clusters bill vCPU-hours rather than instance-hours and Serverless bills DCU-hours, and an I/O-Optimized option removes the I/O meter entirely.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • InstanceUsage
  • InstanceUsageIOOptimized
  • StorageIOUsage
  • ElasticCPUUsage

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.