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Db2 Database SaaS 

Db2 Database SaaS on IBM Cloud

Current Generation

Plan

Free

Discover and try the Db2 database through a perpetually free product tier

Performance

The Db2 database, deployed on dedicated compute slices, ideal for all workloads

Configuration

Serverless trial configuration with single schema

Dedicated compute and storage

Price

 

 

 

 

 

Try it free

Starting at USD 630* per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

Storage: USD 0.000138* per GB

Compute: USD 0.22 or USD 0.29* per vCPU

Total IOPS: USD 0.000078 per IOP

Starting Instance Capacity

 

200 MB storage

4 vCPUs and 50 GB storage

Compute Capacity

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Up to 128vCPU (virtual)

Storage Capacity

Up to 200MB

 

Up to 40TB and 196K IOPS

Independently scale storage and compute

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Yes

Connections

5

Unlimited

Backup locality

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Multi-zone, Single or Cross Region

Physical servers available

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Cross-AZ HA nodes 

 

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2

Cross-region DR node

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Available

Private Endpoint

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Available

VPC

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Included

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.

Amazon RDS for Db2

Amazon RDS for Db2 is a fully managed database service that makes it easy to set up, manage and scale a Db2 relational database on the AWS cloud. The service supports Db2 Standard Edition and Db2 Advanced Edition with a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) program. All editions of Db2 on Amazon RDS for Db2 provide:

  • push-button scaling to manage infrastructure costs with a few clicks or an API call;
  • automated backups, snapshots and failover to support durability of business-critical workloads;
  • availability and reliability with high availability and automated Multi-AZ data replication;
  • isolation and security including encryption in motion and at rest, network isolation and permissions; and
  • native integrations with AWS Cloud Services as a core AWS offering to support cloud native applications

Start your deployment today or use the Amazon Pricing Calculator–RDS for Db2 to estimate instance sizes.

Amazon RDS for Db2 Pricing
Db2 12.1 AI Editions

Category

Db2 AI Community

 

Db2 AI Standard

 

Db2 AI Advanced

Pricing

Download Db2

Use case

Free entry point to help kick start new apps and services

Production-ready, business-critical applications

 

Fully-featured for mission-critical workloads

License metrics

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VPC: Prod and Non-prod AU: Non-prod only

VPC: Prod and Non-prod AU: Non-prod only AU (Sub Only): Prod for Non-prod

License types

Community

Standalone: Perpetual and Monthly Cartridge: Perpetual and Subscription

Standalone: Perpetual and Monthly Cartridge: Perpetual and Subscription

Resource limits

4 CPU cores
16 GB Memory

16 CPU cores
128 GB Memory

Unlimited

Support

Community Support

Enterprise Support

 

Enterprise Support

 

Db2 native encryption & audit

Db2 HADR
(High availability & disaster recovery)

Db2 Federation

Db2 Backup & Restore
(Point-in-time recovery)

Db2 Database Partitioning Feature

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Db2 pureScale

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