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Db2 Database SaaS
Db2 Database SaaS on IBM Cloud

Free

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

Standard 

The Db2 Database, deployed on shared infrastructure, ideal for new projects, growing workloads or dev/test databases

 

The Db2 Database, deployed on dedicated compute slices, ideal for enterprises small and large

Configuration

Serverless trial configuration with single schema

Multi-tenant or shared infrastructure

Dedicated compute and storage

Price

Try it free

Starting at USD 99* per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

  • Instance: USD 0.142* per hour
  • Storage: USD 0.000282* per GB
  • Compute: USD 0.101* per vCPU

Starting at USD 969* per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

  • Instance: USD 1.36* per hour
  • Storage: USD 0.000282* per GB
  • Compute: USD 0.314* per vCPU

Starting instance capacity

200 MB storage

2 vCPUs and 20 GB storage

4 vCPUs and 20 GB storage

Compute capacity

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Up to 16vCPU (virtual)

  • Up to 56vCPU (virtual)
  • Up to 96 CPU (bare metal)

Storage capacity

Up to 200 MB

Up to 4 TB (10 IOPS/GB)

Up to 24 TB (10 IOPS/GB)

Independently scale storage and compute

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Yes Yes

Connections

5

500

Unlimited

Backup locality

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Single region

Multi-zone, single or cross region

Physical servers available

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Yes

Cross-AZ 1 or 3 HA nodes

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Yes Yes

Cross-region DR node

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Yes

Private endpoint

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Yes Yes

VPC

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Yes Yes

*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 (link resides outside ibm.com) to estimate instance sizes.

Use the Amazon Pricing Calculator–RDS for Db2 to estimate instance sizes.

Amazon RDS for Db2 Pricing
Db2 Database Software

Platforms supported: Linux (x64, Power, Z), AIX, Windows x64

Community Edition

Db2 Starter

Db2 Standard

Db2 Advanced

Db2 Warehouse

Pricing

Download Db2

Use case

Free entry point to help kick start new apps and services

Core capabilities for new apps and services

Production-ready, business-critical applications

Fully-featured for mission-critical workloads

Production-ready, analytical workloads

Resource limits

  • 4 CPU cores
  • 8 GB memory
  • 4 CPU core
  • 16 GB memory
  • 16 CPU cores 
  • 128 GB memory

Unlimited

Unlimited

Deployment

Single-node

Single-node  

Single or multi-node for HA/DR

 Single or multi-node

Multi-node

Workload type

Transactional

Transactional

Transactional & Analytics

Transactional & Analytics

Analytics

Support

Community Support

Enterprise Support

 

Enterprise Support

 

Enterprise Support

 

Enterprise Support

 

Db2 native encryption & audit

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Db2 HADR
(High availability & disaster recovery)

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Db2 Federation

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

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Db2 pureScale

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Db2 Database Partitioning Feature
(DPF) for Data Warehousing

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