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  • 1.  AWS RDS for Db2 licence cost

    Posted Thu March 20, 2025 09:34 AM

    Hi all, in the AWS Marketplace, the hourly rate for on demand Advanced Edition of RDS for Db2 is $7.04 per VPC hour (1 VPC==2 vCPUs).

    How do I estimate the cost for a large instance, (48 vCPUs); simple maths shows this as 730*24*7.04= $123K per month

    This can't be right, what am I doing wrong?



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    Stephen Goss
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  • 2.  RE: AWS RDS for Db2 licence cost

    Posted Thu March 20, 2025 10:39 AM

    I'm no AWS expert but isn't the cost also based on some kind of usage?

    Could VPC hour mean that those CPUs are running at full throttle for a whole hour?



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    Michael Volz
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  • 3.  RE: AWS RDS for Db2 licence cost

    Posted Fri March 21, 2025 04:31 AM

    Hi Stephen,

    That certainly sounds like a lot of money :-(

    Have you tried using the AWS Pricing Calculator ( https://calculator.aws/#/ ) yet?
    If you set it up with the required DB2 RDS service (and anything else you may need), it should give you a monthly price estimate
    (I haven't tried this, TBH, so just wondering if it will give you a more reasonable number).

    Kind regards, Damir



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    Damir Wilder
    Senior Consultant
    Triton Consulting
    London
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  • 4.  RE: AWS RDS for Db2 licence cost

    Posted Fri March 21, 2025 12:13 PM

    I think your math may be off.
    I think it would be 730*7.04=5139.20

    I think what you did was 
    (365 days in a year * 24 Hours in a day)/12 months in a year = Your 730 hours in a month. 
    But you trying to times it by 24 hours again? 




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    Jerry Sutton
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  • 5.  RE: AWS RDS for Db2 licence cost

    Posted Mon March 24, 2025 01:57 AM

    I think '24' in the original expression represents the 48 vCPU (a large instance), which comes from the assumption that 1 VPC==2 vCPUs. 

    730*24*7.04= $123K per month. 



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    Su Li Hou
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