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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

_

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

_

Yes Yes

Connections

5

500

Unlimited

Backup locality

_

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

_

_

Yes

Private endpoint

_

Yes Yes

VPC

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Yes Yes

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 Warehouse SaaS
Db2 Warehouse SaaS on IBM Cloud Starter

Flex One
A starter data warehouse designed for new data warehouse projects and growing enterprises, with the ability to independently scale compute and storage

Storage Optimized

Flex
An MPP data warehouse ideal for cost-effective data warehousing, dev/test environment, infrequently accessed data

Compute Optimized

An MPP data warehouse idea for high-performance and production workloads

Architecture

SMP (single node)

MPP (massively parallel processing)

MPP (massively parallel processing)

Configuration

Dedicated compute and storage

Dedicated compute and storage

Dedicated compute and storage

Price

Starting at USD 898 per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

  • Instance: USD 1.23 per hour
  • Storage: USD 0.66 per GB
  • Compute: USD 65.70 per vCPU
Get USD 1000 in free credits

Staring at USD 2957 per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

  • Instance: USD 4.85 per hour
  • Storage: USD 0.91 per GB
  • Compute: USD 127.75 per vCPU

Starting at USD 13,651 per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

  • Instance: USD 18.7 per hour
  • Storage: USD 1.15 per GB
  • Compute: USD 150.87 per vCPU

Starting instance capacity

6 vCPUs and 40 GB storage

16 vCPUs and 960 GB storage

48 vCPUs and 2.4 TB storage

Compute capacity

Up to 28 cores

Up to 160 cores

Up to 672 cores

Storage capacity

Up to 8 TB (4 IOPS/GB)

Up to 600 TB (6 IOPS/GB)

Up to 600 TB (12 IOPS/GB)

Independently scale storage and compute

Yes Yes Yes

Included backups

7  backups

7  backups

7  backups

Backup locality

_

Single region

Multi-zone, single or cross region

Private endpoint

Yes Yes Yes

Db2 Warehouse SaaS on AWS 

Architecture

MPP

Configuration

Dedicated compute and storage

Price

Starting at USD 1,373 per month (billed hourly):

Hourly rates:

  • Compute: USD 0.25/vCPU per hour
  • Block Storage: USD 1.58/TB per hour
  • Object Storage: USD 0.05/TB per hour
Get USD 1000 in free credits

License savings*

*Following further discounts apply to compute:

  • Bring-your-own-license (BYOL): 28%
  • Appliance (Sailfish/IIAS): 51%
  • Reserve Instance:
    • 1 year: 26%
    • 3 years: 44%

Starting instance capacity

32 vCPU and 400 GB storage

Compute capacity

Up to 5760 vCPU

Storage capacity

  • Block storage: Up to 600 TB (12 IOPS/GB)
  • Object storage: Infinite

Independently scale storage and compute

Yes

Private endpoint

Yes
Db2 Database Software

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

Db2 Database Software

Community Edition

Entry-level edition for developer and partner community, ideal for new projects with Db2

Standard Edition

Ideal for organizations that need an always-on, high-performance relational database


Ideal for enterprises that run the most demanding mission-critical workloads, with extreme concurrency and uptime

Starting instance capacity

4 cores, 16 GB Memory

16 cores, 128 GB Memory

No limits

High availability and disaster recovery

Yes Yes Yes

Deploy Db2 on multiple compute nodes across data centers and regions for maximum availability and uptime

Yes Yes Yes

Performance and scalability

Query optimization, multi-dimensional clustering, database and table partitioning, compression, workload management

Yes Yes Yes

Advanced security

Native encryption, row and column access control with data masking, bitemporal table support

Yes Yes Yes

App development support


Drivers, code samples, and REST API support for app development

Yes Yes Yes

Tools


Db2 Management Console for DBAs, IDE plugins for developers

Yes Yes Yes
Db2 Warehouse Software

The high-performance data warehouse that combines in-memory columnar processing with in-database analytics and scaling of your OLAP use cases. On-premises or in your private cloud. 

- In-memory analytics
- Built-in ML
- Continual data ingestion for low-latency analytics
- Always-on security, backups and customer support

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