Azure Database for PostgreSQL pricing
Enterprise-ready fully managed community PostgreSQL
- No upfront cost
- No termination fees
- Pay only for what you use
- Per-hour billing
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a fully managed database as a service with built-in capabilities, such as high availability and intelligence. You can continue to use languages and frameworks of your choice with no upfront costs. Only pay for what you use with reserved capacity pricing now available.
Reserved capacity pricing now available – save up to 60 per cent compared to the regular pay-as-you-go payment options
Flexible and transparent pricing
Scale compute and storage independently based on your workload. Pay only for what you use.
Optimise your cost
Save up to 60% compared to pay-as-you-go options with reserved capacity.
Reduce total cost of ownership with burstable instances and Stop/Start capabilities so when the database is stopped, you only pay for storage.
Choice of deployment option
Meet your database management and customisation needs with deployment options including Single Server, Flexible Server (Preview) and Hyperscale.
Explore all Azure Database for PostgreSQL pricing options
Find the deployment option and price that fits your workload
Single Server is a preconfigured database server and is best for workloads where the database have minimal customisation requirements including:
- Automatic database patching and maintenance
- Built-in high availability with 99.99% SLA
Learn more about Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server
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US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners who have already purchased this, doing business in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure trial.
Basic
Workloads requiring light compute and I/O performance.
Compute
Compute is provisioned in virtual cores (vCores). A vCore represents a logical CPU.
Compute Gen 5
Gen 5 logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz processors.
| vCore | Memory | Pay as you go |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 GiB | $- |
| 2 | 4 GiB | $- |
Storage
You are charged for the storage that you provision for your server. Storage can be provisioned up to 1 TB.
| Price | |
|---|---|
| GB/month | $- |
Backup
Backup storage is the storage associated with automated backups of your server. Increasing your backup retention period increases the backup storage that is consumed by your server. There is no additional charge for backup storage for up to 100% of your total provisioned server storage. Additional consumption of backup storage will be charged in GB/month.
| Price | |
|---|---|
| Locally redundant GB/month | $- |
Read replica
Read replicas allow read-heavy workloads to scale out beyond the capacity of a single Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. For each read replica you create, you are billed for the provisioned compute in vCores and provisioned storage in GB/month.
General Purpose
Most business workloads requiring balanced compute and memory with scalable I/O throughput.
Compute
Compute is provisioned in virtual cores (vCores). A vCore represents a logical CPU.
Compute Gen 5
Gen 5 logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz processors.
| vCore | Memory | Pay as you go | One year reserved (% Savings) |
Three years reserved (% Savings) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 10 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 4 | 20 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 8 | 40 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 16 | 80 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 32 | 160 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 64 | 320 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
Storage
You are charged for the storage that you provision for your server. Storage can be provisioned up to 16 TB*.
| Price | |
|---|---|
| GB/month | $- |
Backup
Backup storage is the storage associated with automated backups of your server. Increasing your backup retention period increases the backup storage that is consumed by your server. There is no additional charge for backup storage for up to 100% of your total provisioned server storage. Additional consumption of backup storage will be charged in GB/month.
| Price | |
|---|---|
| Locally redundant GB/month | $- |
| Geographically redundant GB/month | $- |
Read replica
Read replicas allow read-heavy workloads to scale out beyond the capacity of a single Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. For each read replica you create, you are billed for the provisioned compute in vCores and provisioned storage in GB/month.
Memory Optimised
High-performance database workloads requiring in-memory performance for faster transaction processing and higher concurrency.
Compute
Compute is provisioned in virtual cores (vCores). A vCore represents a logical CPU.
Compute Gen 5
Gen 5 logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz processors.
| vCore | Memory | Pay as you go | One year reserved (% Savings) |
Three years reserved (% Savings) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 20 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 4 | 40 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 8 | 80 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 16 | 160 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
| 32 | 320 GiB | $- | $- | $- |
Storage
You are charged for the storage that you provision for your server. Storage can be provisioned up to 16 TB*.
| Price | |
|---|---|
| GB/month | $- |
Backup
Backup storage is the storage associated with automated backups of your server. Increasing your backup retention period increases the backup storage that is consumed by your server. There is no additional charge for backup storage for up to 100% of your total provisioned server storage. Additional consumption of backup storage will be charged in GB/month.
| Price | |
|---|---|
| Locally redundant GB/month | $- |
| Geographically redundant GB/month | $- |
Read replica
Read replicas allow read-heavy workloads to scale out beyond the capacity of a single Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. For each read replica you create, you are billed for the provisioned compute in vCores and provisioned storage in GB/month.
Advanced Threat Protection (Preview)
For more information on Advanced Threat Protection, please visit the Azure Security Center pricing page.
Support and SLA
- Free billing and subscription management support
- Flexible support plans starting at $29/month. Find a plan
- We guarantee that apps running in a customer subscription will be available 99.99% of the time. Read the SLA
FAQ
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The Basic tier is designed for workloads requiring light compute and I/O performance. Examples include servers used for development or testing, or small-scale infrequently used applications. General Purpose is for most business workloads requiring balanced compute and memory with scalable I/O throughput. Examples include servers for hosting web and mobile apps, and other enterprise applications. The Memory Optimised tier is for high-performance database workloads requiring in-memory performance for faster transaction processing and higher concurrency. Examples include servers for processing real-time data and high-performance transactional or analytical apps. Please review the documentation for more details.
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For all tiers, the service is billed on a predictable, hourly rate based on pricing tier, provisioned compute in vCores, and provisioned storage in GB/month for your server and backups. On your bill, vCore hours, storage GB/month for the server and storage GB/month for backups will have separate line items.
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You are billed for each hour or portion thereof that a PostgreSQL server exists, regardless of whether the server was active for the full hour. If you have scaled your database, you will be billed using the highest pricing tier, provisioned vCore and provisioned storage during the hour.
For example:
- If you create a PostgreSQL server and delete it after five minutes, you are charged for one full hour for the provisioned compute and storage.
- If you create a PostgreSQL server in the General Purpose tier with 8 vCores and then immediately upgrade it to 16 vCores in the General Purpose tier, you are charged at the 16 vCore rate for the first hour.
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Yes. From 1 July 2018, standard charges will apply for network egress. Look here for more details.
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Backup storage is the storage associated with automated backups of your server. Increasing your backup retention period increases the backup storage that is consumed by your PostgreSQL server. There is no additional charge for backup storage for up to 100% of your total provisioned server storage. Additional consumption of backup storage will be charged in GB/month. For example, if you have the database storage size of 100 GB, you will get 100 GB of backup at no additional cost. However, if the backup is 110 GB, you will pay for the 10 GB.
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Reserved capacity allows you to reserve compute power for your Hyperscale (Citus) server groups. This pricing option enables savings of up to 45 per cent for 1-year, and up to 65 per cent for 3-years compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
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