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Amazon Aurora

Partially Agent-Ready
Agent-Ready SaaS Index · aws.amazon.com · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 47 / 100
Database Management
Free tier
Self-serve checkout
Public API

Amazon Aurora scores 47/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available.

See Amazon Aurora pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
Amazon Aurora pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/
Free tier
Free
Up to 4 ACUs
1 GiB storage
No charge for read/write I/O
On‑Demand
Contact sales
Pay per instance‑hour
CPU credits $0.09 per vCPU‑hour
Reserved 1‑yr
Contact sales
Up to 45% discount vs on‑demand
Commitment for 1 year
Reserved 3‑yr
Contact sales
Up to 66% discount vs on‑demand
Commitment for 3 years
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How Amazon Aurora scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing visibility

15 / 15

Self-serve checkout

15 / 15

Public API + docs

0 / 20

Usage-based / metered pricing

0 / 20

Free entry path

5 / 7

No sales call required

7 / 7

Card / wallet / x402 payment

5 / 6

Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)

0 / 10

Total
47 / 100
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Agent-ready
LLM score: 85/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

Yes

Can upgrade plan

Yes

Can buy more usage

Yes

Can cancel online

Yes

Payment methods

card
invoice

Human approval recommended

No

Pricing transparency

full

Purchase motion

self_serve

Demo required

No

Quote required

No

Annual commit required

Yes

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

No

Refund policy visible

No

Minimum term

12 months

Invoice payment available

Yes

Purchase orders supported

Yes

MSA required

No

DPA available

Yes

Security review required

Yes

Trial

Available

Startup credits

$100 AWS credits at sign‑up, plus an additional $100

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem

Buyer persona

smb
mid market
enterprise
developer

Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Amazon Aurora?
✓

Discover price

◐

Select a plan

✗

Pay per task

✗

Avoid a sales call

✗

API docs without auth

✗

Estimate cost upfront

Analysis
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.
✓ For an AI agent
  • Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
  • A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
  • All advertised tiers route to a sales contact form; an agent cannot complete a purchase autonomously.
  • API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
  • PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How Amazon Aurora could lift its score

Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Amazon Aurora pricing — For Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL

tier_count

4

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

true

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

null

annual_required

false

self_serve_paid_tiers

3

sales_only_tiers

0

public_api_docs_url

https://builder.aws.com/

api_docs_auth_walled

false

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

null

usage_headline_present

false

custom_tier_present

true

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":false,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

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Page heading: Amazon Aurora pricing
CTAs (40): Skip to main content · Filter: All · English · Contact us · AWS Marketplace · Support · My account · Search · Sign in to console · Create account · Overview · Features
Price tokens (5): $100 · $100 · $200 · $0.09 per vCPU-Hour for both · $0.09 per vCPU-Hour for both
Skip to main content Filter: All English Contact us AWS Marketplace Support My account Search Filter: All Sign in to console Create account Amazon Aurora Overview Engines Features Pricing Resources More Amazon RDS Amazon Aurora Pricing Amazon Aurora pricing For Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL Get started with Aurora Connect with an Aurora specialist With Aurora, you only pay for what you use. Aurora charges for database instances and storage, along with any optional features you choose to enable. Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL offer On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing. Aurora DSQL has a serverless pricing model, and you can learn more on Aurora DSQL pricing page. New AWS customers can get started with Aurora PostgreSQL serverless at no cost with the AWS Free Tier. You get $100 in AWS credits at sign-up to be used across eligible AWS services, including Aurora, for up to 12 months, in both Free and Paid plans, and you can earn an additional $100 in credits, for a total of $200. Free plan gives you access to Aurora PostgreSQL serverless instances with up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster. You can upgrade to the Paid plan at any time to increase capacity up to 256 ACUs and automatically scale storage up to 256 TiB. Your Aurora usage may be eligible for Database Savings Plans, a flexible pricing model that offers savings in exchange for a commitment to a specific amount of usage (measured in $/hour) over a 1-year term. You can learn more about eligible usage o…
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Agent-Ready Spec
Amazon Aurora
Partially Agent-Ready

47

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Database Management

Pricing model

Amazon Aurora pricing — For Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL

Tier count

4

Free tier

Yes

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

3 / 0

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/
Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Agent-ready
85/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

Amazon Aurora pricing starts at $0/mo for the free tier serverless plan; paid usage is billed per instance‑hour or per ACU‑second, with on‑demand rates and optional reserved‑instance discounts.

Cheapest entry

Free tier (Serverless) (Free)

Actions
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Verdict reflects Partially Agent-Ready status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/.
Agent-friendly features0 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

x402 / MPP

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