db.r6g.largevsdb.r6gd.large

db.r6g.large is 12% cheaper than db.r6gd.large on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $23.36 a month.

At a glancedb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
On-demand$0.225/hr12% less$0.257/hr
Lowest rate$0.1298/hr34% less1-yr reserved, no upfront$0.198/hr1-yr reserved, no upfront
Size2 vCPUs, 16 GiB2 vCPUs, 16 GiB
Architecturearm64arm64

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. PostgreSQL, USD per hour.

Optiondb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.largedb.r6gd.large vs db.r6g.large
On-demandPay by the hour$0.225$0.257▲ 14%
1-yr reservedNo upfront42% off$0.129823% off$0.198▲ 53%

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where db.r6g.large leads
On-demand price$0.225 vs $0.257 per hour
12% cheaper
Where db.r6gd.large leads

No clear lead on the measures we compare.

Specs

9 of 25 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute1 of 8 differdb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
vCPUs22
Physical cores22
Threads per core11
Architecturearm64arm64
Processor–AWS Graviton2
CPU makerAWSAWS
Sustained clock2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
BurstableNoNo
MemoryAll 1 matchdb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
Memory (GiB)1616
Networking1 of 3 differdb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
Network–Up to 10 Gigabit
Network baseline0.75 Gbps0.75 Gbps
Network peak10 Gbps10 Gbps
Storage2 of 8 differdb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
Storage–1 x 118 NVMe SSD
Local disks–1 × 118 GB SSD
EBS baseline bandwidth630 Mbps630 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth4,750 Mbps4,750 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput78.75 MB/s78.75 MB/s
EBS max throughput593.75 MB/s593.75 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS3,6003,600
EBS max IOPS20,00020,000
Instance details4 of 4 differdb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
Familyr6gr6gd
Category–Memory optimized
Current generation–Yes
Normalization factor48
Other1 of 1 differdb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.large
Hardware Basisr6g.larger6gd.large

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for db.r6g.large first. PostgreSQL, USD per hour.

Regiondb.r6g.largedb.r6gd.largeDifference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$0.225$0.257▲ 14%
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$0.225$0.257▲ 14%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$0.225$0.257▲ 14%
Asia Pacific (Malaysia)ap-southeast-5$0.23$0.263▲ 14%
Asia Pacific (Thailand)ap-southeast-7$0.23$0.263▲ 14%
Mexico (Central)mx-central-1$0.236$0.27▲ 14%
Asia Pacific (Taipei)ap-east-2$0.243$0.278▲ 14%
Canada (Central)ca-central-1$0.243$0.278▲ 14%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$0.252$0.286▲ 13%
Europe (Spain)eu-south-2$0.252$0.286▲ 13%
US West (N. California)us-west-1$0.252$0.293▲ 16%
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1$0.256$0.294▲ 15%
EU (Paris)eu-west-3$0.264$0.302▲ 14%
Israel (Tel Aviv)il-central-1$0.265$0.3▲ 13%
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)ap-southeast-3$0.27$0.309▲ 14%
Asia Pacific (Osaka)ap-northeast-3$0.27$0.3091▲ 14%
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1$0.27$0.309▲ 14%
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2$0.27$0.311▲ 15%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$0.27$0.309▲ 14%
AWS GovCloud (US-East)us-gov-east-1$0.27$0.309▲ 14%
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1$0.27$0.309▲ 14%
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$0.274$0.311▲ 14%
Europe (Zurich)eu-central-2$0.301$0.3415▲ 13%

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AWS RDS PostgreSQL prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.