Connect CostTrail with Amazon RDS to track, analyze, and optimize your relational database costs across instance types, engines, and deployment options.
Unleash powerful cost management capabilities by integrating CostTrail with Amazon RDS
Track all Amazon RDS costs in one dashboard across instances, storage, and engines with detailed breakdowns by database, region, and component.
Identify right-sizing opportunities for your RDS instances based on actual CPU, memory, and I/O utilization metrics to minimize costs while maintaining performance.
Monitor storage growth and backup retention policies to optimize database storage costs while maintaining compliance with recovery requirements.
Allocate RDS costs to specific applications, teams, or business units based on resource tags for accurate chargeback and accountability.
Connect your Amazon RDS account in minutes with our guided setup
Link your AWS account to CostTrail using secure IAM roles with read-only access to billing, RDS, and CloudWatch data.
Select which RDS instances, database engines, and regions to track, and set up custom cost allocation dimensions.
Define resource tags that will be used for attributing RDS costs to business units, applications, or environments.
Activate RDS-specific analysis tools like instance utilization tracking, storage monitoring, and multi-AZ deployment cost analysis.
How organizations leverage the CostTrail-Amazon RDSintegration
DevOps teams use CostTrail to monitor and optimize their RDS database costs, ensuring efficient resource allocation while maintaining performance and reliability for applications.
Organizations implementing mission-critical databases use CostTrail to balance high-availability requirements with cost efficiency through optimized Multi-AZ deployments and read replica strategies.
Companies evaluating different database engines use CostTrail to compare the total cost of ownership across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server on RDS for data-driven technology decisions.
Common questions about the Amazon RDS integration
