RDS Database Instances 

The instance type used has 8 vCPUs and are selected to support a larger number of database threads in a production workload.

Instance Type Resource Specs Price Per Hour (us-east)
db.m5.2xlarge 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM $0.68 (MySQL) ($0.71 PostgreSQL)
db.r6g.2xlarge 8 vCPUs, 64GB RAM $0.86 (MySQL) ($0.90 PostgresSQL)
db.r7g.2xlarge 8 vCPUs, 64GB RAM $0.96 (MySQL & PostgreSQL)
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