I made an attempt to find out how much does Aurora DSQL actually costs. AWS pricing mentions $8 per 1 million "Distributed Processing Unit" without specifying further how exactly they are calculated. 🤷‍♂️

Instead I decided to find out for my self how much do simple reads and writes could cost. The answer is always "it depends" but I like to be able to do some napkin math and quick comparisons and was not satisfied with what little information AWS pricing gave us!

Update: I found they actually published the formulas back in November in the docs but I started this effort in October so I didn't notice them. Updating the blog as well. I found a bug in my read query results as well.