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DBaaS flavors and prices

The database instances are hosted on top of cPouta. The billing is based on the flavor (database instance size), volume size of the database and how much backup you are using. All these resources consume Cloud Billing Units, for more information about Billing in CSC, visit the Billing page.

Flavor types

Flavor Cores Memory (MB) Cloud Billing Units / hour (current) Cloud Billing Units / hour (2026)
standard.small 2 2000 2 4
standard.medium 3 4000 4 7
standard.large 4 8000 7 12
standard.xlarge 6 16000 13 22
standard.xxlarge 8 32000 25 40
standard.3xlarge 8 64000 50 52
hpc.5.16core 16 59392 60 60

Volumes

Resource type Unit Cloud Billing Units / GiB hour (current) Cloud Billing Units / hour (2026)
Volumes GiB reserved 0.01 0.02

The maximum volume size per database instance is currently 200 GiB.

Backups

Resource type Unit Cloud Billing Units / GiB hour (current) Cloud Billing Units / hour (2026)
Backups GiB usage 0.003 0.005

Automatic daily backups are stored for 90 days and they consume Cloud Billing Units based on total backup usage.

Quotas

Defaults Quotas

Resource type Amount
Maximum manual backups 1000
Maximum number of database instances 5
Maximum memory usage 20000 MB
Maximum volume reservation 50 GiB

If you need to run more or bigger database than what the default quota allows you can always send a request to ServiceDesk .