Pricing summary / tiers
With Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) you pay only for what you use. There are no minimum fees or upfront commitments. You pay for the time your Airflow Environment runs plus any additional auto-scaling to provide more worker or web server capacity.
Environment Pricing
Hourly Instance Usage
You pay for your Managed Workflows environment usage on an hourly basis (billed at one second resolution), with varying fees depending on the size of the environment. See the Environment Instance Pricing table for details.
Additional Worker Instance Pricing
Hourly Instance Usage
If you opt for auto-scaling, you pay for any additional worker instances used based upon your Managed Workflow environment task load. Usage is billed on an hourly basis (at one second resolution), with varying fees depending on the size of the environment. See the Additional Worker Instance Pricing table for details.
Additional Scheduler Instance Pricing
Hourly Instance Usage
If you opt for additional schedulers beyond those included with your Managed Workflows environment, you pay for any additional scheduler instances used based upon your Managed Workflow environment availability. See the Additional Scheduler Instance Pricing table for details.
Additional Web Server Instance Pricing
Hourly Instance Usage
If you opt for additional web server instances, you pay for those instances for the same duration that your Amazon MWAA environment is available. Usage is billed on an hourly basis (at one second resolution), with varying fees depending on the size of the environment. See the Additional Web Server Instance Pricing table for details.
Database Storage
GB-month Storage
Storage consumed by your Managed Workflows meta database is billed in per GB-month increments. You pay only for the storage your Managed Workflows meta database consumes and do not need to provision in advance.
Pricing table
Environment Instance Pricing
Region: China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet
| Size | Scheduler vCPU | Worker vCPU | Web Server vCPU | Recommended Workflow Capacity | Price Per Hour (CHY) |
| Micro | 1 | n/a | 1 | Up to 25 DAGs | 2.1006237 |
| Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | Up to 50 DAGs | 3.5493297 |
| Medium | 2 | 2 | 1 | Up to 250 DAGs | 5.3602122 |
| Large | 4 | 4 | 2 | Up to 1000 DAGs | 7.1710947 |
| XL | 8 | 8 | 4 | Up to 2000 DAGs | 14.3421894 |
| 2XL | 16 | 16 | 8 | Up to 4000 DAGs | 28.6843788 |
Additional Worker and Scheduler Instance Pricing
| Size | Price per Hour (CNY) |
| Small | 0.39839415 |
| Medium | 0.7967883 |
| Large | 1.5935766 |
| XL | 3.1871532 |
| 2XL | 6.3743064 |
Additional Web Server Instance Pricing (BJS)
| Size | Price per Hour (CNY) |
| Small | 0.39839415 CNY |
| Medium | 0.39839415 CNY |
| Large | 0.7967883 CNY |
| XL | 1.5935766 CNY |
| 2XL | 3.1871532 CNY |
Meta Database Storage
| 0.724353 CNY per GB Month |
Environment Instance Pricing
Region: China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
| Size | Scheduler vCPU | Worker vCPU | Web Server vCPU | Recommended Workflow Capacity | Price Per Hour(CNY) |
| Micro | 1 | n/a | 1 | Up to 25 DAGs | 2.8008316 |
| Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | Up to 50 DAGs | 4.7324396 |
| Medium | 2 | 2 | 1 | Up to 250 DAGs | 7.1469496 |
| Large | 4 | 4 | 2 | Up to 1000 DAGs | 9.5614596 |
| XL | 8 | 8 | 4 | Up to 2000 DAGs | 19.1229192 |
| 2XL | 16 | 16 | 8 | Up to 4000 DAGs | 38.2458384 |
Additional Worker and Scheduler Instance Pricing
| Size | Price per Hour (CNY) |
| Small | 0.5311922 |
| Medium | 1.0623844 |
| Large | 2.1247688 |
| XL | 4.2495376 |
| 2XL | 8.4990752 |
Additional Web Server Instance Pricing (ZHY)
| Size | Price per Hour |
| Small | 0.5311922 CNY |
| Medium | 0.5311922 CNY |
| Large | 1.0623844 CNY |
| XL | 2.1247688 CNY |
| 2XL | 4.2495376 CNY |
Meta Database Storage
| 0.965804 CNY per GB Month |
Pricing examples
If you are operating a medium Managed Workflows environment with Apache Airflow the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, where your variable demand requires 10 workers simultaneously for 2 hours a day, you require a total of 4 web servers simultaneously for 3 hours a day to manage your programmatic and Airflow UI load, a total of 3 schedulers to manage your workflow definitions, and retain 40 GB of data (approximately 200 daily workflows, each with 20 tasks, stored for 6 months), you would pay the following for the month:
Environment charge
Instance usage (in hours) = 31 days x 24 hrs/day = 744 hours
x 5.360212 CNY (price per hour for a medium environment in the China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet)
= 3,988.00 CNY
Worker charge
Instance usage (in hours) = 31 days x 2 hrs/day x 9 additional instances (10 less 1 included with environment) = 558 hours
x 0.796788 CNY (price per hour for a medium worker in the China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet)
= 444.61 CNY
Scheduler charge
Instance usage (in hours) = 31 days x 24 hrs/day x 1 additional instances (3 less 2 included with environment) = 774 hours
x 0.796788 CNY (price per hour for a medium scheduler in the China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet)
= 616.71 CNY
Web Server charge
Instance usage (in hours) = 31 days x 3 hrs/day x 2 additional instances (4 less 2 included with environment) = 186 hours
x 0.39839415 CNY (price per hour for a medium worker in the China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet)
= 74.10 CNY
Meta database charge
40 GB or storage x 0.724353 CNY-month = 28.97 CNY
Total charge = 5,152.39 CNY
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