Supposedly it turns off when you're not using it, so you'd need a small, consistent load all year to reach that price. And if that's the case, you'd just use a

Supposedly it turns off when you're not using it, so you'd need a small, consistent load all year to reach that price. And if that's the case, you'd just use a low-end RDS instance. I think the value is in that you can build something quickly with no static instance cost that scales. You can (presumably) switch to normal instance-based RDS when your usage favors its pricing.