Understanding the pricing model is critical because it shifts from "paying for the server" to "paying for shards and compute power." The Core Pricing Components
Elastic Clusters are ideal for production workloads with changing demands, but are generally more expensive than provisioned instances for steady-state, predictable workloads. documentdb elastic cluster pricing
| Resource | Pricing Model | Approximate Cost (Example) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Per ACU-Hour | ~$0.12 per ACU-hour | | Storage | Per GB-Month | ~$0.10 per GB-month | | Backup Storage | Per GB-Month | ~$0.023 per GB-month | | Data Transfer (Inter-AZ) | Per GB | ~$0.01 per GB | Understanding the pricing model is critical because it