Amazon Neptune
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Amazon Neptune, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Amazon Neptune's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| On-demand | — | No minimum fees · No upfront fees · Cost varies by configuration and AWS Region · By the hour for database instances; storage and I/O are billed separately. |
| Serverless | — | 1 NCU starting capacity · Up to 15 read replicas |
| Database Savings Plans | — | Savings depend on commitment and eligible usage · Commit to a specific amount of eligible usage, measured in $/hour, over a 1-year term. |
| Neptune Serverless | — | Neptune Database only · Capacity measured in NCUs · Starting capacity 1 NCU · Per second for database capacity, plus storage while active. |
The facts
Each one read from Amazon Neptune's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Compliance
- AWS states that Neptune has over 20 international compliance standards and is HIPAA eligible.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Neptune supports encryption at rest using AWS Key Management Service keys and requires TLS 1.2 or later for connections.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Graph notebooks
- Neptune provides a managed Jupyter notebook environment hosted by SageMaker AI for running graph queries and visualizing results.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Neptune documentation describes integrations with AWS Glue, Amazon SageMaker AI, and AWS Lambda.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Neptune ML limits
- Neptune ML is available only in Regions where Neptune and its dependent services are all supported.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Product
- Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service for building and running applications that work with connected data.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Query languages
- Neptune supports Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, and SPARQL.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Read replicas
- A Neptune Database cluster can have up to 15 read replicas.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Security responsibility
- AWS describes Neptune security as a shared responsibility: AWS protects the cloud infrastructure, while customers are responsible for security in the cloud.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Serverless scaling
- Neptune Serverless automatically scales database capacity up or down with workload demand and is available for Neptune Database.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Storage limit
- Neptune Database storage can grow to a maximum of 128 TiB in supported AWS Regions, except China and GovCloud.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Vector search
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Free trial
- New Neptune customers can use specified Database instance hours, I/O requests, storage, and backup storage free for 30 days from creating their first Neptune Database cluster.checked 3 Oct 2026
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