IBM® watsonx.data pricing plans

Key supported features

• Ability to pause and resume Presto engine.
• Ability to connect to an IBM Cloud-provided Cloud Object Storage (COS) bucket and provide credentials to your own COS or S3 bucket.
• Ability to delete Presto, Milvus, and connections to your own bucket.

Limitations

• The Lite plan is limited to provision a single instance per account.
• The Lite plan is limited to 2000 resource units (RUs) before the instance is suspended. The cap value is displayed on the IBM Cloud catalog provisioning page and is reflected on your billing page within your watsonx.data instance upon provisioning. Your plan expires on reaching either the cap limit of 2000 RUs or exceeding the trial period of 30 days.
• The Lite plan is limited to a maximum of one Presto engine or Milvus service with starter size (1.25 RUs per hour) or both.
• The Lite plan is limited to the smallest node sizes and profiles for each engine and service. You cannot increase the node size.
• The Lite plan instances cannot be used for production purposes.
• The Lite plan might be removed anytime.
• The Lite instances are unrecoverable (no BCDR).
• Engine scaling functionality is not available in the Lite plan.

You must be connected to your own bucket to save and backup any data that is external to the Lite instance before full consumption of the Lite plan resource units.

To upgrade to another plan, you must have a pay-as-you-go or subscription IBM Cloud account and provision a distinct Enterprise instance of watsonx.data.

Key supported features

• Ability to scale (increase and decrease) node sizes for Presto engines.
• Ability pause and resume Presto engines.