I have been trying to solve this question I've had about prisma for such a long time and I am so fed up I am just going to ask it here and hope that I can get a straight forward answer. I have used prisma with docker locally and I absolutely loved it. It was very rich and I was able to create my applications with ease. I like to use aws because I barely have to pay anything to get started on production level servers and so I thought it was time to create a mysql rds on aws and connect my prisma stuff to aws. That was really difficult for me. I played around with it and I ended up on a page where prisma was asking 40/month. So, my question is... is prisma pay to use? non locally... thank you for your answers.

there are two pieces to a prisma deployment - there’s the database server and the prisma service/cluster (and then most likely your own graphql server that talks to the prisma service). you need to host/deploy your prisma service somewhere. luckily, prisma is bundled as a docker container which you can run in many different environments (as long as they have network access to your db), you can run the docker container on an aws vm, or a gcp kubernetes cluster, or a DO droplet, it’s up to you. (see this: https://www.prisma.io/docs/tutorials/deploy-prisma-servers/digital-ocean-(docker-machine)-texoo9aemu)

So, If I create an RDS MySQL database. Would I need to pay prisma to use prisma on AWS? Or do I just connect the end point to prisma and just bill AWS.

You deploy the Prisma docker service to AWS and connect it to your RDS instance

Prisma is not and will never be pay to use locally. I don't know which page you refer to, we don't offer anything for $40.

@nilan I am sorry if I maybe asked the question incorrectly. I was referring to this note Note: Creating your own Prisma Cluster requires you to provide valid credit card information. Pricing starts at $45 / month per cluster in a pay-as-you-go fashion. Find more info about the pricing here. My question was if i want to use prisma for production with an AWS MySQL database. Do I need to pay for a cluster or can I just connect to AWS the way I connect with docker locally. Again sorry if my questions are confusing. I am still in a learning process. @lawjolla thank you for clarifying

been there... spent lots of time studying, trying and testing and ended up with docker hosted on Digitalocean - wish I had done that from the beginning. Live for 1month now and no problems