title: AWS Data Pipeline Pricing for On-demand Runs
body: <p>AWS Data pipeline documentation provides following information on pricing for data pipelines.</p>
  
  <p>High frequency activities - $1.00 per month
  Low frequency activities - $0.60 per month
  Inactive pipelines -  $1.00 per month</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>High Frequency activities are ones scheduled to execute more than once a day; for example, an activity scheduled to execute every hour or every 12 hours is High Frequency. Low Frequency activities are ones scheduled to execute one time a day or less.  Inactive pipelines are those in PENDING, INACTIVE, and FINISHED states.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have run into the following problem. Suppose I configure an on-demand data pipeline with a single activity. I am repeatedly activating this on-demand pipeline with a different configuration ( ex - different query in each run ) - say 100 times per day.</p>
  
  <p>Does this count as a single high frequency activity, despite being activated multiple times?</p>
  
  <p>Is the cost for activating this pipeline 100 times per day still $1 per month ?</p>