Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of RG instances, a new generation of provisioned cluster nodes powered by AWS Graviton processors that deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes — enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine. This eliminates the need for Redshift Spectrum's separate scanning fleet and its associated per-terabyte charges.
Whether you're running structured data warehouse workloads on Redshift Managed Storage or querying open-format data lake tables in Amazon S3, RG instances deliver significant performance improvements — up to 2.2x as fast as RA3 instances for data warehouse workloads, up to 2.4x as fast for Apache Iceberg queries, and up to 1.5x as fast for Parquet workloads. The natively built data lake engine features a purpose-built I/O subsystem with smart prefetch, NVMe caching, vectorized Parquet scans, and advanced file and partition-level pruning. Just-in-Time (JIT) Analyze delivers consistently fast queries without manual tuning — automatically collecting and updating table statistics as your data and workload patterns evolve. Intelligent NVMe caching keeps frequently accessed datasets close to compute, reducing round-trips to your data lake for faster response times on repeated queries. RG instances are available at launch in two instance sizes — rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge. Existing RA3 clusters can migrate using Snapshot & Restore, Elastic Resize, or Classic Resize. RG instances are available with flexible pricing options, including On-Demand, and 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances with No Upfront payment. For pricing details, visit the Amazon Redshift pricing page.
Amazon Redshift RG instances are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Taiwan), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).
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