Save up to 24% on Amazon Redshift Serverless compute costs with Reservations

This article explains how Amazon Redshift Serverless Reservations can reduce compute costs by up to 24% through committed RPU purchases with flexible payment options.

• Reserve RPUs for one-year terms with 20% (no-upfront) or 24% (all-upfront) discounts
• Reservations managed at AWS payer account level, shareable across multiple accounts
• Determine optimal RPU levels using Serverless Dashboard or AWS Billing recommendations
• Per-second metering with hourly billing ensures you pay only for actual usage
• Reservations are immutable, regional, and automatically applied before on-demand charges
• Start conservatively to avoid over-purchasing; use 30-60 day usage windows for recommendations
• Excess usage beyond reserved RPUs charged at standard on-demand rates

Redshift Serverless Reservations provide predictable costs and significant savings for analytics workloads by committing to baseline RPU capacity while maintaining serverless flexibility.