Amazon Redshift introduces AWS Graviton-based RG instances with an integrated data lake query engine
AWS News Blog
This article announces Amazon Redshift RG instances, a new Graviton-based instance family for data warehouse and data lake analytics workloads.
- RG instances deliver 2.2x faster performance than RA3 at 30% lower cost per vCPU
- Integrated data lake query engine enables unified SQL queries across warehouse and data lake
- Data lake queries 2.4x faster for Apache Iceberg, 1.5x faster for Apache Parquet
- Eliminates $5/TB Spectrum scanning fees by running queries on cluster nodes
- Migration options include Elastic Resize (10-15 min downtime) or Snapshot and Restore
- No code changes needed; existing Spectrum queries and schemas remain compatible
- Available across 20+ AWS regions globally with On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing
Redshift RG instances reduce analytics costs and operational complexity for combined warehouse and data lake workloads while supporting high-volume AI agent queries.
The AWS News Feed is currently looking for gold sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.
Related articles
May 19
2026
2026
Meet Amazon Redshift RG – AWS Graviton-based instances with an integrated data lake query engine delivering up to 2.4x better performance at 30% lower price than RA3
May 12
2026
2026
Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
Nov 26
2024
2024
Amazon Aurora now supports Graviton4-based R8g database instances
Jul 31
2025
2025
Amazon Redshift out-of-the-box performance innovations for data lake queries
The AWS News Feed is currently looking for silver sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.