Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
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This article announces the general availability of Amazon Redshift RG instances, a new generation of provisioned cluster nodes powered by AWS Graviton processors.
- RG instances deliver up to 2.4x faster performance than previous RA3 instances
- 30% lower price per vCPU compared to RA3 instances
- Custom-built vectorized data lake query engine processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data
- Eliminates need for Redshift Spectrum's separate scanning fleet and per-terabyte charges
- Up to 2.2x faster for data warehouse workloads, 2.4x for Iceberg queries
- JIT Analyze automatically collects and updates table statistics without manual tuning
- Intelligent NVMe caching reduces round-trips to data lake for faster queries
- Available in two sizes: rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge
- Flexible pricing: On-Demand, 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances
- Available across 25+ AWS regions globally
RG instances provide significant performance and cost improvements for data warehouse and data lake workloads, with seamless migration options from existing RA3 clusters.
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