Amazon Redshift RG: Faster and lower cost, Graviton-powered
Big Data Blog
This article announces the general availability of Amazon Redshift RG, a new Graviton-powered instance delivering faster performance and lower costs for analytics workloads.
- Up to 2.2x faster performance for data warehouse workloads compared to RA3
- Up to 2.4x faster for Iceberg queries and 1.5x faster for Parquet queries
- 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to RA3
- Eliminates per-TB scan charges for data lake queries (no Spectrum costs)
- Graviton SIMD kernels and custom Nitro SSDs enable vectorized execution
- JIT Analyze feature automatically collects statistics for optimized query planning
- Up to 2.0x faster data loads compared to RA3
- Up to 4.2x better price-performance than competing data warehouses
Amazon Redshift RG represents a next-generation analytics engine combining hardware acceleration, vectorized execution, and intelligent query optimization for superior price-performance.
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