Amazon Redshift vs Snowflake
On the evidence we track, Snowflake leads this comparison with a composite score of 68/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Amazon Redshift
A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency.
Snowflake
LeaderSnowflake is a fully managed cloud service that unifies data storage, analytics, machine learning and AI capabilities in a single platform. It enables organizations to process structured and unstructured data, build AI applications and share live data across organizations and cloud environments.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Amazon Redshift
Provisioned from $0.543/hour on-demand or discounted reserved rates; Serverless from $1.50/hour per-second billing. Free $300 credit for 90 days on new Serverless accounts.
- Provisioned On-Demand$0.54/hr
- Flexible scaling
- Pause and resume
- Node type selection
- Elastic Resize
- Provisioned Reserved Instances-
- Significant discounts over on-demand
- Steady-state workloads
- Cost predictability
- Serverless$1.50 per hour
- Automatic capacity scaling
- No idle charges
- Seconds-based billing
- Automatic shutdown
- Serverless Reservations-
- Up to 45% savings on Serverless compute
- Cross-account sharing
- AWS payer account management
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Apache Iceberg
Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Bedrock
- Apache Parquet
- Streaming services
- Operational databases
- Amazon MSK
Snowflake
Leader- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Streamlit
- PyTorch
- NVIDIA
- Jira
- GitHub
Amazon Redshift or Snowflake: which one depends on you
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