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Amazon Redshift

The cloud data warehouse that delivers unmatched price-performance for analytics and agentic AI

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What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse that powers modern analytics and autonomous AI workloads. It offers provisioned and serverless deployment options with 2.2x better price-performance than competitors.

Independently observed

Amazon Redshift pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.54/moHybridFree tier

From $0.543/hour (Provisioned) or $1.50/hour (Serverless). Free tier available.

Provisioned On-Demand

$0.54 per hour
monthly

Hourly billing with no long-term commitments

  • Hourly billing
  • No long-term commitments
  • Elastic Resize
  • Resize Scheduler for daily/weekly scaling

Provisioned Reserved

-
annual

Reserved nodes with significant cost savings

  • Significant discounts compared to On-Demand

Serverless

$1.50 per hour

Automatic capacity management with per-second billing

  • Per-second billing
  • No charges during idle periods
  • Automatic capacity start/stop and scaling
  • Serverless Reservations for up to 45% savings
  • Shareable across AWS accounts

What Amazon Redshift does

The capabilities that matter for data warehouse software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Deployment
Deployment
Managed cloud
Architecture
Architecture
Separated storage/compute
Compute model
Clusters
Query
SQL dialect
Vendor-specific
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
✓
Interoperability
Table-format support
-
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Automatic
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
✗
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
-
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
-
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
-
Licensing
Licence class
Proprietary
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Amazon Redshift alternatives

Other data warehouse software we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

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Balanced composite 60 / 100
low · 29%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability5030.001500.0✓
Pricing Transparency10012.001200.0✓
Price Level808.00640.0✓
Capabilities2912.00346.9✓
Integrations016.000.0-
Security Posture522.000.0-

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"deployment":"managed","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"proprietary","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":false,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp0.543mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%