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Amazon Redshift

A high-performance managed data warehouse combining warehouse and data lake analytics with AWS Graviton-based computing.

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Available worldwide

What is 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.

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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 tier90-day trial

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
monthly

Hourly billing for provisioned clusters with no long-term commitments; can pause/resume to avoid charges

  • Flexible scaling
  • Pause and resume
  • Node type selection
  • Elastic Resize

Provisioned Reserved Instances

-
annual

Discounted pricing for reserved capacity with annual or multi-year commitment

  • Significant discounts over on-demand
  • Steady-state workloads
  • Cost predictability

Serverless

$1.50 per hour

Per-second billing with automatic scaling; no compute charges during idle periods

  • Automatic capacity scaling
  • No idle charges
  • Seconds-based billing
  • Automatic shutdown

Serverless Reservations

-
annual

Discounted Serverless rates; shareable across AWS accounts at the payer account level

  • Up to 45% savings on Serverless compute
  • Cross-account sharing
  • AWS payer account management

Add-ons

  • Redshift Managed Storage (RMS)
  • Concurrency Scaling
  • Redshift Spectrum
  • Redshift ML

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
Iceberg, Parquet
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Automatic
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
✓
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
Functional
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
✓
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
✓
Licensing
Licence class
Proprietary
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Platform & deployment

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Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (7)

Independently observed
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Apache Iceberg
  • Apache Parquet
  • Streaming services
  • Operational databases

Amazon Redshift FAQ

Common questions about Amazon Redshift, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is 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. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr

Is Amazon Redshift free?

Amazon Redshift offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.54 per hour. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/

What platforms does Amazon Redshift support?

We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Redshift. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr

Can Amazon Redshift be self-hosted?

We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Redshift, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr

What does Amazon Redshift integrate with?

We have confirmed 7 integrations for Amazon Redshift, including Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, Streaming services and Operational databases. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/

What security certifications does Amazon Redshift have?

We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Redshift. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Redshift not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp

Where is Amazon Redshift available?

Amazon Redshift is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/

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Balanced composite 52 / 100
medium · 64%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability500.167.9✓
Pricing transparency1000.066.3✓
Security posture350.124.0✓
Capabilities670.053.4✓
Integrations260.051.3✓
Price level00.040.0-

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Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq7 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesIn db ml: Yes · Deployment: managed · Sql dialect: vendor · Architecture: separated · Data sharing: Yes · Compute model: clustersmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count7mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityHqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
Price levelunknownmediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
FedrampYeshighsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%
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