# Amazon Redshift

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

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/amazon-redshift
- **Category:** Data Warehouse Software
- **Homepage:** https://aws.amazon.com/redshift
- **Also known as:** amazon-redshift
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01T16:03:15.937Z

## Vioscale score

**59.5 / 100**, confidence 29% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 8 | 640 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 30 | 1500 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 28.9 | 12 | 346.9 | ✓ |
| integrations | 0 | 16 | 0 | - |
| security_posture | 5 | 22 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-01, [verify at source](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift). Independently observed._

from $0.54/mo · Hybrid · Free tier

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

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Provisioned On-Demand | $0.54 per hour | - | monthly |
| Provisioned Reserved | - | - | annual |
| Serverless | $1.50 per hour | - | - |

### Provisioned On-Demand

Hourly billing with no long-term commitments

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

### Provisioned Reserved

Reserved nodes with significant cost savings

- Significant discounts compared to On-Demand

### Serverless

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

## About

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._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Data Warehouse Software. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Deployment** | |
| Deployment | Managed cloud |
| **Architecture** | |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | Clusters |
| **Query** | |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific |
| **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 | - |
| **Query** | |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ |
| **Licensing** | |
| Licence class | Proprietary |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 0.543 | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.aws.amazon.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/amazon-redshift). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*