Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. RG instances deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift’s custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes, enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine.
RG instances are available in four instance sizes, rg.large, rg.xlarge, rg.4xlarge and rg.12xlarge. Customers with existing RA3 clusters can upgrade them to RG using Snapshot & Restore, Elastic Resize, or Classic Resize. RG instances are available with flexible pricing options, including On-Demand, and 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances with All Upfront, Partial Upfront, and No Upfront payment options. For pricing details, visit the Amazon Redshift pricing page.
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