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Amazon Redshift pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Amazon Redshift (aws.amazon.com) is a data warehouse. Redshift Serverless bills per second of active compute in RPU-hours with a 4 RPU minimum, plus per-GB-month managed storage, while provisioned RA3 clusters bill per node-hour.. No free plan.

What Amazon Redshift costs

  • Startup, 100 GB: $92.40/mo (Serverless: 4 RPU x 60 h = 240 RPU-hours x $0.375 = $90.00, plus 100 GB x $0.024 = $2.40. Provisioned ra3.large at $0.543/h x 730 h = $396.39 before storage costs more.)
  • Hobby, 10 GB: $15.24/mo (Serverless: 4 RPU x 10 h = 40 RPU-hours x $0.375 = $15.00, plus 10 GB x $0.024 = $0.24. Provisioned ra3.large at $396.39 before storage costs more.)
  • Growth, 1 TB: $399/mo (Serverless: 4 RPU x 250 h = 1,000 RPU-hours x $0.375 = $375.00, plus 1,000 GB (1 TB) x $0.024 = $24.00. Always-on ra3.large would be about $420.39.)

Plan compared: Redshift Serverless at 4 RPU, 60 compute-hours, plus 100 GB managed storage. Every price is the monthly cost, at on-demand list prices, of the same analytics workload in a US region: a startup warehouse with 100 GB stored and 2 TB scanned (or 60 compute-hours) a month as the headline, a 10 GB hobby project and a 1 TB growing company. Scan-priced products are priced on data scanned, compute-priced ones on hours of their smallest compute size, always-on ones for the full month, plus storage; permanent free tiers count, trials and credits do not.

Amazon Redshift price hikes

No price hikes on record for Amazon Redshift.

Cheaper alternatives to Amazon Redshift

At a 100 GB startup warehouse, Amazon Redshift costs $92.40/mo. 1 data warehouse costs less:

  • Google BigQuery: $8.32/mo (On-demand: $6.25/TiB of queries after the free 1 TiB, plus $0.023/GiB-mo storage after the free 10 GiB, at 2 TiB scanned)

Amazon Redshift alternatives: 3 data warehouses compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Jun 8, 2026 · Price cut: Manual snapshots on Redshift Serverless and RG instances are now billed on unique data blocks across all snapshots, not each snapshot in full. AWS gave no dollar rates.

Sources

Pricing page: aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Serverless $0.375 per RPU-hour (4 RPU minimum) and managed storage $0.024/GB-month are from the official AWS page for US East (N. Virginia). The RA3 starting rate of $0.543/h is not tied to a node in the page text, but provisioned costs more than Serverless in every scenario, so the ref point does not depend on it.