Amazon Redshift is expanding the general availability of RG instances — powered by AWS Graviton processors — to three additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). Amazon Redshift’s new Graviton-based RG instances deliver up to 4.2X better price-performance for data warehouse workloads compared to other data warehouses, run workloads up to 2.4x faster than previous-generation RA3 instances, and cost 30% less per vCPU.
Customers in Cape Town (af-south-1), Bangkok (ap-southeast-7), and Mexico Central (mx-central-1) can provision rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge node types — ideal for a wide range of workloads from smaller development environments to production data warehouse deployments. Customers can upgrade their existing RA3 provisioned instances to RG instances and immediately benefit from improved query performance and reduced compute costs.
RG instances come with additional cost savings built in by default. With Amazon Redshift incremental manual snapshots, customers now pay less for backup storage as snapshot costs are metered based on unique data blocks rather than total snapshot size. Additionally, RG instances eliminate Redshift Spectrum scanning charges, meaning customers no longer pay for data scanned in Amazon S3 via Spectrum — further reducing the total cost of running data lake queries.
To get started, visit the Amazon Redshift documentation and the RG instances pricing page.
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Source: Amazon Web Services
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