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Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in Europe (Zurich) Region

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region, delivering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower price per vCPU compared to RA3 instances.

Amazon Redshift RG instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region, powered by AWS Graviton processors. They run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x faster than previous RA3 instances and reduce cost per vCPU by 30%. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine, processing Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on cluster nodes for SQL analytics across data warehouses and data lakes. They are offered in four sizes: rg.large, rg.xlarge, rg.4xlarge, and rg.12xlarge. Customers with existing RA3 clusters can upgrade to RG using snapshot and restore, elastic resize, or classic resize. RG instances are available on demand and as 1- and 3-year reserved instances with flexible payment options. For pricing details, see the Amazon Redshift pricing page.

Why it matters

Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehouse service for large-scale data analysis and business intelligence. The introduction of RG instances enhances performance and cost efficiency in the Europe (Zurich) Region.

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