# Amazon Redshift pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** aws.amazon.com
**Free tier:** No · 90-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Apache Kafka, Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Power BI, dbt, Amazon Bedrock
**Best for:** AWS-native organizations wanting deep integration with the AWS analytics ecosystem; HIPAA-regulated teams (eligible service, BAA via standard AWS agreement); Enterprises running petabyte-scale analytics on provisioned RA3 clusters; Teams needing zero-ETL pipelines from AWS databases into a warehouse

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Serverless (On-Demand) | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.375/RPU-hour (per-second billing, 60-second minimum). Base capacity 4-1024 RPUs; 16 GB memory per RPU. Minimum effective rate $1.50/hr at 4 RPUs. Serverless Reservations available: up to 45% savings (3-year) or 24% (1-year). Storage: $0.024/GB-month (US East N. Virginia). | aws.amazon.com |
| Provisioned — RA3 (ra3.4xlarge) | Quote-only | — | custom | $3.26/hr per ra3.4xlarge node (on-demand). Provisioned clusters start at $0.543/hr for smallest node type. Managed Storage billed separately at $0.024/GB-month (US East). Spectrum: $5.00/TB scanned. Concurrency Scaling: free up to 1 hr/day per cluster. | aws.amazon.com |

**Key features:** RA3 nodes: decoupled storage/compute with Managed Storage scaling to petabytes in S3; Redshift Spectrum: query exabytes of data directly in S3 without loading; Zero-ETL integrations: ingest from Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, and SaaS apps without ETL pipelines; Multidimensional data layouts (MDDL) and ML-based automatic workload management; Amazon Q for natural-language SQL generation and query optimization recommendations.

**Plan limits:** No forever-free tier; trial is $300 credit valid for 90 days (Serverless only, new accounts); Serverless: 60-second minimum billing, 4 RPU minimum (effective $1.50/hr minimum); Concurrency Scaling: 1 free hour per day per cluster, then $0.375/RPU-hour; Redshift Spectrum: $5.00/TB scanned against S3; Trial offer not part of AWS Free Tier; only for accounts that have never used Redshift Serverless.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
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