Best Data Warehouse · pricing · Updated June 2026
Amazon Redshift pricing (2026)
Amazon Redshift publishes no self-serve price (quote-only), across 2 plans. Best for AWS-native organizations wanting deep integration with the AWS analytics ecosystem. Every figure links to Amazon Redshift's own page and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: Quote-only
- Free tier: No · 90-day trial
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- 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
Amazon Redshift plans & pricing
| 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 |
Last verified 2026-06-14. Official pricing page aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/ fetched successfully. HIPAA eligibility confirmed via aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-reference/ (Redshift explicitly listed). BAA covered under standard AWS BAA for eligible services.
Capabilities
Integrations: Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Apache Kafka, Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Power BI, dbt, Amazon Bedrock.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Does Amazon Redshift support HIPAA?
Amazon Redshift HIPAA support: Yes. SOC 2: Yes. GDPR: Yes.
Does Amazon Redshift have a free plan?
Amazon Redshift free tier: No; 90-day free trial.