Pricing snapshot
Amazon Redshift is sold as provisioned clusters or as Redshift Serverless. With provisioned clusters you choose the node type and count; Serverless scales capacity with the workload and shuts down when idle.
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| Option | Compute price | Billing and selection |
|---|---|---|
Provisioned | Hourly rate based on node type and number of nodes | On-demand: no commitments or upfront costs; billed while the cluster runs, with partial hours in one-second increments after a status change. Multi-AZ pays the same rates for double the compute. |
Serverless | From $1.50 per hour | RPU-hours charged per second with a 60-second minimum; no charge for data warehouse start up time. |
Billing details to verify
RG and RA3 clusters use Redshift Managed Storage (RMS), paid hourly for the total data stored, independent of the number of compute nodes. Serverless also uses RMS.
Pausing an on-demand cluster suspends on-demand billing; while paused, you pay only for backup storage.
Concurrency Scaling and Redshift Spectrum are included with Serverless. Data transfer and ML costs apply separately.
Customers who have never used Redshift Serverless are eligible for a $300 credit that expires after 90 days and applies to compute and storage use. How fast it is used depends on actual usage and the endpoint's compute capacity.
Serverless Reservations are billed hourly and metered per second. Usage above the specified RPU level is charged at standard on-demand rates.
What drives the bill
Provisioned billing depends on node type and count, running time, managed storage, and Concurrency Scaling usage beyond free credits. Serverless billing can include RPU-hour compute, managed storage, manual snapshot storage, data transfer, and ML-related charges.
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Estimate Redshift Serverless compute and managed storage in AWS US East (N. Virginia).
Modeled scope: AWS · US East (N. Virginia) · Redshift Serverless · On demand · Managed storage
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Published pricing reference
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| Component | Rate and unit | Commitment and region | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serverless compute | $0.375 USD per 1 RPU-hour | AWS · US East (N. Virginia) · Redshift Serverless · On demand | Nov 9, 2026 | Official source |
| Managed storage | $0.024 USD per 1 GB | AWS · US East (N. Virginia) · Redshift Serverless · On demand | Nov 9, 2026 | Official source |
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AWS · US East (N. Virginia) · Redshift Serverless · On demand · Managed storage
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- Average billed RPUs include expected scaling; this is an example workload, not a guaranteed base-capacity bill.
- One continuous active period per active day is assumed. Shorter repeated periods can trigger additional minimums.
Data transfer, snapshots, other AWS services, taxes, negotiated discounts, reserved capacity, and promotional credits are excluded.
Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling charges
Spectrum charges for the bytes scanned from an Amazon S3 data lake. It is not required for RG instances, which include a built-in data lake query engine. In AWS's US East (N. Virginia) illustration, scanning a 4 TB uncompressed text file costs $5/TB x 4 TB = $20; AWS notes compression ratios vary and the example is for illustration only.
Each active cluster earns up to one hour of free Concurrency Scaling credits per day, up to 30 hours; credits do not expire while the cluster is not terminated. Usage beyond the credits is charged at the per-second on-demand rate, with a one-minute minimum each time a Concurrency Scaling cluster is activated. In AWS's example, a 10-node rg.4xlarge cluster in US-West-1 costs $33.66 per hour, and two transient clusters used five minutes beyond the free credits add $0.00935 per second x 300 seconds x 2 = $5.61.
Data-lake and ML charges
Redshift can query open file formats in Amazon S3, including Apache Parquet, ORC, Avro, JSON and CSV. On Serverless, these queries are billed in RPU-hours like any other workload. Redshift ML adds Amazon SageMaker costs for creating models and for storage once the SageMaker free tier is used up.
Buying take
If you want capacity to scale and shut down on its own, evaluate Serverless and set Base, Max RPU-Hours, and MaxRPU to bound performance and budget; Base runs from 4 to 1024 RPUs. If you want to choose node types and can pause clusters such as development or test environments, evaluate Provisioned on-demand alongside managed-storage and Concurrency Scaling needs.
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Pricing and billing conditions are based on AWS Amazon Redshift pricing materials observed October 26, 2026.