Amazon Redshift made its RG instance family generally available in the Europe (Zurich) Region, featuring AWS Graviton processors that deliver up to 2.4 times the runtime speed of prior RA3 instances for data warehousing and lake workloads, along with a 30% reduction in price per vCPU. These instances utilize a custom vectorized data lake query engine capable of processing Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats, enabling unified SQL analytics across data warehouses and lakes.
Customers can choose from four instance sizes and easily upgrade existing RA3 clusters using snapshot restore or resize operations. RG instances support multiple flexible pricing options and enhance performance and cost efficiency of scalable analytics workloads. This deployment reflects ongoing AWS efforts to optimize cloud analytics infrastructure with ARM-based processors.
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Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in Europe (Zurich) Region ↗Source published 2026-09-10. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.