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

Published
September 10, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-redshift-rg-available-zurich

Amazon Redshift RG Instances Available in AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. RG instances deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes, enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine.

Instance Sizes

  • rg.large
  • rg.xlarge
  • rg.4xlarge
  • rg.12xlarge

Upgrade Options

  • Snapshot & Restore
  • Elastic Resize
  • Classic Resize

Pricing Options

  • On-Demand
  • Reserved Instances:
    • 1-year and 3-year
    • All Upfront
    • Partial Upfront
    • No Upfront

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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