Amazon Redshift RG instances now available on the trailing track

Amazon Redshift Graviton-based RG Instances on Trailing Track

Starting July 7, 2026, rg.4xlarge and rg.xlarge instance types are available for customers running workloads on the trailing track (P201). These instances offer up to 2.4x faster query performance than RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU.

What to do

• Provision a new cluster or resize an existing cluster to an rg.4xlarge or rg.xlarge instance type on the trailing track (P201) in the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

Source: AWS release notes

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