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Amazon Redshift RG instances powered by AWS Graviton now available in additional regions

Published
June 16, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/amazon-redshift-rg-instances-3-additional-regions/

Amazon Redshift RG Instances Now Available in Three Additional Regions

Amazon Redshift is expanding the general availability of RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, to Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These new instances offer up to 4.2X better price-performance, run workloads up to 2.4X faster, and cost 30% less per vCPU compared to previous-generation RA3 instances.

Customers in these regions can now provision rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge node types for various workloads. Upgrading existing RA3 instances to RG instances will provide improved query performance and reduced compute costs.

Cost Savings

  • Incremental Manual Snapshots: Customers now pay less for backup storage as snapshot costs are metered based on unique data blocks rather than total snapshot size.
  • Eliminated Redshift Spectrum Scanning Charges: Customers no longer pay for data scanned in Amazon S3 via Spectrum, further reducing the total cost of running data lake queries.

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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