Amazon Redshift pricing and limits

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A warehouse billed by the hour for provisioned nodes or by the second for serverless capacity, with storage scaling independently.

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Entry paid plan$0.543 an hour for a provisioned cluster, or $1.50 an hour for serverless — about $391 and $1,080 a month if left running. Serverless shuts down when idle and bills per second with a 60-second minimum, so the higher hourly rate can be the cheaper one.

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Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated September 20265 criteria comparedSources last checked 3 October 2026

Amazon Redshift pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan: $0.543 an hour for a provisioned cluster, or $1.50 an hour for serverless — about $391 and $1,080 a month if left running source ↗
Pricing model: Two deployment options priced on time rather than data source ↗
What the free plan includes: A two-month free trial for provisioned clusters, capped at 750 hours a month — so one cluster running continuously exhausts it almost… source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Constant, predictable query load already inside AWS. At $0.543 an hour a provisioned cluster costs the same whether it serves one query or a million, so heavy continuous use is where the hourly model pays.

Consider something else if…

The warehouse sits idle. A provisioned cluster bills around $391 a month doing nothing; serverless shuts down when inactive but starts at $1.50 an hour, so the cheaper rate and the cheaper bill are not the same option.

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Amazon Redshift pricing

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Free tierNo

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“customers can start a free trial for provisioned clusters”
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What the free plan includesA two-month free trial for provisioned clusters, capped at 750 hours a month — so one cluster running continuously exhausts it almost exactly. Serverless is offered with a credit instead, drawn down at a rate that depends on the endpoint capacity.

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“Once your two month free trial expires or your usage exceeds 750 hours per month”
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Entry paid plan$0.543 an hour for a provisioned cluster, or $1.50 an hour for serverless — about $391 and $1,080 a month if left running. Serverless shuts down when idle and bills per second with a 60-second minimum, so the higher hourly rate can be the cheaper one.

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“Redshift Provisioned starts at $0.543 per hour, while Redshift Serverless begins at $1.50 per hour.”
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Pricing modelTwo deployment options priced on time rather than data. Provisioned bills per node-hour for a cluster you size yourself; Serverless bills Redshift Processing Unit hours per second, with a 60-second minimum and no charge for start-up time, shutting down when inactive. Managed storage is billed independently of compute in both.

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“You pay for the workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis (with a 60-second minimum charge)”
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Storage

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Storage priceRedshift Managed Storage grows independently of compute, so a cluster can be sized for query performance without over-provisioning disk. The page states the separation as the design point rather than quoting one rate for it.

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“Redshift Managed Storage can grow independently of compute resources, preventing over-provisioning.”
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Amazon Redshift pricing questions

How much does Amazon Redshift cost?

$0.543 an hour for a provisioned cluster, or $1.50 an hour for serverless — about $391 and $1,080 a month if left running. Serverless shuts down when idle and bills per second with a 60-second minimum, so the higher hourly rate can be the cheaper one.

Amazon Redshift pricing · read 15 Sept 2026

How does Amazon Redshift charge?

Two deployment options priced on time rather than data. Provisioned bills per node-hour for a cluster you size yourself; Serverless bills Redshift Processing Unit hours per second, with a 60-second minimum and no charge for start-up time, shutting down when inactive. Managed storage is billed independently of compute in both.

Amazon Redshift pricing · read 15 Sept 2026