AWS launches Graviton-powered Redshift RG instances with up to 7x faster query performance
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Lindsay Clark
2d ago· 4 min readenNews
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Summary
AWS has launched new Redshift RG instances powered by its Graviton processors, claiming up to 7x faster query performance for data warehouse workloads. The new instances are up to 2.2x faster than the previous RA3 family while costing 30% less per vCPU. The updated query engine supports SQL analytics across data lakes and is positioned to handle AI agent workloads, where natural language queries from AI agents generate significantly more queries than traditional SQL users.
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Redshift's new RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, accelerate new query workloads by up to seven times
AWS claims the instances are up to 2.2x faster than the RA3 family, which it introduced in 2019, at 30 percent lower cost per vCPU
AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey
