Amazon Redshift Adds New RG Instance Sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift now offers `rg.large` and `rg.12xlarge` instance sizes for its RG instances within the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East) Regions. These RG instances provide enhanced performance, processing data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4 times faster than previous-generation RA3 instances, at a 30% lower price per vCPU. The instances include a custom-built vectorized data lake query engine, enabling unified SQL analytics across diverse data formats like Apache Iceberg and Parquet. Customers can resize existing RG or RA3 clusters to these new sizes using Elastic or Classic Resize, or upgrade RA3 clusters via Snapshot & Restore, with availability on patch version P202 and later.
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- New RG instance sizes for Redshift in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift has introduced `rg.large` and `rg.12xlarge` instance sizes for RG instances in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East) Regions. These RG instances deliver improved performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x faster than RA3 instances at a 30% lower price per vCPU. They include a vectorized data lake query engine for unified SQL analytics across data warehouse and data lake data, and are available on patch version P202 and later.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-redshift-adds-rg-large-12xlarge-aws-govcloud-regions/
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