Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of RG instances , a new generation of provisioned cluster nodes powered by AWS Graviton processors that deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift’s custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes — enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine. This eliminates the need for…