Amazon Redshift Pricing Calculator
Model your monthly warehouse cost — Serverless RPU-hours or Provisioned RA3 nodes, plus managed storage and Spectrum scans. us-east-1 list pricing.
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us-east-1list rates, pricing as of 2026-06-21. Concurrency scaling overage, cross-region snapshots, and Redshift ML excluded. Source: AWS public pricing.
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Enter total RPU-hours consumed per month. Example: 64 RPU × 8 hrs/day × 22 days ≈ 11,264 RPU-hrs.
Who This Tool Is For
Data platform leads choosing Serverless vs Provisioned for BI, ETL, or lakehouse serving layers.
Why We Built This Tool
Compute and storage bill separately; Serverless is not always cheaper below ~70% utilization.
What Problem It Solves
- 24/7 Provisioned without RI. On-Demand RA3 nodes running idle inflate the warehouse line item.
- Serverless base RPU floor. Active windows still consume RPU-hours even with auto-pause between queries.
- Spectrum on cold S3. Uncompressed text scans bill $5/TB — Parquet column pruning cuts costs 100×.
Read the full decision guide in our Redshift Serverless vs Provisioned post or explore cost optimization services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an RPU in Redshift Serverless?
An RPU (Redshift Processing Unit) is the compute capacity unit for Serverless. You pay $0.36/RPU-hour in us-east-1 for active query time. Base RPU sets cold-start latency; max RPU caps burst scaling.
Is Redshift Serverless cheaper than Provisioned?
Not always. Serverless wins for intermittent workloads below ~70% utilization. For 24/7 analytics, Provisioned RA3 with 1- or 3-year Reserved Instances is typically 41–76% cheaper than On-Demand.
How is Redshift Managed Storage priced?
RMS bills $0.024/GB-month in us-east-1, independent of compute. Data is stored on high-performance SSDs with automatic offload to S3 — you pay the same rate regardless of tier.
How does Redshift Spectrum pricing work?
Spectrum charges $5/TB of data scanned (Provisioned clusters only). Serverless includes S3 query costs in RPU-hours. Columnar formats like Parquet dramatically reduce bytes scanned.
Do Reserved Instances apply to Serverless?
No. RIs apply to Provisioned node-hours only. Serverless has separate Serverless Reservations (up to 45% off for 3-year terms) — not modeled in this calculator.
Where do these Redshift prices come from?
Rates are AWS published us-east-1 list prices (Amazon Redshift pricing), pricing as of 2026-06-21.