Amazon Redshift launches faster, cheaper Graviton instances

Amazon Redshift has unveiled new RG instances, leveraging AWS Graviton processors for enhanced performance and cost efficiency. These instances are designed to accelerate both data warehouse and data lake workloads, reportedly achieving speeds up to 2.4 times faster than existing RA3 instances while reducing the cost per vCPU by 30%. A key feature is the integrated data lake query engine, which offers support for popular open table formats like Apache Iceberg, further streamlining data management and analysis for users.