Amazon Redshift
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Resumen
Amazon Redshift is AWS's managed, columnar cloud data warehouse for running large-scale SQL analytics and BI workloads. It separates compute from storage, offers both a serverless mode and provisioned clusters (including newer Graviton-based RA3/RG node types), and integrates natively with the broader AWS data ecosystem including S3, Kinesis, SageMaker, and Bedrock. It reached general availability in February 2013 and remains actively developed with regular AWS feature releases.
El problema que resuelve Amazon Redshift
Analytics teams running large-scale BI and reporting workloads typically outgrow their transactional databases and end up needing separate infrastructure just to store, index, and query billions of rows without slowing down production systems. Amazon Redshift solves this by providing a fully managed, columnar cloud data warehouse that separates compute from storage, scales elastically through Serverless or provisioned clusters, and plugs directly into the rest of the AWS data ecosystem, so analysts can run petabyte-scale SQL analytics without operating their own database servers.
Contexto para decidir
Usa estos puntos para comprobar si el producto encaja con tu operación, no solo con la lista de funciones.
- Precio de entrada publicado: $0 per RPU-hour (Redshift Serverless base compute rate). Confirma límites de usuarios, uso y funciones por plan.
- Despliegue: cloud. Comprueba requisitos de seguridad, residencia de datos y acceso para todos los equipos que lo utilizarán.
- Integraciones verificadas: Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon MSK, Amazon Aurora. Valida el sentido de sincronización y los límites del plan elegido.
- La ficha se comprobó por última vez el 31/7/2026; los precios y las funciones pueden cambiar.
Cómo evaluar Amazon Redshift
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Encaje de flujo
El registro la considera especialmente adecuada para Organizations already standardized on AWS that want a native, tightly-integrated data warehouse, Enterprises and mid-market companies running large-scale SQL-based BI/reporting workloads, Teams that need to query both data-lake files (S3/Iceberg/Parquet) and warehouse tables from a single SQL engine. Comprueba que ese contexto coincide con el volumen, los roles y los procesos que debe soportar tu equipo.
Preguntas del piloto
- ¿Puede Amazon Redshift completar el flujo crítico sin trabajo manual fuera de la herramienta?
- ¿Las conexiones registradas (Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams) cubren el sentido de sincronización, los permisos y el volumen que necesitamos?
- ¿Qué límites de usuarios, uso, almacenamiento, soporte o seguridad aparecen después del precio inicial?
Evidencia y vigencia
Esta ficha se comprobó el 31/7/2026. La fecha indica cuándo se revisó el registro, no una garantía de que el proveedor no haya cambiado sus condiciones después.
Ideal para
- Organizations already standardized on AWS that want a native, tightly-integrated data warehouse
- Enterprises and mid-market companies running large-scale SQL-based BI/reporting workloads
- Teams that need to query both data-lake files (S3/Iceberg/Parquet) and warehouse tables from a single SQL engine
No encaja si
- Small teams wanting a fully cloud-agnostic warehouse with minimal tuning, since Snowflake/BigQuery are often cited as more portable and lower-maintenance
- Teams without in-house SQL/DBA expertise, since getting expected performance still requires attention to distribution keys, sort keys, and vacuum/analyze maintenance
Por qué está listada
- One of the most widely adopted cloud data warehouses, particularly among organizations already standardized on AWS
- Backs BI/reporting and machine-learning workloads at enterprise scale with deep native integration into the AWS data ecosystem
- Actively developed AWS service with regular price-performance and architecture updates
Precios
Redshift Serverless
$0 per RPU-hour (billed per-second, 60-second minimum)Usage-based, auto-scaling compute measured in Redshift Processing Units, with no cluster management required.
- Automatic scaling of compute capacity
- Per-second billing
- No cluster provisioning required
- Includes Redshift Managed Storage
Provisioned RA3 nodes
$3 per node-hour, e.g. ra3.4xlargeCurrent-generation provisioned clusters with managed storage that scales independently of compute.
- Managed storage billed separately
- Reserved Instance pricing available
- Cross-cluster and cross-account data sharing
Provisioned RG (Graviton) nodes
$1 per node-hour, starting priceNewer Graviton-processor-based provisioned instance family, a faster, cheaper successor to RA3.
- Up to 2.4x the performance of RA3
- About 30% lower price per vCPU than RA3
- Managed storage included
Free Trial
FreeIntroductory offer for new accounts to evaluate Redshift before paying for compute and storage.
- $300 credit valid for 90 days for new Serverless users
- 2-month free trial of a provisioned cluster where Serverless is unavailable
Funciones
Integraciones
Seguridad y cumplimiento
Pros y contras
Pros
- Deep, native integration with the AWS ecosystem (S3, Kinesis, SageMaker, QuickSight, Bedrock)
- Strong price-performance, especially with newer RA3/RG (Graviton) node types and the Serverless option
- Scales to petabyte-size datasets while remaining standard SQL/JDBC/ODBC compatible
- Mature, extensively documented security/compliance footprint (SOC 1/2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA-eligible)
Contras
- Reviewers note a real learning curve around performance tuning (distribution keys, sort keys, vacuum/analyze)
- Node-based provisioned pricing and concurrency limits can get expensive at scale compared to some competitors
- Some SQL syntax and behavior differences from standard PostgreSQL trip up newcomers
- Less cloud-agnostic than Snowflake or BigQuery — tightly coupled to the broader AWS ecosystem
Qué muestra el registro
Rated 4.3/5 on G2 (402 reviews) and 4.4/5 on Capterra (14 reviews); reviewers consistently cite strong scalability and AWS-ecosystem integration, with support quality and data-security sub-scores of 8.5 and 9.7 on G2 respectively.
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