Amazon Redshift expanded its RG instance family by offering rg.large and rg.12xlarge sizes in the AWS GovCloud US-West and US-East Regions.
Aug 13, 2026
18d agoKey Details
- Added rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes for RG instances in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions
- RG instances run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU
- Feature a vectorized data lake query engine supporting Apache Iceberg and Parquet data formats
- Available on patch version P202 and later with Elastic Resize, Classic Resize, and Snapshot & Restore support