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Amazon Redshift costs $0.54 to $1.50 per month as of May 2026. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

Use the interactive pricing calculator to estimate your exact cost based on team size and requirements.

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+3025% above list price
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Amazon Redshift true cost runs 3025% above the listed $0.543-$1.5/month price as of May 2026. For a 25-person team, expect ~$9,375 in year-one costs vs the $300 base license. Key hidden costs: redshift spectrum queries against s3 cost $5/tb scanned, billed separately from cluster compute, concurrency scaling beyond 1 free hour/day costs the same per-second rate as your provisioned cluster, cross-region data sharing incurs data transfer fees ($0.01-$0.02/gb). Verified from 1 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

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Redshift Spectrum queries against S3 cost $5/TB scanned, billed separately from cluster compute

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Concurrency Scaling beyond 1 free hour/day costs the same per-second rate as your provisioned cluster

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Cross-region data sharing incurs data transfer fees ($0.01-$0.02/GB)

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DC2 nodes bundle storage, so you pay for unused storage capacity if your data is small

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RA3 managed storage costs ($0.024/GB) add up quickly for multi-TB datasets

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Cluster snapshots stored in S3 incur additional storage costs beyond the free automated backup period

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Provisioned clusters are billed 24/7 even during periods of no query activity unless paused

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Elastic resize operations cause brief downtime and may incur additional compute during the transition

Example: True Cost for 25 Users

License (25 × $1 × 12) $300/yr
Implementation (one-time) +$15,000–$50,000
Premium Support (20%) +$60/yr
Training (25 × $500) +$12,500
Admin (part-time) +$15,000–$25,000/yr
Estimated Year 1 Total ~$9,375
That's roughly 31.3× the advertised license price. The median Amazon Redshift contract is $370/yr across 21 Vendr purchases.
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