Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters

Amazon Redshift Β· 2026-09-03

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Technical Details

Affected Versions P204 or later
Regions Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (SΓ£o Paulo), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Mexico (Central)
Cost Impact Decrease
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Update your Redshift clusters to utilize single-node rg.large instances for smaller, non-high availability workloads, ensuring you are on P204 or later patch versions to leverage the new capability.

For Platform Teams

Adopt single-node rg.large clusters to enhance your data warehouse architecture with improved performance and cost efficiency, utilizing Redshift’s custom-built vectorized data lake query engine.

For Executives

Evaluate the new single-node rg.large clusters for cost-effective, high-performance data warehousing solutions, potentially reducing costs by up to 30% per vCPU and improving performance by 2.4x for smaller workloads.

Source

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