--- title: Amazon Redshift Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon Redshift Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 404 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Redshift works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 404 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Amazon Redshift Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions. * * * Product Website Amazon Redshift Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon Redshift Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Amazon Redshift. ### RA3.4xlarge $1.22 - $3.26 Per hour ### RA3.16xlarge $8.61 - $13.04 Per hour [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![Rocket Vertica](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rocket Vertica") Rocket Vertica 4.3/5(216) ](https://www.g2.com/products/rocket-vertica/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 404 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Amazon Redshift Integrations (7) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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CM Chris M. VP of Technology Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/9/2016 "Maybe good for very large businesses, but way to slow for us." 0/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Handled some automatic integration with DynamoDB, but not well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Cost, Performance, general usability was very lacking. We switched to Aurora because Redshift just wasn't for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift: Try Aurora first. The limitations of Redshift so it can handle scale are bad. Between Aurora and DynamoDB, there is \*no reason to use RedShift\* Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting analytics from non-SQL datastores like DynamoDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon Redshift? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Amazon Redshift ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Amazon Redshift used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-amazon-redshift-used-for) ![Mehdi C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mehdi C.") 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