--- 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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AP Atharva P. Cloud BI Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/8/2026 "Powerful Analytics Tool with Some Flexibility Limitations" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? I like Amazon Redshift because it solves large-scale data warehousing and analytics challenges by providing a centralized platform for storing and querying massive datasets. It enables faster reporting and better business insights, offering scalable analytics for enterprise workloads. I also appreciate its tight integration with AWS and its AI features, like automated workload management and query optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Cluster sizing, tuning, and cost optimization require very careful management. Performance can degrade if distribution keys and sort keys are not designed properly. Not very flexible as compared to Snowflake or BigQuery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift solves large-scale data warehousing and analytics challenges. It provides a centralized platform for storing and querying massive datasets, enabling faster reporting and better business insights, with scalable analytics. It's tightly integrated with AWS and offers strong SQL support and high query performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") AM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/18/2026 "Easy AWS-Native Data Warehouse, but Integrations Beyond AWS Need Work" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? I have used Redshift for 4 years. I like the easy to use it, create instance and use as data warehouse. Since it cloud native for AWS so easily integrate with other AWS service. New cluster has good performance and price is bit higher. AWS Support is good and helped when asked for an issue. It can be integrated with Bedrock for AI use cases but at initial level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Not easy to integrated for other sources and make it difficult to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? ingesting data for analytics and reporting purpose for petabyte scale of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User") G Verified User Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/7/2026 "Easy Setup, but Complex Pricing and Performance Lags" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? I find it really easy to set up and maintain Amazon Redshift, which helps me get started quickly without needing much upskilling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? The pricing is a bit complex, especially with AWS in general, and Amazon Redshift is no exception. Also, sometimes I find it runs quite slow, even without the need to be maxed out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift solves the problem of storing lots of structured complex data in an easily accessible format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Thank You page ![Rishav M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rishav M.") RM Rishav M. Data Engineer 2 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/13/2025 "Powerful Data Warehousing with Speed, but Lacks Out-of-the-Box Optimizations" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? What I like best about Amazon Redshift is its ability to handle massive amounts of data with impressive speed and scalability. It’s designed specifically for data warehousing, so complex queries run efficiently thanks to its columnar storage and massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture. Plus, it integrates smoothly with the AWS ecosystem, making it easier to build end-to-end data solutions accompanied by existing backend infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? In terms of optimizations, there are very little things that come out of the box. A significant amount of effort is required to optimize Redshift. - We have to manage the clusters and nodes since its not a serverless solution (not talking bout spectrum here!) - Concurrency issues when it is being used by a large number of users. We've had to set up limits and checks in place separately, which is a bit annoying. - There's a lot of maintenance overhead. Tasks like vacuuming and analyzing tables to maintain performance still require attention and adds lots of operational complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? In my previous companies, we decided to build out a pandas based reporting solution on top of a data warehouse. We had billions of rows of historical retail data which was ingested into Redshift from our OLTP systems via DMS. We chose Redshift for this since we were already in an AWS environment and it offered easy integrations. - Redshift's columnar nature helped in crunching and aggregating huge data volumes, making it ideal for our reporting solutions. - There are some nice optimizations like sort keys and distribution keys and vacuuming which helps to query the data faster. Though this takes quite some time to set up. - New improvements like Redshift Spectrum also help in querying raw data residing in S3 buckets for adhoc use cases. Overall, I've been satisfied with the product for usecases with small-to medium size data load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Yogesh K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yogesh K.") YK Yogesh K. Senior software engineer 2 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/23/2025 "Amazon Redshift: Feature-Rich Cloud Data Warehouse with Excellent Support" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? cloud-based data warehousing service, easy to access and manage, great support, lots of features, available to be integrated and used with many other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? higher cost, few limitations to some data types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? flexibility and easy of usage of data at one place to be managed efficiently solving the problem of looking for multiple options for one problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Prakash G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prakash G.") PG Prakash G. Data Migration Specialist, Data Engineering Manager Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/15/2024 "Amazon Redshift: Powerful and Scalable Data Warehousing for Seamless Analytics" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Amazon Redshift has an easy to use and setup gives teams of all sizes access to data warehousing and analytics. It’s got robust feature and it integrates well with other AWS services to make it easy to implement and scale. Their customer support is reliable and their use frequency adds a value by using their analytics which give us important insights about our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? While powerful, Amazon Redshift can be expensive to process on a large scale with increasing amount of data. Complex joins can slow down query performance, and tuning is an expertise. In high demand environments there is limited support for unstructured data and frequent optimization can be difficult, especially for daily operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift helps satisfy our demand for fast data warehousing by giving us blazing fast query performance in large datasets to run daily reporting and analytics. While complex data queries can occasionally be performance challenging, it provides our center data, which in turn helps us to gain better insights, and better decisions which in turn helps in our business operation and strategy planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Happy M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Happy M.") HM Happy M. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/21/2024 "A complete data warehouse solution with scalability" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? It provides easy to use and implement yet very powerful columns based data solution that helps in faster query performance. Also cross database analytics is gamechanger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? It requires time for propely optimizing and tuning queries for the db which is the downside of this solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? It has made possible to manage multiple cross db data processing with ability to run complex db queries on that data. I helps in analysing the data stored from different db and get proper insights of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 Icon 12/27/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/23/2023 "A smooth experience with this Data Warehouse" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? The best part is the ability of its keys (distribution data keys) which enhances the performance capabilities when queries are run. It is mostly managed by AWS and quite good in distribution processing too. Huge amount of data can be stored within it with ease, seamlessly integrates with other AWS services if needed, especially storage services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? An option to search/find data would be a little helpful because it can have massive amount of data. Scalability whether up or down is restricted or to be precise, it is limited to an extent.= compared to other cloud providers. Even is concurrency is less compared to others with a max of 50. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps in data storage and data processing all on cloud with very less downtime or issues. Caters us to provide data via queries for further usage like Reporting,further processing or even ETL for that matter to build pipelines. Stable at any point of time when used so it is reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/17/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Pharmaceuticals](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Pharmaceuticals") AP Verified User in Pharmaceuticals Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/12/2025 "Best datawarehousing solution" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Scalability and AI capabilities are very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Lack of cross language usage for writing code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Data warehousing solutions and etl end to end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/5/2024 "My experience with Amazon Redshift" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Best things i like about Amazon Redshift is its speed compare with other data warehouses. Here we can easily handle big data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Nothing too much as of now, but when i was working on Redshift Data warehouse. I observed that little more improvement is neeed in data handling part like automatic data compression. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? In my project main problem was the speed for big data. Amazon redshift was able to solve speed problem compare to other data warehouse. 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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