--- 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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SW Swaroop W. Senior IT Project Manager - Senior Scrum Master Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/26/2026 "Scalable and Efficient Cloud Data Platform" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Amazon Redshift provides excellent performance for large-scale data warehousing and analytics workloads. I like its seamless integration with AWS services, fast query execution, scalability, and ease of managing huge datasets. The pricing flexibility and support for BI/reporting tools make it very useful for enterprise analytics solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? The main downside is that query optimization and cluster management can be complex for beginners. Costs can increase quickly if resources are not monitored and optimized properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift helps us solve large-scale data analytics and reporting challenges by centralizing data from multiple systems into one platform. It improved query performance, reduced report generation time from hours to minutes, enabled real-time insights, and optimized infrastructure costs through scalable cloud architecture. 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 ![Ankit K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankit K.") AK Ankit K. Business Analyst Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/17/2026 "Fast, Scalable Data Warehouse with Strong AWS Integration" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? fast query performance on large datasets, scalable data warehouse, strong integration with AWS ecosystem, columnar storage for analytics, good for structured data workloads, reliable for reporting and BI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? query performance can degrade without optimization, concurrency limitations on heavy workloads, maintenance and tuning effort required, scaling is not fully seamless, cost can increase with usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? centralized data warehousing, faster analytics on large datasets, improved query performance for reporting, better integration with BI tools, enables data-driven decision making 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 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anup K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anup K.") AK Anup K. Business Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/19/2026 "Easy Integration with Amazon Redshift for Fast Data Queries" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? It’s easy to integrate with other software, works well with Amazon Redshift, and makes it fast to query data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? ui can be more interactive as right now everthing look clustered Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? we uses aws datawarehouse and currently work faster when we have query without joins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Kathy L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kathy L.") KL Kathy L. Director Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/27/2025 "Reliable and scalable data warehouse with room for improvement" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Amazon Redshift provides excellent scalability for handling large volumes of structured data and integrates smoothly with other AWS services like S3 and Glue. Query performance is strong for analytical workloads, and the columnar storage significantly speeds up aggregation queries. The ability to separate storage and compute has improved cost management and flexibility, making it easier to scale resources up or down depending on workload needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? While powerful, Redshift can become costly at scale if not carefully monitored and optimized. Query performance sometimes degrades when dealing with complex joins or semi-structured data compared to newer cloud-native solutions. Managing concurrency can also be a challenge, and performance tuning requires specialized knowledge. Additionally, native support for unstructured data is still limited compared to alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift helps consolidate data from multiple sources into a centralized data warehouse, making it easier to run analytical queries at scale. This has allowed our team to generate business insights much faster compared to traditional databases. By leveraging its integration with AWS services like S3 and Glue, we’ve automated our ETL pipelines, reduced manual data preparation, and improved reporting speed. It has also helped optimize decision-making by giving stakeholders near real-time access to dashboards and analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/26/2025 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Manh N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Manh N.") MN Manh N. Inventory Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/29/2025 "Good Product" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? What I like best about Amazon Redshift is how easy it is to connect and get started. The interface is user-friendly, and the connection is fast, which makes querying large datasets smooth and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? "So far, I haven’t encountered anything I dislike about Amazon Redshift. It’s been reliable and has met my needs well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Redshift makes it way easier to handle and analyze large amounts of data without everything slowing down. I can run big queries and get results fast, which really helps when I need to make decisions quickly or build reports. It also pulls data from different sources into one place, so I don’t have to waste time jumping between tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/13/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Utilities](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Utilities") CU Verified User in Utilities Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/16/2026 "Easy to Use, Scalable, and Simple to Connect with Other Software" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Easy to use, scalable, easy to connect to other software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Sometime sis hard to translate the data types from other RDBMS but usually you can find a way to sync them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using it as a datawarehouse in the project I'm on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Antarix K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Antarix K.") AK Antarix K. AI Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/12/2025 "Easy to scale up and down, cost effective and easy to integrate with EMR and lambda" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Easy to scale up and down, Multi zone architecture for data safeguarding. Easy to scale schedule. Easy logs access. Easy to setup and simple to inject data using EMR and lambda and Auto Sharing is great help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Query queuing and concurrency issues.At times Auto distribution style does not work wonders and needed to be changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Data ingestion and massaging and manipulation for serving BI reports and ML models to use train on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Snehasish K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snehasish K.") SK Snehasish K. Founder E-Learning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/30/2024 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "High-Performance Data Warehousing with Exceptional Scalability" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Amazon Redshift is a game-changer, allowing us to have highly scalable and performance-enabled data warehousing for the complex project. The MPP architecture and columnar storage offer powerful query performance on the platform. Redshift also allowed us easily to integrate several AWS services, such as using S3 for data imports and Glue for ETL operations, and made our pipeline very streamlined so that data transfer and queries were decreased by many times. With Spectrum, Redshift can handle structured as well as semi-structured data, which will allow efficient cross-database queries and productivity boost with regards to data analytics and reporting. Advanced data compression features and data distribution ensure that storage is optimally utilized while efficiently making use of and managing costs on resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? Though performance and scalability of Redshift are excellent, the system is not very easy to use for optimization and query tuning for new users. Automated tools for better configuration will enable it to reach a diverse set of teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift solved the problem of big data processing and execution of complex queries by offering a strong and reliable infrastructure that accelerates data processing by up to 35%. Its scalable power has helped absorb increasing volumes of data, and rich analytics support has been helpful in helping you experiment quickly and bring actionable insigh 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 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jai C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jai C.") JC Jai C. Software engineer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/19/2024 "Reliable and Powerful Data Warehousing" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Whenever I need to manage large datasets, Amazon Redshift is my go-to tool. Its ability to handle complex queries and large volumes of data makes it essential for my work. The speed and efficiency with which it processes data are particularly impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? For someone new to AWS or cloud-based data warehousing, getting started with Redshift can be a bit tricky. The initial learning curve was steep for me, especially when it came to understanding the migration process. But with time, I found it to be an invaluable platform for analyzing complex data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon Redshift has been a crucial tool for managing financial data and forecasting demand. I appreciate how it simplifies data sharing within my team and integrates smoothly with tools like Microsoft PowerBI and Tableau. This integration has allowed me to create detailed reports and dashboards that are easy to use and share, streamlining our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/14/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shehriyar A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shehriyar A.") SA Shehriyar A. Search Engine Optimization Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/24/2025 "Excellent product, highly recommend" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Redshift? Scalable tools with real-times insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift? please Pricing can be complex and unclear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you? Handles big data with fast insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ## 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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