AWS announces lower-cost, faster storage for Amazon Redshift

SEATTLE, USA: Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), announced the availability of Dense Compute nodes, a new SSD-based node type, that enables customers to create even faster, lower-cost data warehouses with Amazon Redshift.

Customers can now start smaller, with 160GB datasets for as little as $0.10/hour, and then easily scale to a cluster with thousands of cores, terabytes of RAM, and hundreds of terabytes of SSD storage as their needs grow.

"Amazon Redshift has become the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS by providing customers with a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehousing service for a tenth the price of traditional solutions," said Raju Gulabani, Vice President of Database Services, AWS.

"We have been actively engaging with our customers using Amazon Redshift and watching them tap into insights that were previously out of reach to help grow their businesses. Today, we are making Amazon Redshift even more accessible to customers, lowering the cost of a single node by as much as 56 percent while increasing the ratio of CPU, RAM, and I/O to storage to offer even higher performance."

Amazon Redshift customers now have two node choices: Dense Compute nodes and Dense Storage nodes. Dense Compute nodes for Amazon Redshift are ideal for customers who have less than 500GB of data in their data warehouse or for customers with more than 500GB of data whose primary focus is performance.

With Dense Compute nodes, customers can scale up to hundreds of terabytes, giving them the highest ratio of CPU, memory, and I/O to storage. If performance isn't as critical for a customer's use case, or if customers want to prioritize reducing costs further, they can use the larger Dense Storage nodes and scale up to a petabyte or more of compressed user data. Scaling a cluster up and down or switching between node types requires a single API call or a few clicks in the AWS Management Console.

Amazon Redshift dramatically lowers the cost of production and development by enabling customers to provision clusters in minutes, shut them down when not in use, and easily recreate them when they are needed again.

Customers can launch Amazon Redshift clusters using the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Dense Compute and Dense Storage nodes for Amazon Redshift are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.