Amazon Redshift Pricing

LS
IoT Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The cost will depend on how you set up your warehouse and what kind of data you store. I would rate the pricing as six out of ten.

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Tamás Srancsik - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst Lead at Vectornator

The solution has very competitive pricing. It can be expensive for the first time when you are building your site. Time and the amount of data also take some time to downsize. It would be cheaper than to have a server, but for Plexigos storage, you have to buy a specific size of compute power. Initially, it was more expensive than BigQuery pay-as-you-go, but it got cheaper later. The more data you have, the relative ratio becomes cheaper. It depends on the use case. In AWS, you must invest and understand the setups, such as what kind of servers you need. Then, you can set up your own, which can be very cheap. Redshift can be engineering-focused to set up, which is not ideal. Azure and Google Cloud, are more efficient for data analysts who are not data engineers. But it can be effective once you get used to it and set up a process. If you are utilizing the on-demand stuff, Redshift is the only vendor offering a dedicated service.

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MiodragMilojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Archirect at Telenor

In terms of pricing, if you plan to use the product for a small company and you compare the cost to a product like Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, then you need to consider potential company growth and whether you may need to expand the system in the future, require partitions, etc. It could be that in the end, Autonomous Data Warehouse is cheaper than Amazon because if you use that product it can fit your processes and run dynamically. This is not possible on Redshift. If you have two different types of servers on Redshift then at some point you'll reach a limit and will need to move to another type of cluster which is not such an easy operation. On the other hand, with Autonomous Data Warehouse, you can add extra terabytes, but that's it. Nothing else. 

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NJ
Sr BI and Data Engineer at Datacult

Redshift is a bit less costly than Snowflake, but the effort justifies the cost for Snowflake.

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SP
Senior Economics Analyst at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The cost must be improved. We’re concerned about the cost. It’s driving a lot of TCO for us. We are looking for alternatives to optimize the cost.

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Ansari Rehman - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Data Architect (AWS-Snowflake-Teradata-Oracle) at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The solution is available at a mid-range price as compared to other vendors.

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Jayanta Datta - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at Morgan Stanley

The initial setup is very smooth and took us about six months to deploy.  The cost is comparable to Snowflake.

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TT
Soullution Architech at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's on the expensive side.

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Syed Zakaulla - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Softway

Every solution has a cost and comes in different packages. Considering these factors, AWS Glue is on top. Though Amazon Redshift is good, it depends on what kind of business you're trying to do, what type of analytics you need, and how much data you have.

For Amazon Redshift, we pay around INR 60,000 annually. The cost factor also depends on the number of existing customers. In addition to the standard licensing fee paid for AWS, we incur a cloud storage cost of around a quarter million for the amount of data. We also have to bear additional costs for data security and cybersecurity, which are well taken care of by Amazon, hence the premium pricing. There are several other features and services provided by Amazon that justify the premium pricing.

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Liana Iuhas - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Quark Technologies SRL

In comparison to the price of similar solutions, Redshift's cost is the lowest.

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Mikalai Surta - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Big Data Department at IBA Group

The product is quite expensive.

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MandarGarge - PeerSpot reviewer
V.P. Digital Transformation at e-Zest Solutions

Redshift is costly compared to other solutions.

It's pay per use. You can have multiple models. You can go for yearly cost, which is a little discounted than the monthly cost. Depending on how much data you process and store, you can have different pricing. There's no fixed cost. All of these are based on how much data you store monthly and how much data you process.

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AishwaryaKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Capgemini

The price of Amazon Redshift is reasonable because it depends on the usage that you use and for DWH for the long term.

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AR
VP, Data and Insights at a tech company with 201-500 employees

It's not very pricey compared to other tools. I would rate the price as 5 out of 10.

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LourensWalters - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Scientist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have heard complaints about the solution’s pricing, and thus I rate it as a five.

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RR
Data Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The price of the solution is reasonable. According to the RA3 cluster particularly, it provides 128 GB of storage with only four nodes. If you can manage your computations processes with the help of materialized views and proper queries. I think the IP clusters are very useful and overall fair for the price.

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PS
Business Analyst at Insphere Solutiona

Pricing for Amazon Redshift is reasonable, though it could be somewhat higher than other solutions, such as Azure. Still, when you base your comparison on the services offered and the pricing, it's the most reasonable versus its competitors, such as RDS.

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HS
Consultant at ANWB

The product is cheap considering what it provides; I rate it five out of five for affordability. 

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it_user396519 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

AWS Redshift is one of the fastest and most cost-effective cloud-based databases. They have charged $3330 per TB/year for the ds2.8x large instances which have 244 GB RAM, 36-core CPU, 10Gbps network and 16 TB HDD.

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AJ
Senior Solutions Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Licensing costs are reasonable. 

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AG
Engineering Manager/Solution architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

This solution implements the pay-as-you-use model, so no license. It's just for underlying infrastructure.

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AA
Financial Performance Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I cannot speak to the pricing. I don't handle billing or payments. 

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MJ
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The licensing is paid on a monthly basis, and I think the pricing is acceptable. They also have a pay-per-go model which is on a per user basis. 

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AA
Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I am not aware of the licensing terms.

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MS
CEO at Screenit Labs Pvt Ltd

At the moment, pricing is a little bit on the higher side, although it depends on the size of the company. If it's a fairly large enterprise that has a defined budget then they may not have too much of an issue with the pricing.

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it_user653898 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Data Services at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

BI is sold to our customer base as a part of the initial sales bundle. A customer may elect to opt for a white labeled site for an up-charge.

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EM
DBA at Kimetrics

Amazon Redshift costs less than Oracle Cloud or Microsoft Azure.

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MP
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I am not sure about the pricing of the tool since that's not my department. I know that Snowflake is cheaper to set up, manage, and store data. On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing a seven.

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TD
Cloud & Data - practice leader at Micropole Belgium

The cost of Redshift ranges from a few hundred dollars a month to thousands of dollars a month, according to the resources that you're going to use, the number of nodes, and the type of nodes.

My customers have implementations that cost about $500 a month for a very small one. I also have a customer with a monthly invoice of about $25,000 USD.

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MS
Chief Information Officer at Sensilab

It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20.

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Padmanesh NC - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Solution Architect - Spatial Data Specialist at SCIERA, INC

Pricing and licensing is so important. In terms of pricing, it's bit high, as they are using standard hardware. My advice to users is: We need to start the cluster when we require it. At the end of the workday, we can just snapshot the clusters and shut them down. And then we restore those snapshots when we need them back. That way, we are charged only for usage rather than spending money on wait time or sleep.

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it_user576444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Rails Developer at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees

The pricing page is explicit. Choose what suits your needs in terms of storage and performance.

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it_user583371 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Based on quality of the product and its price, it is the one of the best options available in the market now.

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it_user576441 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer [Redshift Programmer] at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Redshift pricing policy is easy to understand.

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AJ
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Amazon Redshift is an expensive solution. Larger organizations can afford this solution, but smaller businesses would struggle to afford it.

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it_user705738 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Engineer, West at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have nothing to add here as I wasn’t involved in this part of the process. However, one of my customers went with Google Big Query over Redshift because it was significantly cheaper for their project.

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NW
BI Manager at jfrog

If you want to think of every query you make but want to know that your nodes are fully managed, then use BigQuery Data Analytics. If you want a fixed price, an to not worry about every query, but you need to manage your nodes personally, use Redshift.

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it_user1256502 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Of course I would advise others to choose Amazon Redshift, as long as pricing is not a concern for them.

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it_user149223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer, Big-Data/Data-Warehousing at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Regarding pricing and licensing, I advise to start small and have your developers/DBA use table compression and partitioning from the start.

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it_user869871 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Inawisdom

Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive.

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it_user576450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Pricing was quite a strong point of Redshift when it was first released. Nowadays, quite a number of other services are very competitive in pricing, such as BigQuery.

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it_user689532 - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Redshift is very cost effective for a cloud based solution if you need to scale it a lot. For smaller data sizes, I would think about using other products.

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