Databases
AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey
AWS says it has boosted Redshift performance by bringing the data warehouse to its Graviton-powered instances, positioning it to handle AI agent workloads and fend off rivals in the analytics market.Redshift's new RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, accelerate new query workloads by up to seven times. AWS claims the instances are up to 2.2x faster than the RA3 family, which it introduced in 2019, at 30 percent lower cost per vCPU. The updated query engine also lets users run SQL analytics across data warehouses and data lakes from a single engine, delivering up to 2.4x the performance of RA3 for Apache Iceberg and up to 1.5x for Apache Parquet.
Amazon Redshift RG instances are available in AWS Regions including US East, US West, Asia Pacific, Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Milan, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). AWS plans to publish a roadmap for future availability. Users can choose hourly billing with no commitments or Reserved Instances for cost savings. AWS recommends using its Pricing Calculator with your specific workload patterns to estimate bills.
