Amazon Redshift reduces manual snapshot cost for Serverless and RG instances
Amazon Redshift announces a new billing model for manual snapshots on Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift RG instances. With this enhancement, Amazon Redshift now meters manual snapshot storage based on the unique data blocks stored across your snapshots rather than the total size of each individual snapshot. This results in lower manual snapshot costs for customers who maintain multiple snapshots. Customers who maintain multiple manual snapshots for disaster recovery, testing, or long-term retention will see reduced storage costs. With this new billing model, you can take more freq
Cloud providers are continuously optimizing their services and billing models to attract and retain customers, especially for data-intensive services like data warehousing.
Lowering the cost of critical data management functions like manual snapshots incentivizes better backup and recovery practices and reduces operational expenditure for database users.
The cost of maintaining multiple manual snapshots in Amazon Redshift is now reduced, making disaster recovery and long-term retention more affordable.
- · Amazon Redshift users
- · Companies with extensive data warehousing needs
- · Cloud storage providers
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Redshift users will likely increase their frequency and number of manual snapshots due to lower costs.
Improved data resiliency and reduced risk of data loss for organizations relying on Redshift data warehouses.
Potentially enables more aggressive data retention policies and complex analytics scenarios that depend on historical data snapshots.
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