Which is cheaper, Amazon Redshift or Azure Synapse Analytics?

AWS is cheaper in 2 of 3 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 54.5%.

How do Amazon Redshift and Azure Synapse Analytics compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 4, 2026AWSAzure

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

Azure Wins

Ties

AWS wins 2 of 3 price comparisons, averaging 54.5% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.3750/hr to $9.47/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Compute Instance workloads

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Best for Redshift Data Scan workloads

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Best for Serverless workloads

Comparing Amazon Redshift and Azure Synapse Analytics across 3 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon Redshift	Azure Azure Synapse Analytics	Diff	Cheapest
Compute Instance - ra3.large	$0.5430/hr ra3.large ($396.39/mo)	$0.5790/hr D4 v3 - D4 v3 AHB ($422.67/mo)	+6.2%	AWS
Redshift Data Scan - Redshift Data Scan	$5.0000/hr USE1-DataScanned ($3,650.00/mo)	$1.9380/hr D8 v3 - D8 v3 License Included ($1,414.74/mo)	+61.2%	Azure
Serverless - Serverless	$0.3750/hr USE1-Redshift:ServerlessUsage ($273.75/mo)	$9.4710/hr E32 v3 - E32 v3 License Included ($6,913.83/mo)	+96.0%	AWS