Amazon Redshift Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.