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AWS redshift documentation change

Service: redshift · 2026-05-13 · Documentation low

File: redshift/latest/dg/create-datashare-external-views.md

Summary

Added clarification about cost attribution for RG provisioned clusters when consuming datashare external views.

Security assessment

Change only addresses billing differences between cluster types with no security implications. No security features, vulnerabilities, or access controls are mentioned or modified.

Diff

diff --git a/redshift/latest/dg/create-datashare-external-views.md b/redshift/latest/dg/create-datashare-external-views.md
index 03f833888..c7c65487d 100644
--- a//redshift/latest/dg/create-datashare-external-views.md
+++ b//redshift/latest/dg/create-datashare-external-views.md
@@ -145 +145,3 @@ The following details how costs are attributed for storing and scanning data lak
-    * When the consumer is a provisioned cluster, Redshift uses Redshift Spectrum to scan Amazon S3 data. Therefore, the Spectrum cost is billed to the consumer account.
+    * When the consumer is an RA3 or DC2 provisioned cluster, Redshift uses Redshift Spectrum to scan Amazon S3 data. Therefore, the Spectrum cost is billed to the consumer account.
+
+    * When the consumer is an RG provisioned cluster, there is no separate charge for Spectrum as the data lake queries run on the cluster compute that is billed with RG node-hour compute pricing.