The Default Redshift Serverless Setting That Was Quietly Costing Us $2,700 a Month

<p>A client of mine spun up a new Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroup, pointed their nightly ELT job at it, and moved on. Three weeks later the AWS bill landed and the Redshift line item was almost four times what they'd modeled. Nobody had touched a knob. The workgroup was still running the base capacity the console picked for them when they clicked "Create": 128 RPUs, on all day, whether anyone

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