Exactly. You have to keep in mind that other than distkeys / sortkeys, there are no indexes. So all you can do to speed things up is organize your data better.

Exactly. You have to keep in mind that other than distkeys / sortkeys, there are no indexes. So all you can do to speed things up is organize your data better. For a ballpark figure, we work with a ~ 500million rows / 12 columns data set, and complex queries with a lot of joins typically take around 10 - 20 minutes to complete on Redshift's smallest cluster ($250/m).