Introducing Firebolt Editions and Compute Family Choices

Summary

• Standard and Enterprise editions give customers the flexibility to choose the best Firebolt plan for their needs.
• Storage-optimized and compute-optimized compute families let customers balance performance and cost.
• This launch makes Firebolt more accessible at lower price points while still delivering the high performance, scalability, and security that modern data teams require.

Power Meets Flexibility: What Firebolt is Announcing

At Firebolt, we believe that speed, flexibility, and efficiency should not be mutually exclusive. To further empower organizations looking to build data-intensive AI apps, we’re excited to introduce two new product editions—Standard and Enterprise—along with the ability to choose between storage-optimized and compute-optimized compute families.

With these updates, Firebolt gives customers more control over their query performance and infrastructure costs. Whether you're a data team looking for cost efficiency or an enterprise with complex workloads requiring high concurrency and advanced security, there’s a Firebolt edition and compute family type that fits your needs.

Why Firebolt is Introducing These Editions and Compute Options

Not all workloads are built the same, so why should your data warehouse be? Some teams need speed and security at scale while others prioritize cost efficiency and simplicity. With Standard and Enterprise editions, plus compute family choices, Firebolt is now:

• More Accessible – Standard edition lowers the barrier to entry, making Firebolt’s low latency analytics available to more teams.
• More Robust – Enterprise edition is built for teams that demand advanced security and compliance.
• More Cost-Efficient – With storage-optimized and compute-optimized options, customers only pay for the resources they actually need and use.

Choosing the Right Edition for Your Needs

Firebolt’s Standard and Enterprise editions cater to different customer needs.

Standard edition:

• is designed for teams that require high-performance analytics at a lower price point.
• provides all of our SQL functionality and optimizations: sub-second query latency, scalability, and high cost efficiency through a performance-optimized architecture, including subresult reuse, history-based optimizations, and aggregating indices.
• includes security features such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), single-sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and audit logging.

Enterprise edition:

• is built for organizations that require advanced security and compliance.
• includes all the features in the Standard edition, plus multi-clusters, auto-scaling for concurrency, AWS PrivateLink, and HIPAA compliance support.

Customers have full flexibility to transition between editions, and can do so easily by submitting a request in the billing section within Firebolt Workspace.

For more details about the Standard and Enterprise editions, please visit our pricing page.

Optimizing Performance and Costs with Compute Family Choices

Alongside these editions, Firebolt is also introducing the option to choose from two compute families:

• Storage-optimized: these engines have more memory and disk space relative to CPU and are often better at handling larger (TB+) datasets.
• Compute-optimized: these engines have a higher CPU-to-memory and disk ratio, prioritizing processing power for high-concurrency workloads that access a limited amount of data.

By selecting the right compute family, customers can tailor Firebolt to their specific use cases, balancing query speed, cost efficiency, and storage needs. Compute-optimized engines help reduce compute costs by up to 50%, compared to equivalently sized storage-optimized engines, ensuring efficient query execution without overspending on unutilized infrastructure. Meanwhile, storage-optimized engines deliver high-performance analytics on terabytes of data, allowing teams to efficiently process massive datasets while maintaining cost-effectiveness.

For more details and guidance on choosing the right compute family type, check out our Under the hood of Firebolt compute families blog.

Ready to experience Firebolt’s next evolution?

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