Amazon Redshift
Cloud data warehouse for large-scale analytics on AWS
Amazon Redshift is profiled here as a LLM tool for engineering teams. Read about features, pricing, and how it compares to related options in the tools directory.
Description
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse from AWS, launched in 2012, that runs analytical queries over petabyte-scale datasets using a columnar, massively parallel architecture. It distributes data and query work across nodes, and Redshift Serverless lets teams run workloads without provisioning clusters while paying for the capacity they use. Spectrum queries data directly in Amazon S3, and tight integration with the AWS ecosystem makes Redshift a common warehouse for organizations already on AWS. Zero-ETL integrations bring operational data in from Aurora and RDS, which removes a separate pipeline for moving transactional data into the warehouse.
Key Capabilities:
Columnar, massively parallel processing for fast analytical queries
Redshift Serverless that runs queries without managing clusters
Spectrum for querying data directly in Amazon S3
Materialized views and result caching for repeated queries
Integration with AWS services for ingestion, BI, and security
Concurrency scaling that adds capacity during query spikes
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