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Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed data warehouse that

makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data
using standard SQL and your existing Business Intelligence (BI)
tools. It allows you to run complex analytic queries against 3:22
petabytes of structured data, using sophisticated query
optimization, columnar storage on high-performance local What is Amazon Redshift?

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 disks, and massively parallel query execution. Most results
come back in seconds. With Amazon Redshift, you can start
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small for just $0.25 per hour with no commitments and scale
out to petabytes of data for $1,000 per terabyte per year, less Request support for your
than a tenth the cost of traditional solutions. proof-of-concept or
evaluation
Amazon Redshift also includes Redshift Spectrum, allowing
you to directly run SQL queries against exabytes of
unstructured data in Amazon S3. No loading or transformation
is required, and you can use open data formats, including Avro,
CSV, Grok, ORC, Parquet, RCFile, RegexSerDe, SequenceFile,
TextFile, and TSV. Redshift Spectrum automatically scales
query compute capacity based on the data being retrieved, so
queries against Amazon S3 run fast, regardless of data set
size. Learn more about Redshift Spectrum »

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Fast
Amazon Redshift delivers fast query
performance by using columnar
storage technology to improve I/O
efficiency and by parallelizing
queries across multiple nodes. Data
load speed scales linearly with
cluster size, with integrations to
Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB,
Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and
any SSH-enabled host.
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Benefits
Inexpensive
You only pay for what you use. You
can have unlimited number of users
doing unlimited analytics on all your
data for just $1000 per terabyte per
year, 1/10th the cost of traditional
data warehouse solutions. Most
customers see 3-4x reduction of data
size after compression, reducing
their costs to $250-$333 per
uncompressed terabyte per year.
Extensible
Redshift Spectrum enables you to
run queries against exabytes of data
in Amazon S3 as easily as you run
queries against petabytes of data
stored on local disks in Amazon
Redshift, using the same SQL syntax
and BI tools you use today. You can
store highly structured, frequently
accessed data on Redshift local disks,
keep vast amounts of unstructured
data in an Amazon S3 “data lake”,
and query seamlessly across both.
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Amazon Redshift allows
you to easily automate
most of the common
administrative tasks to
manage, monitor, and
scale your data warehouse.
By handling all these time-
consuming, labor-intensive
tasks, Amazon Redshift
frees you up to focus on
your data and business.
You can easily resize your
cluster up and down as
your performance and
capacity needs change
with just a few clicks in the
console or a simple API
call.
Security is built-in. You can
encrypt data at rest and in
transit using hardware-
accelerated AES-256 and
SSL, isolate your clusters
using Amazon VPC and
even manage your keys
using AWS Key
Management Service
(KMS) and hardware
security modules (HSMs).
Amazon Redshift supports
standard SQL and provides
custom JDBC and ODBC
drivers that you can
download from the
console, allowing you to
use a wide range of
familiar SQL clients. You
can also use standard
PostgreSQL JDBC and
ODBC drivers.

Features

Optimized for Data Petabyte Scale Query your Amazon S3

Warehousing
Amazon Redshift uses a variety of
innovations to obtain very high
query performance on datasets
ranging in size from a hundred
gigabytes to an exabyte or more. For
With a few clicks in console or a
simple API call, you can easily
change the number or type of nodes
in your data warehouse and scale up
all the way to a petabyte or more of
compressed user data. Dense
“data lake”
Redshift Spectrum enables you to
run queries against exabytes of
unstructured data in Amazon S3,
with no loading or ETL required.
When you issue a query, it goes to

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 petabyte-scale local data, it uses Storage (DS) nodes allow you to the Amazon Redshift SQL endpoint,
columnar storage, data compression, create very large data warehouses which generates and optimizes a
and zone maps to reduce the using hard disk drives (HDDs) for a query plan. Amazon Redshift
amount of I/O needed to perform very low price point. Dense Compute determines what data is local and
queries. Amazon Redshift has a (DC) nodes allow you to create very what is in Amazon S3, generates a
massively parallel processing (MPP) high performance data warehouses plan to minimize the amount of
data warehouse architecture, using fast CPUs, large amounts of Amazon S3 data that needs to be
parallelizing and distributing SQL RAM and solid-state disks (SSDs). read, requests Amazon Redshift
operations to take advantage of all While resizing, Amazon Redshift Spectrum workers out of a shared
available resources. The underlying allows you to continue to query your resource pool to read and process
hardware is designed for high data warehouse in read-only mode data from Amazon S3, and pulls
performance data processing, using until the new cluster is fully results back into your Amazon
local attached storage to maximize provisioned and ready for use. Redshift cluster for any remaining
throughput between the CPUs and processing.
drives, and a 10GigE mesh network
to maximize throughput between
nodes. For exabyte-scale data in
Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift
generates an optimal query plan
that minimizes the amount of data
scanned and delegates the query
execution to a pool of Redshift
Spectrum instances that scales
automatically, so queries run quickly
regardless of data size.

No Up-Front Costs Fault Tolerant Automated Backups

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 You pay only for the resources you
provision. You can choose On-
Demand pricing with no up-front
costs or long-term commitments, or
obtain significantly discounted rates
with Reserved Instance pricing. On-
Demand pricing starts at just
$0.25/hour per 160GB DC1.Large
node or $0.85/hour per 2TB
DS2.XLarge node. With Partial
Upfront Reserved Instances, you can
lower your effective price to
$0.10/hour per DC1.Large node
($5,500/TB/year) or $0.228/hour
per DS2.XLarge node
($999/TB/year). Redshift Spectrum
queries are priced at $5/TB scanned
from S3. For more information, see
the Amazon Redshift Pricing page.
Amazon Redshift has multiple
features that enhance the reliability
of your data warehouse cluster. All
data written to a node in your cluster
is automatically replicated to other
nodes within the cluster and all data
is continuously backed up to Amazon
S3. Amazon Redshift continuously
monitors the health of the cluster
and automatically re-replicates data
from failed drives and replaces
nodes as necessary.
Amazon Redshift automatically and
continuously backs up new data to
Amazon S3. It stores your snapshots
for a user-defined period from 1 up
to 35 days. You can take your own
snapshots at any time, and they are
retained until you explicitly delete
them. Amazon Redshift can also
asynchronously replicate your
snapshots to S3 in another region
for disaster recovery. Once you
delete a cluster, your system
snapshots are removed, but your
user snapshots are available until
you explicitly delete them.

Fast Restores Encryption Network Isolation Audit and

You can use any system or
user snapshot to restore
your cluster using the AWS
Management Console or
the Amazon Redshift APIs.
Your cluster is available as
With just a couple of
parameter settings, you
can set up Amazon
Redshift to use SSL to
secure data in transit and
hardware-accelerated AES-
Amazon Redshift enables
you to configure firewall
rules to control network
access to your data
warehouse cluster. You can
run Amazon Redshift
Compliance
Amazon Redshift
integrates with AWS
CloudTrail to enable you to
audit all Redshift API calls.
Amazon Redshift also logs

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 soon as the system 256 encryption for data at
metadata has been rest. If you choose to
restored and you can start enable encryption of data
running queries while user at rest, all data written to
data is spooled down in disk will be encrypted as
the background. well as any backups. By
default, Amazon Redshift
takes care of key
management but you can
choose to manage your
keys using your own
hardware security modules
(HSMs), AWS CloudHSM, or
AWS Key Management
Service.
Customer References
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inside Amazon VPC to
isolate your data
warehouse cluster in your
own virtual network and
connect it to your existing
IT infrastructure using
industry-standard
encrypted IPsec VPN.
all SQL operations,
including connection
attempts, queries and
changes to your database.
You can access these logs
using SQL queries against
system tables or choose to
have them downloaded to
a secure location on
Amazon S3. Amazon
Redshift is compliant with
SOC1, SOC2, SOC3 and
PCI DSS Level 1
requirements. For more
details, please visit AWS
Cloud Compliance.
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Featured Blog Posts

10 Best Practices for Amazon Redshift Spectrum
Amazon Redshift Spectrum allows you to extend the analytic power of
Amazon Redshift beyond data stored on local disks in your data warehouse
to query vast amounts of data in your Amazon S3 “data lake” - without
having to transform and load data. In this blog post, we have collected 10
important best practices for Amazon Redshift Spectrum by grouping them
into several different functional groups.

Read the entire post »

Amazon Redshift Spectrum Extends Data Warehousing Out to Exabytes—

No Loading Required
With Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Amazon Redshift customers can easily
query their data in Amazon S3. Redshift Spectrum operates directly on your

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 source data in its native format (including Avro, CSV, Grok, ORC, Parquet,
RCFile, RegexSerDe, SequenceFile, TextFile, and TSV). This means that no
data loading or transformation is needed.

Read the entire post »

Amazon Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data

In order to allow you to process your data as-is, where-is, while taking
advantage of the power and flexibility of Amazon Redshift, we are launching
Amazon Redshift Spectrum. You can use Spectrum to run complex queries on
data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), with no need for loading
or other data prep.

Read the entire post »

Data Compression Improvements in Amazon Redshift Bring Compression

Ratios Up to 4x
Columnar compression is an important technology in Amazon Redshift. It
both helps reduce customer costs by increasing the effective storage capacity
of our nodes and improves performance by reducing I/O needed to process
SQL requests. Improving I/O efficiency is very important for data
warehousing. Last year, our I/O enhancements doubled query throughput.
Let’s talk about some of the new compression improvements we’ve recently
added to Amazon Redshift.

Read the entire post »

For a full list of blog posts related to Amazon Redshift, see the blog posts
page »

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 Recent Announcements
Date Announcement

Nov 21 Amazon Redshift Introduces Result Caching for Sub-Second Response for Repeat Queries

Nov 20 Amazon Redshift Spectrum is Now Available in Four Additional AWS Regions, and
Enhances Query Performance in All Available AWS Regions

Nov 20 Amazon Redshift Uses Machine Learning to Accelerate Dashboards and Interactive
Analysis

For information about all the new features in Amazon Redshift, see the what's new page »

Start Using Amazon Redshift

Try Amazon Redshift for free. Get 750 free DC1.Large hours per month for 2 months. To start the free trial, create an
AWS account and sign in to the Amazon Redshift console. Then launch an Amazon Redshift cluster and select
DC1.Large for Node Type. To request support for your proof-of-concept or evaluation, click here.

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