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Amazon Redshift Overview

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What is Amazon Redshift?

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.

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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.

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It provides easy to use and implement yet very powerful columns based data solution that helps in faster query performance. Also cross database ana...
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It has a great pay as you go pricing which is useful for small companies and has amazing performance with little issues.
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Best thing is its autoscaling and multi parallell processing architecture. we can easily scale up and down the cluster size based on our data size. Has many features such like to manage and monitor the jobs.It is more secure and allow us to encrypt our data too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

It only runs on AWS and felt little costly when compared to other sata warehouse service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

Best cloud data warehouse tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are maintaining some of our health care data in Redshift. We have moved and processed the data from on premise servers to redshift for better performance. It saved our cost compared to traditional data warehouses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Redshift spectrum is a great tool which allows users to query against the S3 data without brining the data in Redshift this greatly enhances the overall productivity of the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

When there is a situation of getting maxed out on onr of the clusters, the need to replicate data to multiple clusters ends up costing us too much. There should be a proper separation of storage and computation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Redshift enables you to expand your data warehouse queries to your data lake. It has massive parallel processing which enable it to provide lightening fast performances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

it's the best cloud data warehouse with best computing engines. I like it's processing speed and performance for SQL queries. Also I like it's connectivity with BI engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Nothing about dislikes,if pricing can lesser then it's good else it is fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use redshift data warehouse for oil gas industrie's sourcing and procurement, material requirement planning and warehouse management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

1. Super easy UI

2. The feature to kill running queries.

3. Dashboard to monitor health of the cluster

4. WLM user query groups.

5. Backup and restore

6. Excellent customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

I have not come accross any disadvantages or short commings till yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

Highly recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are dumping data from various applications into redshift which is used as a data source to perform analytical operations on all the etl tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

We can store DB as a snapshot and switch it on & off when we need it, we can apply the same SQL Query here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

The complex queries in SQL can need many tweaking while using redshift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Database operations, upscale the server as when needed and downscale when not needed, fast quering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

I used redshift to analyse data collectively. I migrated data from various data sources like RDS MySQL,PSQL and MongoDB and so on. So once i had data from this all data sources, I was able to run AND statement queries in redshift to analyse this collective data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

It's not that cost efficient unless and until you purchase reserved instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped to run AND statement queries on the migrated data which was present in different data sources to analyse data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Redshift features, performance and support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Pricing, initial adoption of the tool and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

MPP way of architecture means queries execute quickly matter how large the data is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Performance tunning is a bit headache this needs to be given some thought too as there is very less material available online Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Classic resize on which AWS just worked last week will help save lots of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

- it is easily scalable

- very cost effective at low usage

- very easy to use if you have used similar tools in the past Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Apart from requiring some training, I think there is not much to dislike about the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are trying to build an in-house data warehousing solution and makenit cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

No downtime and user friendly. Its was my first time learning opportunity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

More learning content for new users to experience and adapt to new tech Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps my analyse my raw data into mean full charts, helps my in ETL and create a datawareshouse for easy slicing and dicing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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