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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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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is easy to use, very flexible for data analytics, reporting, data mungling. It connects smoothly with AWS S3, which makes data import/export work seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Sometime tables need to be defined in a certain way to save storage and distribution key needs to be defined explicitly. It is not very user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Basically we use AWS RS for data processing. we can bring multiple sources of data into one platform and perform data processing at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fastprocessing, ease of use, postgress is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Compile time is slow on initial queryn - impacts self serve users greatly as their querys are very adhoc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Enterprise data warehouse, BI reporting, selfserve BI, Aggregations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ease of copying from an S3 data lake saved us lots of development time, and it's ability to scale as our needs grow is huge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Low number of available databases per cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Simple copying from CSV and ORC files already in your S3 data lake is a great benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It’s replaced our SQL Server analytics database for many of our customers. The scalability with respect to performance is really stupid easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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availablity of database all the time with no maintenance downtime and scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

performance could be better when the consumption is more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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data warehosue on cloud, make it easy scalable and resource independant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The cost vs performance is so much faster than any other solutions I have used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

It is hard to replicate the data off site in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Performance without spending a ton Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Enhances performance of my platform drastically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Advisors from AWS not easy to comy by. Need an easier way to connect to AWS teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Performance and scaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Managed Service capability with performance and scalability.The feature to Flashback a table from a particular snapshot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Lack of in-depth documentation on Workload Managment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Columnar storage with fast data retrival Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

case sensitiveness in join conditions and advanced data processing functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Business intelligence reporting and data analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Performance, ditribution, great storage and easy to spin up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

no stored procedures, no auto sacaling.. no constraints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Storing and quering big data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

My favorite thing about redshift is its broad base of SQL functionality. This has helped me find quick solutions to my problems in many cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

I dislike the storage and compute are coupled on Redshift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use redshift to store ecommerce data. It is a great database to put a BI tool like Looker on top of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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