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Amazon Redshift Overview

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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Recent Amazon Redshift Reviews

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Vijay K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Amazon Redshift Review"
Amazon Redshift is one of the best data warehouse platforms provided by AWS. It uses SQL to analyze structured, semi-structured, and unstructure...
Happy M.
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Happy M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A complete data warehouse solution with scalability"
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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4.5 out of 5
"Great data warehouse solution"
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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Amazon Redshift Demo - Amazon Redshift Setup
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Getting stored procedures and resizing. And the Redhisft spectrum that I liked along woth powerful redshift engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

user contention. As many more users try to connect to cluster , the ckuster runs slow. the only alternative right now is only to spin up a different cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

NW migration from Netezza to DW Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Columnar, Support for analytics, Ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Work load management, Scaling needs a minor downtime and making cluster as read-only. CPU and Storage are tightly coupled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

Check Snowflake where CPU and Storage are decoupled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Building Consumer data analytics. Huge data volume needed a datawarehouse solution that can handle highly complex analytical questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

The ability to aggregate and summarize large datasets enables our clients to generate insights rapidly from their datasets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Concurrency limits and the inability to scale up or out quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are enabling our clients to understand their business better by surfacing up datasets from multiple lines of business and functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Redshift has allowed us to scale by making it possible to perform analytics on big data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

It would be nice if there were a built in SQL job runner and archiving service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

Also look into Redshift Spectrum Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed an anlytics cluster to handle our user interaction data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

It's fast when querying by the key and is easily accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Vacuums or table deletes are required to not bloat tables. The queue to query production level databases can take hours due to when there's hundreds of users in queue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating business metrics by ingesting user logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

As a compliance professional, aws console and the accompanying support documentation makes it accessible for non-technology personnel to understand the security risk associated with AWS hosted Redshift database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

nothing, great product. i would recommend redshift to anyone as a data warehouse solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

datawarehouse solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Redshift is easy to access, and very quick when querying tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

I have not used Redshift enough to really find any flaws yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

Use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to do large queries against data without having to do it on a production DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Time to value using data at the core, ease if setting it up in no time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

compute is not pay as you use, as i need to block computed as well even if i am not using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

I'm impressed by the performance benefits of the columnar data storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

The dependencies feature can be useful but would be better if it checked usage at a column level rather than just the whole database object Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Faster reporting and querying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

the ability to scale to the volumn of data and processing is what we were looking for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

not so much as a dislike but the user needs to model the proper data structure otherwise the product slows down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Global clinical supply Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.