What is AWS Redshift ?

Amazon Redshift is a fast, easy to use, cost-effective, peta-byte level, cloud based data warehousing solution. In this course we will understand the features of Redshift in a step-by-step way with an end to end perspective.

AWS Redshift?

What is redshift? Well…here is the definition provided by AWS for it.

Amazon redshift is an enterprise-level, petabyte scale, fully managed, data warehousing service.

At a first glance, it looks a very simple definition but believe me, each of the words has quite a depth in itself.

Data Warehousing — I hope this is not the first time, you are coming across this term. And if you have chosen this course, most probably you are already aware of it. But let’s take a quick glance on it.

According to Oracle, Data Warehouse is a type of data management system that is designed to enable and support business intelligence (BI) activities, especially “analytics”. For instance, if we have an e-commerce system, our business team might be interested in understanding the sales across various products, categories, regions, weeks or months and many more aspects. The data warehousing systems helps in…