- Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It uses massively parallel processing and columnar storage to enable fast queries on large data sets for a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehousing.
- Some key features include automatic scaling, continuous backups, integrated security and access controls, integration with other AWS services like S3 and DynamoDB, and simple point-and-click management.
- Customers are seeing significant improvements in performance, often 50-100x faster than alternatives like Hive, as well as large cost reductions of up to 80% compared to on-premises data warehousing.