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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By : Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel
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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By: Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel

Overview of this book

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale AWS cloud data warehousing service. It enables you to build new data warehouse workloads on AWS and migrate on-premises traditional data warehousing platforms to Redshift. This book on Amazon Redshift starts by focusing on Redshift architecture, showing you how to perform database administration tasks on Redshift. You'll then learn how to optimize your data warehouse to quickly execute complex analytic queries against very large datasets. Because of the massive amount of data involved in data warehousing, designing your database for analytical processing lets you take full advantage of Redshift's columnar architecture and managed services. As you advance, you’ll discover how to deploy fully automated and highly scalable extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, which help minimize the operational efforts that you have to invest in managing regular ETL pipelines and ensure the timely and accurate refreshing of your data warehouse. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of Redshift use cases, data ingestion, data management, security, and scaling so that you can build a scalable data warehouse platform. By the end of this Redshift book, you'll be able to implement a Redshift-based data analytics solution and have understood the best practice solutions to commonly faced problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Visualizing data using Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, and embeddable ML powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. Visualizing the data warehouse data so that you can use BI tools such as Amazon QuickSight enables users such as business analysts, executive leaders, and more to make data-driven decisions faster. QuickSight dashboards can be accessed from any device and seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need to do the following:

  • Create an IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift and Amazon QuickSight.
  • Create an Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS region eu-west-1 with the retail sample dataset we set up in Chapter 3, Loading and Unloading Data.
  • Create Amazon Redshift cluster master user credentials.
  • Sign up for Amazon QuickSight Standard Edition using the instructions at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/signing...