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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)

Technical requirements

You will need the following technical requirements to complete the recipes in this chapter:

  • Access to the AWS Console.
  • An AWS administrator should create an IAM user by following Recipe 1 – Creating an IAM user in the Appendix. This IAM user will be used in some of the recipes in this chapter.
  • An AWS administrator should create an IAM role by following Recipe 3 – Creating an IAM role for an AWS service in the Appendix. This IAM role will be used in some of the recipes in this chapter.
  • An AWS administrator should deploy the AWS CloudFormation template (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Amazon-Redshift-Cookbook/blob/master/Chapter03/chapter_3_CFN.yaml) and create two IAM policies:

    a. An IAM policy attached to the IAM user, which will give them access to Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon EMR.

    b. An IAM policy attached to the IAM role, which will allow the Amazon Redshift cluster to access Amazon...