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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)

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor provides you with a summarized dashboard and detailed real-time guidance to help you provision your resources while following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help you optimize your AWS infrastructure, reduce your overall costs, increase security and performance, and monitor your service limits.

AWS Trusted Advisor provides cost optimization checks for unutilized Amazon Redshift clusters. It also provides cost optimization checks for the on-demand Amazon Redshift clusters that can benefit from Reserved Instance cost pricing, thus providing you with significant cost savings.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the following:

  • An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift and AWS Trusted Advisor
  • An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS Region eu-west-1

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will use AWS Trusted Advisor to identify opportunities for potential savings:

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