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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By : Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel
Book Image

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)

Configuring pause and resume for an Amazon Redshift cluster

Customers generally have a set of development, test, and production workloads. Here, production workloads must be up and running 24x7. The same can't be said for the development and test workloads. To make cost-conscious decisions, customers can use the pause and resume feature within Amazon Redshift to only resume for the development and test clusters when they are in use, and then pause them when they're not in use. Customers can perform this action on-demand or even schedule this for a specific interval.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the following:

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

How to do it…

In this recipe, you will learn how to pause and resume the Amazon Redshift cluster using the AWS Console. Let's get started:

  1. Open the Amazon Redshift console: https://console.aws.amazon...