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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)

Using cost controls to set actions for Concurrency Scaling

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling adds transient clusters to support concurrent user queries. Concurrency Scaling is charged at a per-second, on-demand rate for a Concurrency Scaling cluster in excess of the free credits that have been applied, but only when it's serving your queries. It provides a 1-minute minimum charge each time a Concurrency Scaling cluster is activated. You can accumulate 1 hour of Concurrency Scaling cluster credits every 24 hours while your main cluster is running, which expires every month. In this recipe, we will learn how to manage costs for Concurrency Scaling to avoid any unexpected surprises. Please also see https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/#Concurrency_Scaling_pricing for more details.

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...