What is Amazon Redshift?

January 6, 2015 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Like any “big data” initiative, deploying and operating a data warehouse of any size used to be limited to only large enterprises with deep budgets for proprietary hardware and multi-year software licenses. Pay-as-you-go cloud products like Google’s BigQuery and Amazon Redshift change all of that, putting a fully blown, fully managed data warehouse within reach of even the smallest business. This article addresses what Amazon Redshift is (and is not).