AWS Big Data Blog

Tag: Amazon Redshift

Scale your Amazon Redshift clusters up and down in minutes to get the performance you need, when you need it

Amazon Redshift is the cloud data warehouse of choice for organizations of all sizes—from fast-growing technology companies such as Turo and Yelp to Fortune 500 companies such as 21st Century Fox and Johnson & Johnson. With quickly expanding use cases, data sizes, and analyst populations, these customers have a critical need for scalable data warehouses. […]

Create cross-account and cross-region AWS Glue connections

In this blog post, we describe how to configure the networking routes and interfaces to give AWS Glue access to a data store in an AWS Region different from the one with your AWS Glue resources. In our example, we connect AWS Glue, located in Region A, to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse located in Region B.

Close the customer journey loop with Amazon Redshift at Equinox Fitness Clubs

Clickstream analysis tools handle their data well, and some even have impressive BI interfaces. However, analyzing clickstream data in isolation comes with many limitations. For example, a customer is interested in a product or service on your website. They go to your physical store to purchase it. The clickstream analyst asks, “What happened after they […]

Getting started: Training resources for Big Data on AWS

Whether you’ve just signed up for your first AWS account or you’ve been with us for some time, there’s always something new to learn as our services evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. To help ensure you’re set up for success as you build with AWS, we put together this quick reference guide for Big Data training and resources available here on the AWS site.

Create data science environments on AWS for health analysis using OHDSI

This blog post demonstrates how to combine some of the OHDSI projects (Atlas, Achilles, WebAPI, and the OMOP Common Data Model) with AWS technologies. By doing so, you can quickly and inexpensively implement a health data science and informatics environment.

How I built a data warehouse using Amazon Redshift and AWS services in record time

Over the years, I have developed and created a number of data warehouses from scratch. Recently, I built a data warehouse for the iGaming industry single-handedly. To do it, I used the power and flexibility of Amazon Redshift and the wider AWS data management ecosystem. In this post, I explain how I was able to build a robust and scalable data warehouse without the large team of experts typically needed.

Top 9 Best Practices for High-Performance ETL Processing Using Amazon Redshift

When migrating from a legacy data warehouse to Amazon Redshift, it is tempting to adopt a lift-and-shift approach, but this can result in performance and scale issues long term. This post guides you through the following best practices for ensuring optimal, consistent runtimes for your ETL processes.

Combine Transactional and Analytical Data Using Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift

A few months ago, we published a blog post about capturing data changes in an Amazon Aurora database and sending it to Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight for fast analysis and visualization. In this post, I want to demonstrate how easy it can be to take the data in Aurora and combine it with data in Amazon Redshift using Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

Collect Data Statistics Up to 5x Faster by Analyzing Only Predicate Columns with Amazon Redshift

After loading new data into an Amazon Redshift cluster, statistics need to be re-computed to guarantee performant query plans. By learning which column statistics are actually being used by the customer’s workload and collecting statistics only on those columns, Amazon Redshift is able to significantly reduce the amount of time needed for table maintenance during data loading workflows.