Redshift

A Scalable & flexible data warehouse solution

  • Store data & run analytics queries against data
  • You can use it to set up a data warehouse database
    • A SQL-based database service that holds data that should be analyzes, optimized for analytics usage
      • Not RDS, as it’s used for transactional data/daily operations
    • You won’t use this for application typically
  • Great for business intelligence, reporting & visualizations
  • Can also be used to query/analyze data in other data sources (ex. S3)