Amazon Redshift: The Definitive Guide: Jump-Start Analytics Using Cloud Data Warehousing

Amazon Redshift powers analytic cloud data warehouses worldwide, from startups to some of the largest enterprise data warehouses available today. This practical guide thoroughly examines this managed service and demonstrates how you can use it to extract value from your data immediately, rather than go through the heavy lifting required to run a typical data warehouse.Analytic specialists Rajesh Francis, Rajiv Gupta, and Milind Oke detail Amazon Redshift's underlying mechanisms and options to help you explore out-of-the box automation. Whether you're a data engineer who wants to learn the art of the possible or a DBA looking to take advantage of machine learning-based auto-tuning, this book helps you get the most value from Amazon Redshift.By understanding Amazon Redshift features, you'll achieve excellent analytic performance at the best price, with the least effort. This book helps you:Build a cloud data strategy around Amazon Redshift as foundational data warehouseGet started with Amazon Redshift with simple-to-use data models and design best practicesUnderstand how and when to use Redshift Serverless and Redshift provisioned clustersTake advantage of auto-tuning options inherent in Amazon Redshift and understand manual tuning optionsTransform your data platform for predictive analytics using Redshift ML and break silos using data sharingLearn best practices for security, monitoring, resilience, and disaster recoveryLeverage Amazon Redshift integration with other AWS services to unlock additional value Read more