Amazon Redshift Cookbook. Recipes for building modern data warehousing solutions

Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel, Eugene Kawamoto

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.

Amazon Redshift Cookbook. Recipes for building modern data warehousing solutions - Second Edition

Shruti Worlikar, Harshida Patel, Anusha Challa, Ippokratis Pandis

Amazon Redshift Cookbook offers comprehensive guidance for leveraging AWS's fully managed cloud data warehousing service. Whether you're building new data warehouse workloads or migrating traditional on-premises platforms to the cloud, this essential resource delivers proven implementation strategies. Written by AWS specialists, these easy-to-follow recipes will equip you with the knowledge to successfully implement Amazon Redshift-based data analytics solutions using established best practices.The book focuses on Redshift architecture, showing you how to perform database administration tasks on Redshift. You'll learn how to optimize your data warehouse to quickly execute complex analytic queries against very large datasets. The book covers recipes to help you take full advantage of Redshift's columnar architecture and managed services. You'll discover how to deploy fully automated and highly scalable extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, helping you minimize the operational effort that you invest in managing regular ETL pipelines and ensuring the timely and accurate refreshing of your data warehouse.By the end of this Redshift book, you'll be able to implement a Redshift-based data analytics solution by adopting best-practice approaches for solving commonly faced problems.