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.