Amazon Redshift: The Definitive Guide

Foreword

In today’s data-driven world, organizations are constantly looking to extract actionable business insights from the vast amount of data at their disposal and turn it into a competitive advantage by offering seamless experiences to their customers and streamlining business operations. The ability to efficiently store, manage, and enable access to data assets for all users in the organization in a secure and governed fashion is a critical requirement that requires rethinking the traditional data architectures. Cloud data warehousing has emerged as a central pillar of this modern data architecture in the past decade.

Amazon Redshift, developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been at the forefront of this revolution ever since it was launched as the first cloud data warehouse in 2013, empowering businesses to scale their data warehousing and do it cost effectively unlocking the full potential of their data . Tens of thousands of organizations have adopted Amazon Redshift as the foundational data store for their modern data strategy to serve a wide spectrum of analytics requirements. As a data leader, I am thrilled to introduce this comprehensive guide to Amazon Redshift, which is written for both seasoned data professionals and those new to the world of cloud data warehousing.

In Amazon Redshift: The Definitive Guide, the authors take a solutions architecture approach and offer practical insights, best practices, and real-world examples that will enable you to harness the ...