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Introduction to Amazon Redshift Serverless

“Hey, what’s a data warehouse?” John Doe, CEO and co-founder of Red.wines, a fictional specialty wine e-commerce company, asked Tathya Vishleshak*, the company’s CTO. John, who owned a boutique winery, had teamed up with Tathya for the project. The company’s success surged during the pandemic, driven by social media and the stay-at-home trend. John wanted detailed data analysis to align inventory and customer outreach. However, there was a problem – producing this analysis was slowing down their online transaction processing (OLTP) database.

“A data warehouse is like a big database where we store different data for a long time to find insights and make decisions,” Tathya explained.

John had a concern, ...

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