Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product which forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquired by Actian), to handle large scale data sets and…

Key facts

First appeared: 2013
Category: database
Problem solved: Amazon Redshift was created to solve the problems of high cost, complexity, and limited scalability associated with traditional on-premises data warehouses. It aimed to provide a high-performance, cost-effective, and fully managed solution for petabyte-scale data analytics in the cloud, making advanced data warehousing accessible to a broader range of businesses.
Platforms: web, AWS Cloud

Related technologies

AWS S3
Amazon QuickSight
AWS Lambda
AWS Kinesis
Power BI
DBT (data build tool)
AWS Glue
Tableau
Apache Spark

Notable users

Netflix
GE
Amazon (internal use)
Yelp
Nasdaq
Johnson & Johnson