The Twelve Days of AWS: Redshift
To talk about Redshift we probably need to talk about Data Warehousing, as Redshift is a fully managed Data Warehouse package. This is not putting your data in a ‘digital warehouse’ to go and gather virtual dust on the back of a virtual shelf somewhere and is more akin to a single source of truth for the state of a business and its information. Whilst Redshift is based on PostgreSQL and can be queried with normal SQL, it is not meant to be a DataBase per se.
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