Is a Column type.

Petabyte-scale Data warehouse, uses servers (not serverless)
One-AZ, uses node infrastructure:
Leader node for query input, plan, and aggregation
Compute node partitioned into slices, performs queries on data.
VPC Security controls, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch monitoring
RedShift Enhanced VPC Routing traffic enabled is routing based on NACL, custom DNS and GWs.

  • OLAP (Column based) not OLTP (row/transaction)
  • Pay as you use … similar structure to RDS
  • Direct Query AWS S3 Simple Storage Service using Redshift Spectrum
  • Direct Query other DBs using federated query
  • Integrates with AWS tooling such as Quicksight
  • SQL-ike interface JDBC/ODBC connections

Data can be imported with S3, AWS DynamoDB, Data Firehouse or AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Redshift Resilience and Recovery

Default backups Automatic and manual