Author: Manash Deb

Email is one of the most important methods for business communication across many organizations. It’s also one of the primary methods for many businesses to communicate with their customers. With the ever-increasing necessity to send emails at scale, monitoring and analysis has become a major challenge. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective, […]

This blog post was last reviewed and updated July 2022, to be consistent with the new menu interface launched by the AWS Analytics Automation Toolkit. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, widely popular cloud data warehouse that powers the modern data architecture enabling fast and deep insights or machine learning (ML) predictions using SQL […]

February 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include support for Amazon Redshift Serverless. The Amazon Redshift Node Configuration Comparison utility latest release now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless to test your workload performance. If you want to either explore different Amazon Redshift Serverless configurations or combination of Amazon Redshift Provisioned and Serverless configurations based […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Managing database users through identity federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse, provides browser-based plugins for JDBC/ODBC drivers, which helps you easily implement identity federation capabilities added with multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure your data […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Password-based access control alone is not considered secure enough, and many organizations are adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) as a de facto standard to prevent unauthorized access to systems and data. SSO frees up time and resources for both administrators and end users from […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, widely popular cloud data warehouse that allows you to process exabytes of data across your data warehouse, operational database, and data lake using standard SQL. It offers different node types to accommodate various workloads; you can choose from RA3, DC2, and DS2 depending on your requirements. RA3 is […]

Event–driven applications are becoming popular with many customers, where applications run in response to events. A primary benefit of this architecture is the decoupling of producer and consumer processes, allowing greater flexibility in application design and building decoupled processes. An example of an even-driven application is an automated workflow being triggered by an event, which […]

In this post, I explain how to automate the deployment of an Amazon Redshift cluster in an AWS account. AWS best practices for security and high availability drive the cluster’s configuration, and you can create it quickly by using AWS CloudFormation. I walk you through a set of sample CloudFormation templates, which you can customize as per your needs.