AWS Big Data Blog

Ranjan Burman

Author: Ranjan Burman

Automate Amazon Redshift Advisor recommendations with email alerts using an API

Amazon Redshift Advisor offers recommendations about optimizing your Redshift cluster performance and helps you save on operating costs. In this post, we show you how to use the ListRecommendations API to set up email notifications for Advisor recommendations on your Redshift cluster. These recommendations, such as identifying tables that should be vacuumed to sort the data or finding table columns that are candidates for compression, can help improve performance and save costs.

Enable Multi-AZ deployments for your Amazon Redshift data warehouse

November 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for provisioned RA3 clusters. Originally published on December 9th, 2022. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte scale cloud data warehouse that enables you to analyze large datasets using standard SQL. Data warehouse workloads are increasingly being used with mission-critical […]

Simplify data analysis and collaboration with SQL Notebooks in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2.0

Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2.0 is a web-based analyst workbench that you can use to author and run queries on your Amazon Redshift data warehouse. You can visualize query results with charts, and explore, share, and collaborate on data with your teams in SQL through a common interface. With SQL Notebooks, Amazon Redshift Query Editor […]

Automate Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse management using AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CLI

Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage the instance type, instance size, lifecycle management, pausing, resuming, and so on. It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads, and you pay only for what […]

Best practices to optimize your Amazon Redshift and MicroStrategy deployment

This is a guest blog post co-written by Amit Nayak at Microstrategy. In their own words, “MicroStrategy is the largest independent publicly traded business intelligence (BI) company, with the leading enterprise analytics platform. Our vision is to enable Intelligence Everywhere. MicroStrategy provides modern analytics on an open, comprehensive enterprise platform used by many of the […]