Category: Amazon Redshift

This is a guest post by Helen Anderson, data analyst and AWS Data Hero Every year, the Amazon Redshift team launches new and exciting features, and 2020 was no exception. New features to improve the data warehouse service and add interoperability with other AWS services were rolling out all year. I am part of a […]

This is a guest post co-authored by Pradip Thoke of Dream11. In their own words, “Dream11, the flagship brand of Dream Sports, is India’s biggest fantasy sports platform, with more than 100 million users. We have infused the latest technologies of analytics, machine learning, social networks, and media technologies to enhance our users’ experience. Dream11 […]

Since we launched Amazon Redshift as a cloud data warehouse service more than seven years ago, tens of thousands of customers have built analytics workloads using it. We’re always listening to your feedback and, in April 2020, we announced general availability for federated querying to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) […]

Most customers have their applications backed by various sql and nosql systems on prem and on cloud. Since the data is in various independent systems, customers struggle to derive meaningful info by combining data from all of these sources. Hence, customers create data lakes to bring their data in a single place. Typically, a replication […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse. It makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL, your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per day […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL, business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per day and power analytics […]

The post How to migrate a large data warehouse from IBM Netezza to Amazon Redshift with no downtime described a high-level strategy to move from an on-premises Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. In this post, we explain how a large European Enterprise customer implemented a Netezza migration strategy spanning multiple environments, using the AWS […]

You can use federation to access AWS accounts using credentials from a corporate directory, utilizing open standards such as SAML, to exchange identity and security information between an identity provider (IdP) and an application. With this integration, you manage user identities to AWS resources centrally in IdPs. This improves enterprise security and removes the need […]

Data has become an essential part of every business, and its volume, velocity, and variety continue to increase. This has resulted in more complex ETL jobs with interdependencies between each other. There is also a critical need to be agile and automate the workflow—from changing the ETL jobs due to business requirements to deploying it […]

Single sign-on (SSO) enables users to have a seamless user experience while accessing various applications in the organization. If you’re responsible for setting up security and database access privileges for users and tasked with enabling SSO for Amazon Redshift, you can set up SSO authentication using ADFS, PingIdentity, Okta, Azure AD or other SAML browser […]