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Category: Amazon Redshift

Solution Architecture

Build and deploy custom connectors for Amazon Redshift with Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Amazon Lookout for Metrics detects outliers in your time series data, determines their root causes, and enables you to quickly take action. Built from the same technology used by Amazon.com, Lookout for Metrics reflects 20 years of expertise in outlier detection and machine learning (ML). Read our GitHub repo to learn more about how to […]

How Roche democratized access to data with Google Sheets and Amazon Redshift Data API

This post was co-written with Dr. Yannick Misteli, João Antunes, and Krzysztof Wisniewski from the Roche global Platform and ML engineering team as the lead authors. Roche is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide. Roche is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. In this […]

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Accelerate self-service analytics with Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with new features. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift as their analytics platform. Users such as data analysts, database developers, and data scientists use SQL to analyze their data in Amazon Redshift data warehouses. Amazon […]

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Amazon QuickSight deployment models for cross-account and cross-Region access to Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS

Many AWS customers use multiple AWS accounts and Regions across different departments and applications within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach to centralize users, data source access, and dashboard management. This post explores how you can use different Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) private connectivity features to connect QuickSight […]

How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their […]

Work with semistructured data using Amazon Redshift SUPER

With the new SUPER data type and the PartiQL language, Amazon Redshift expands data warehouse capabilities to natively ingest, store, transform, and analyze semi-structured data. Semi-structured data (such as weblogs and sensor data) fall under the category of data that doesn’t conform to a rigid schema expected in relational databases. It often contain complex values […]

The following diagram illustrates the architecture of these multi-tenant storage strategies.

Implementing multi-tenant patterns in Amazon Redshift using data sharing

Software service providers offer subscription-based analytics capabilities in the cloud with Analytics as a Service (AaaS), and increasingly customers are turning to AaaS for business insights. A multi-tenant storage strategy allows the service providers to build a cost-effective architecture to meet increasing demand. Multi-tenancy means a single instance of software and its supporting infrastructure is […]

AQUA is available on Amazon Redshift RA3 instances at no additional cost.

The best new features for data analysts in Amazon Redshift in 2020

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 […]

The following diagram shows the workflow to connect Apache Airflow to Amazon EMR.

Dream11’s journey to building their Data Highway on AWS

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 […]

Announcing Amazon Redshift federated querying to Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon RDS for MySQL

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) […]