Category: Amazon Redshift

February 2021 update – Please refer to the post Writing to Apache Hudi tables using AWS Glue Custom Connector to learn about an easier mechanism to write to Hudi tables using AWS Glue Custom Connector. In this post, we include the modified Apache Hudi JARs as an external dependency. The AWS Glue Custom Connector feature […]

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 […]

December 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. 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 […]

This post was last reviewed and updated June, 2022 to update the code and service used on the AWS CloudFormation template. 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 […]

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 […]

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Customers tell us that they want extremely fast query response times so they can make equally fast decisions. This post presents the recently launched, […]