What's new
Read our What's New posts to learn about recent features and announcements for Amazon Redshift and Redshift Spectrum.
Need help with your proof-of-concept?
If you are building a proof-of-concept solution with Amazon Redshift, we recommend that you read Building a Proof of Concept for Amazon Redshift. To request assistance from us for your proof-of-concept, click here.
Documentation
Getting Started Guide: Introduces you to Amazon Redshift, helps you set up an account, and walks you through a simple example to use Amazon Redshift for the first time. Also provides tips and links to advanced product features and resources. HTML | PDF | Kindle
Amazon Redshift API Reference: Describes all the API operations for Amazon Redshift in detail. It also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols. HTML | PDF
Amazon Redshift CLI Guide: Describes the command line interface for Amazon Redshift in detail. It provides basic syntax, options, and usage examples for each command. HTML
Best practices
Loading Data: Load your data efficiently using COPY commands, bulk inserts, and staging tables. Learn more »
Designing Data Warehouse Schema: Design your database for high query performance, low storage and memory requirements, and minimal I/O operations. Learn more »
Tuning Query Performance: Tune your queries for maximum performance using these tips and tactics. Learn more »
Tuning and management scripts & tools
Community contributed functions & tools
Blog posts
Featured Blog post
Learn to build a data warehousing solution with new AWS course
by Kumar Kumaraguruparan, 11/15/2021
We have a rich set of blog articles that provide use case and best practices guidance to help you get the most out of Amazon Redshift. Access our full list of blog articles through the resources below.
Read more Amazon Redshift articles on the AWS News Blog.
Learn about best practices, feature capabilities, and customer use cases on the AWS Big Data Blog.
Learn how to migrate from an on-premises data warehouse to Amazon Redshift, and more, on the AWS Databases Blog.
Webinars
Data warehousing 2019 year-in-review and 2020 predictions
Hear about the four areas the Amazon Redshift team invested in on behalf of our customers in 2019, and to hear predictions about what to expect in 2020.
Unify your data warehouse and data lake with AWS
Learn how to break down data silos with a lake house approach to data warehousing in this 300-level Tech Talk.
Practical tips for migrating your IBM Netezza data warehouse to the cloud
Understand how to prep and plan for a migration from IBM Netezza to Amazon Redshift.
Stay up to date with AWS webinars.
Learn more about Amazon Redshift pricing