Amazon Redshift henceforth available to All Customers: Stakes and Opportunities
Since February 15, 2013, it is henceforth
official, Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com company announced that
Amazon Redshift is now broadly available for use.
For those who unfamiliar
Redshift aims to be a fast and
powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse
service in the cloud,
Henceforth, customers can
launch an Amazon Redshift cluster, starting with a few hundred gigabytes and
scaling to a petabyte or more, for under $1,000 per terabyte per year.
Now let’s read the full
description: ‘’ The traditional data warehouses require significant time and
resource to administer. In addition, the financial cost associated with
building, maintaining, and growing self-managed, on-premise data warehouses
is very high. Amazon Redshift not only significantly lowers the cost of a
data warehouse, but also makes it easy to analyze large amounts of data very
quickly. With Amazon Redshift, customers can dramatically increase query
performance when analyzing virtually any size data set, using the same
SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. Amazon
Redshift uses a number of techniques, including columnar data storage,
advanced compression, and high performance IO and network, to achieve
significantly higher performance than traditional databases for data
warehousing and analytics workloads. Amazon Redshift is fully managed,
automating all the common tasks associated with provisioning, configuring,
monitoring, backing up, scaling, and securing a data warehouse. ‘’
Note: Amazon Redshift is
currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and will be rolled
out to other AWS Regions in the coming months.
Regarding
to Amazon Web Services, it was launched in 2006.
Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of
enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries
around the world. Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different services,
including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS
services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil,
Europe, Japan, Singapore and Australia.
