- Alright so let's talk about Amazon Redshift.
Amazon Redshift is Amazon's petabyte scale data warehouse.
Just like RDS, it's fully managed.
It is based on a fork of Postgres 8.0.2.
Very much so as a result, it is SQL compliant
so you can connect to your Redshift cluster
with all of the drivers that you're used to using.
JDBC and ODBC drivers.
And run SQL queries that you have been running in Postgres.
Now under the hood,
Redshift is a clustered service
so it makes use of multiple nodes.
You get to choose how many nodes you want
and based on those number of nodes
will also determine the amount of storage
that your cluster will receive.
And Redshift uses some really interesting technologies
developed by Amazon
to run these queries in parallel across those nodes
across very large data sets.
So these are ideal for OLAP and BI applications.
Amazon Redshift fulfills a really interesting place
within Amazon Web Services
providing analytics and business intelligence
at a vast amount of scale.
So again, Amazon Redshift fully managed, just like RDS,
and it is a petabyte scale data warehouse.