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Price Performance Improvements in Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Redshift offers up to 3x better price performance compared to alternative cloud data warehouse systems.
- Redshift has made several performance enhancements in the past 6-9 months:
- Improved first query response times for dashboarding queries.
- 143x faster data sharing performance for the first queries and up to 4x faster for continuously updated data.
- Improved autonomics algorithms for faster generation of sort keys and distribution keys.
- Introduced ra3.L instances with compute and storage separation for better scalability.
- Onboarded Graviton instances on Redshift Serverless for up to 30% better price performance.
Redshift Data Sharing and Multi-Warehouse Writes
- Redshift Data Sharing allows customers to share live and transactionally consistent data across multiple Redshift data warehouses.
- Common deployment patterns include hub-and-spoke and data mesh architectures.
- The newly launched Multi-Warehouse Writes feature enables scaling of data processing workloads like ETL across separate compute resources.
Redshift Serverless
- Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and scales compute based on workloads, allowing customers to pay only for what they use.
- Recent enhancements include support for 1024 capacity configuration, private link, and air-driven scaling and optimizations.
- Customers have seen up to 5.3x better performance at 70% of the cost using the air-driven scaling feature.
AWS Sagemaker Lakehouse
- Sagemaker Lakehouse is a new unified, open, and secure lakehouse capability within the Amazon Sagemaker platform.
- It brings together data from S3 data lakes and Redshift data warehouses into a unified view accessible through Iceberg APIs.
- Integrated fine-grained security controls and trusted identity propagation enable consistent data access across the stack.
- Redshift can now query Iceberg-formatted data lakes with up to 3x better performance, and create incremental materialized views for high-performance dashboarding.
Simplifying Ingestion and Near-Real-Time Analytics
- Automated ingestion capabilities like Auto Copy and Streaming Ingestion simplify loading data from S3, Kinesis, Kafka, and databases into Redshift.
- Redshift Zero-ETL allows secure, low-latency ingestion of data from operational databases and applications like Salesforce.
Generative Capabilities in Redshift
- Redshift now supports natural language-based SQL generation in the query editor.
- Integration with Bedrock allows invoking foundational AI models like sentiment analysis directly within SQL queries.
Charters Communications Journey with Redshift
- Charter migrated from a legacy on-premises data warehouse to Redshift in 10 months.
- Key accelerators were automation, self-service code conversion, persona-based training, and a robust unit testing strategy.
- The migration delivered 18% improvement in SLA adherence, 35% reduction in operating costs, and significantly improved Disaster Recovery capabilities.
- Charter is now looking to further modernize their data platform by integrating open formats, BI/AI capabilities, and leveraging Redshift's latest features like data sharing and lakehouse integration.
