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Product Information on Amazon Redshift

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a software that offers a fully managed data warehouse solution designed to handle large-scale data storage and query workloads. It enables users to analyze data across their data warehouse and data lake using standard SQL and integrates with a wide variety of business intelligence tools. The software supports high-performance querying and employs columnar storage, data compression, and parallel processing to increase efficiency. It addresses business challenges related to scalable data management and analytics, facilitating tasks such as reporting, dashboarding, and predictive analytics. Amazon Redshift supports both structured and semi-structured data, allowing organizations to gain insights from diverse data sources while maintaining data security and reliability through comprehensive features for monitoring, encryption, and access control.

Overall experience with Amazon Redshift

SOLUTION ARCHITECT
250M - 500M USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

Adaptabilidad destacada de Redshift pero el manejo avanzado puede ser complejo

4.0
Nov 11, 2025
El servicio de Redshift proporciona altas capacidades de computo y alto rendimiento para uso como DWH. Su adaptabilidad y escalabilidad están muy por encima de otros productos. Administrar y optimizar un cluster puede tener una curva de aprendizaje elevada.
AVP, Data and Analytics
500M - 1B USD, Banking
CRITICAL

Integration With AWS Glue Effective, but S3 Spectrum Performance Remains a Challenge

3.0
Jul 6, 2025
AWS Redshift is a good product to store data in an optimal way from an analytical analysis perspective. Queries provide optimal performance if data is stored in an appropriate distribution style. Only caveat is that Spectrum is not performant enough to do analysis on external data stored on S3.

About Company

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+

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4.4

(545 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
48%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.4

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4.4

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  • AVP, Data and Analytics
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Integration With AWS Glue Effective, but S3 Spectrum Performance Remains a Challenge

    3.0
    Jul 6, 2025
    AWS Redshift is a good product to store data in an optimal way from an analytical analysis perspective. Queries provide optimal performance if data is stored in an appropriate distribution style. Only caveat is that Spectrum is not performant enough to do analysis on external data stored on S3.
  • SOLUTION ARCHITECT
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Adaptabilidad destacada de Redshift pero el manejo avanzado puede ser complejo

    4.0
    Nov 11, 2025
    El servicio de Redshift proporciona altas capacidades de computo y alto rendimiento para uso como DWH. Su adaptabilidad y escalabilidad están muy por encima de otros productos. Administrar y optimizar un cluster puede tener una curva de aprendizaje elevada.
  • PRODUCT MANAGER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Amazon Redshift Offers Reliable Analytics Performance Yet Faces Cost Management Challenges

    4.0
    Oct 24, 2025
    Amazon Redshift delivers strong performance and reliability for large scale analytics. It integrates smoothly with other AWS tools like S3 and QuickSight, making data workflow efficient. Scaling is efortless, and performance tuning are powerful. The only minor challange is managing costs for unpredictable workloads.
  • Data and Analytics Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Redshift review from 20years experienced DBA

    3.0
    Jun 12, 2025
    clustering features are very good, but the management functions and UIs re need more improvement I guess. Related documents are also a little fuzzy. Especially for SQL syntax or system table/view explanation, needs more examples to show some best practices. Redshift is rooted from Posgres, but many of the Postgres SQL scripts are not working on Redshift, so the documents need to be more clear on what is different and what is better.
  • Data Engineer
    10B+ USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Exploring AWS Redshift: Achieving Optimized Data Storage and Sharing

    5.0
    May 7, 2025
    Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service which AWS provides that allows users to analyze large datasets. It's outstanding features like Scalability, Cost - pay for the storage used and number nodes used, massive parallel processing to execute queries in parallel across multiple nodes.
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