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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Overview of Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse managed service that's offered by AWS as an enterprise-class relational database query and management system. A data warehouse is a special type of database that's designed to handle large data loads and provide rapid response times to complex queries. Amazon Redshift uses a combination of massively parallel queries, columnar data storage, and data compression to maximize the query's speeds while minimizing storage costs. For more general information on columnar databases, please refer to Chapter 2, Understanding Database Fundamentals.

Let's take a closer look at the architecture of a Redshift cluster.

Redshift architecture

Similar to RDS Aurora, Redshift operates a cluster topology, which allows it to use multiple nodes to scale and split (or shard) the workload. The following diagram shows a high-level view of how Redshift is deployed:

Figure 7.1 – Redshift cluster...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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