Bringing your own data to Amazon Redshift

In this tutorial, you walk through the process to create an Amazon Redshift cluster by bringing your own dataset to Amazon Redshift. You can use this sample cluster to evaluate the Amazon Redshift service.

Before you begin setting up an Amazon Redshift cluster, make sure that you complete the Signing up for AWS and Determine firewall rules.

In this tutorial, you perform the steps shown following.

Important

The sample cluster that you create runs in a live environment. The on-demand rate is $0.25 per hour for using the sample cluster that is designed in this tutorial until you delete it. For more pricing information, go to the Amazon Redshift pricing page. If you have questions or get stuck, you can contact the Amazon Redshift team by posting on our Discussion forum.

This tutorial isn't meant for production environments and doesn't discuss options in depth. After you complete the steps in this tutorial, you can use Additional resources to find more in-depth information. This information can help you plan, deploy, and maintain your clusters, and work with the data in your data warehouse.

Topics

• Step 1: Create a sample Amazon Redshift cluster
• Step 2: Configure inbound rules for SQL clients
• Step 3: Grant access to one of the query editors and run queries
• Step 4: Load data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift
• Step 5: Try example queries using the query editor
• Step 6: Reset your environment