Getting started with Amazon Redshift

Welcome to the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the AWS Cloud. An Amazon Redshift data warehouse is a collection of computing resources called nodes, which are organized into a group called a cluster. Each cluster runs an Amazon Redshift engine and contains one or more databases.

If you are a first-time user of Amazon Redshift, we recommend that you begin by reading the following sections:

• Amazon Redshift management overview – In this topic, you can find an overview of Amazon Redshift.

• Service highlights and pricing – On this product detail page, you can find details about Amazon Redshift service highlights and pricing.

• Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide (this guide) – In this guide, you can find a tutorial of using Amazon Redshift to create a sample cluster and work with sample data.

In this guide, you can find tutorials that walk you through the following:

• Getting started with the Amazon Redshift console

• Connecting to Amazon Redshift

• Getting started with Amazon Redshift clusters and data loading

• Getting started with common database tasks

• Getting started querying your data lake

• Getting started querying data on remote data sources

• Getting started accessing data in other Amazon Redshift clusters

• Getting started training machine learning models with Amazon Redshift data

If your organization is eligible, you might be able to create a cluster under the Amazon Redshift free trial program. To do this, choose Free trial to create a configuration with the dc2.large node type. For more information about choosing a free trial, see Amazon Redshift free trial.

Topics

• Prerequisites
• Amazon Redshift concepts and data processing flow