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:
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Amazon Redshift management overview – In this topic, you can find an overview of Amazon Redshift.
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Service highlights and pricing
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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:
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