![]() NOTE: While the Redshift trial is good for 750 hours/month of a DC1.Large node for two months, you will need to put in your credit card information in case you upgrade your cluster or go over usage hours ( which shouldn’t happen if you’re using a single basic DC1.Large node.)Īfter you put in your payment method, you’ll need to choose your support plan. It’s a pretty basic set up (name, email, phone number, personal/company account, etc.) and the good news is that you’ll only need to do this once for any of AWS’s suite of tools. If you don’t have an AWS account already, you’ll need to create one before you can get started with Redshift. So it’s SQL based, it’s bigger and faster…what third thing could make it better? How about being able to manage it via the AWS console? How about spinning a cluster up in 5 mins flat? How about two months to evaluate whether it’s something you want to use long term? Well, it’s true, and in this post, we’re going to walk you through how easy it is to get set up and going.įirst thing’s first: Go to and click the button on the right labeled ‘Start Free Trial.’ 3) It’s a Managed Version of Something Better Than Postgres not just transactionally adding in rows), Redshift is going to perform much better. Especially for larger datasets (up to Petabyte scale! PETABYTE!) performing OLAP (Online Analytic Processing) tasks with complex queries (i.e. ![]() What this means for you as the end user is that it’s much faster and scalable than just Postgres. It’s better! Without getting into the specifics, Redshift is actually a columnar based, massively parallel version of Postgres. If you don’t know SQL, you’re an afternoon of tutorials ( SQL School, Code Academy) away from being 100% there. ![]() If you haven’t but you know SQL, you’re 95% of the way there. If you’ve used Postgres, you’re 99% of the way to understanding Redshift. The reasons behind this popularity are simple: 1) It’s Just PostgresĪt its heart, Amazon Redshift is just PostgreSQL one of the most popular SQL databases over the past 20 years. ![]() (We’re not knocking that Redshift connectivity is an important part of our business too.) It’s become so popular that entire companies exist to get data into it. Do a quick search of data warehousing options and you’ll quickly see that Amazon Redshift has become an overwhelmingly popular alternative to spinning up your own solution. ![]()
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