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Amazon Redshift

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

138 Reviews Write a Review

What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is used to modernize data analytics workloads and deliver insights into businesses. With a fully managed, AI powered, massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, Amazon Redshift drives business decision making quickly and cost effectively. Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver optimal performance at any scale.

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Awards & Recognition

Amazon Redshift won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Product Impact

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

5 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2022

Amazon Redshift Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon Redshift?

1% Negative

1% Neutral

98% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Distributed Processing

Data Security

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Data Integration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Data Management

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Analytics and Reporting

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Amazon Redshift Reviews

Mboyo G.

Role: Finance
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Fantastic Product!

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Highly scalable and secure

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of administration

What do you dislike most about this product?

The software is not fully or 100% managed

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Amazon Redshift is highly adopted and therefore there are plenty of solutions when there is a problem. It is highly scalable and I would recommend it to any company that seeks data storage and analytics

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Efficient Service
Caring
Respectful

Gowrish M.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Easy to use,Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

ease of integration to other bigdata data stores and tools

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

hadoop cluster setup in a minutes to handle your massive amount of data

What do you dislike most about this product?

everything is good only . no negetive comments as off now.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

very good aws service to process and store your bigdata .

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Rachana B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

AWS is highly cost controlled, better!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

easy navigation and installation And high cost control feature on first attempt of use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

default limit on compute resources for cost management

What do you dislike most about this product?

additional costs that dedicated tech support requires.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

teleporting technology hasn’t been developed yet , which may be an extreme addon but good to have feature.

Pros

Trustworthy
Unique Features
Efficient Service
Client Friendly Policies

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Amazon Redshift

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Amazon Redshift Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon Redshift?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Amazon Redshift Reviews

Mboyo G.

Fantastic Product!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Gowrish M.

Easy to use,Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Rachana B.

AWS is highly cost controlled, better!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Distributed Processing

Data Security

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Data Integration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Data Management

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Analytics and Reporting

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization