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Amazon Redshift

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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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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2026 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2026

3 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2026

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Product Impact

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.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

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96 Plan to Renew

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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?

2% Negative

2% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Acts with Integrity
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Distributed Processing

Data Security

Data Integration

Data Management

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Analytics and Reporting

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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Amazon Redshift Reviews

Divneet S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2026

Everything you could ask for in a data warehouse

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Its seamless integration with AWS and it being slightly cheaper is what differentiates it from other products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The data integration with AWS is very easy to manage.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is not as beginner friendly and there is a learning curve at the start, which can lead to complexity inefficiencies.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Focus on optimizing query performance at the start and create documentation for new users to refer to. You are all on your own with Redshift so efficiency is key.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

P K.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2025

One of the best Cloud Data Warehouse provider

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Strong Security, Effectiveness and ease of implementation and integration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of implementation, resources available, processing and computing speed

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price is on higher side

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Price can be slightly recued as it is on higher side when compared to other competetitors

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Gokul V.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2025

Reliable at scale but could be easier to operate

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Its cost-effective columnar storage and compression optimize large analytical workloads.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The MPP architecture delivers fast query performance for complex workloads

What do you dislike most about this product?

Concurrency handling sometimes requires manual optimization

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Test concurrency and workload management early to avoid performance bottlenecks

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Data Quadrant Champion

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

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

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.

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

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

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

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Divneet S.

Everything you could ask for in a data warehouse

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

P K.

One of the best Cloud Data Warehouse provider

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Gokul V.

Reliable at scale but could be easier to operate

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Distributed Processing

Data Security

Data Integration

Data Management

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Analytics and Reporting

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization