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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86 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Acts with Integrity
- Performance Enhancing
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Amazon Redshift Reviews
Diego F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2024
Amazing cloud data warehouse!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?
The easy way to deploy and resize a cluster. The auto recommendations to improve performance even Redshift does changes at table level to improve performance i.e distribution type and encode.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Recently we starting to use ML features and it is great because you can create different types of models based just in a query and then predict in your queries. You do not need spend lot of time in development hours.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It would be nice to have the ability to resize the cluster by selecting specific characteristics such as disk size, memory, etc. and not just selecting a node type
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazing cloud data warehouse with bunch of features like ML and json functions. The best to use Redshift it is the possibility to integrate with the AWS ecosystem like S3 to query files directly.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
P K.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2025
One of the best Cloud Data Warehouse provider
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Dec 2025
Reliable at scale but could be easier to operate
Likeliness to Recommend
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
