Amazon Redshift is a fast and fully managed data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon affirms that the Redshift data warehouse delivers ten times faster performance than other data warehouses utilizing Machine Learning techniques. The Redshift data warehouse can be scaled up to petabyte or more as per the requirements.

Following are some of the benefits of using Amazon Redshift:

• Parallel queries across multiple nodes can be performed
• Automatically backed up to Amazon S3
• Cost-effective over other data warehouse solutions
• Built-in security as Amazon Redshift provides end-to-end encryption and enables users to configure firewall rules