What is Amazon Redshift?
It is optimized for data sets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
Amazon Redshift is a tool in the Big Data as a Service category of a tech stack.
Why developers like Amazon Redshift
Data Warehousing
Scalable
SQL
Backed by Amazon
Encryption
Cheap and reliable
Isolation
Best Cloud DW Performance
Fast columnar storage