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Why Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift powers modern data analytics at scale, delivering up to 3x better price-performance and 7x better throughput than other cloud data warehouses. Redshift Serverless helps you scale analytics workloads effortlessly without managing data warehouse infrastructure. Zero-ETL integrations enable near real-time analytics by easily connecting data from streaming services, operational databases, and third-party enterprise applications without the need for complex data pipelines. Amazon Q in Redshift boosts productivity, simplifying SQL authoring through natural language. Get more accurate output from your generative AI applications by using Redshift as your structured knowledge base in Amazon Bedrock. Redshift seamlessly integrates with the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, allowing you to leverage its powerful SQL analytics capabilities on unified data across Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse.

Benefits

2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems

AWS ranks among the 2 highest scoring vendors for all analytics use cases.
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1st in Event Analytics

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2nd in Enterprise Data Warehouse

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2nd in Lakehouse

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Use cases

Amazon Redshift Serverless

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