Amazon Redshift Introduction

This course introduces you to foundational concepts to help you understand how Amazon Redshift can help advance your goal. With Amazon Redshift users can efficiently analyze large volumes of structured and semi-structured data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift connects to various data sources and uses special hardware and machine learning (ML) to offer improved performance. You will learn how businesses use Amazon Redshift and the benefits of Amazon Redshift. Introduction courses are more fundamental than Getting Started courses.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 15 minutes

Activities

This course includes a video, knowledge check questions, and suggestions for additional resources.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Identify the purpose of Amazon Redshift
• Identify possible uses for Amazon Redshift
• Recognize the benefits and considerations for adopting Amazon Redshift

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Business users
• Data engineers
• Data scientists
• Decision-makers
• Developers
• Pre-sales consultants
• Infrastructure engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Basic technical and cloud knowledge

Course outline

Amazon Redshift - Introduction

• Lesson objectives
• AnyCompany use case story
• Introduction to Amazon Redshift
• Knowledge check