Hello and welcome to this course on Amazon Redshift Spectrum. My name is Stephen Cole and I'll be your instructor for this course. I've been working in the cloud for several years and currently hold many active AWS certifications. My contact information is shown on the screen. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions, comments, or concerns. Alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com and one of our cloud experts will follow up with you.

This course is intended for people that want to learn more about Amazon Redshift Spectrum and how it can be used to perform SQL queries on data stored in Amazon S3. By the end of this course, you will have a greater understanding of:

• How to manage cold data in Redshift using Amazon S3
• What Amazon Redshift Spectrum is and does
• How Spectrum Queries work
• Supported data formats of Spectrum
• File optimization using Spectrum
• Amazon Redshift Spectrum Considerations

To get the most from this course, you should have a basic understanding of Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and data analytics concepts. Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy is valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact support@cloudacademy.com

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