Lab Overview

Amazon Redshift is a managed data warehouse that allows you to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools. Redshift uses query optimization, columnar storage, parallel execution, and high performance disks to query petabytes of data in seconds. Redshift is valuable for companies that use SQL or existing BI tools and want to analyze large amounts of data with their existing tools. In this Lab, you will learn how to create, query, and resize a Redshift cluster.

Lab Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

• Log in to the AWS Management Console

• Connect to an EC2 instance to communicate with Redshift

• Create and resize a Redshift cluster

• Load data into Redshift

• Query data within Redshift

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

• Basic understanding of local operating system and computer use

• Secure terminal connection software such as Terminal (macOS) or PuTTY (Windows)

Lab Environment

Before completing the lab instructions the environment will look as follows:

After completing the lab instructions the environment should look similar to:

Updates

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab

November 21st, 2018 - Updated Lab to use the new default dc2.large instance type and modified the Lab permission policy to allow resizing the cluster to account for IAM changes in Redshift