Amazon’s cloud-based data warehouse Redshift now available

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. Amazon Redshift was first announced as a limited preview at the AWS re:Invent conference, but has now been made generally available from its US East (North Virginia) data center and will be rolled out to other centers in the coming months.

Just like with its other cloud-based offerings, Amazon hopes to attract enterprises to Redshift with the speed and cost of setting up a data warehouse in its cloud. Traditional data warehouse solutions are really expensive and complicated to manage, Amazon Web Services’ Andy Jassy said when the product was launched. Redshift, on the other hand, is about a tenth of the cost, and also automates the deployment and administration, according to Jassy…

With the AWS Management Console or the Amazon Redshift APIs, users can provision a single 2TB data warehouse or as a cluster of 16 2TB nodes or 16TB nodes, by default. The nodes are called High Storage Extra Large (XL) and Storage Eight Extra Large (8XL).In addition to 2TB or 16TB of storage, they also have 15GB or 120GB of RAM. On-demand pricing starts at $0.85 per hour for an XL node and $6.80 per hour for the 8XL node. Reserved instance pricing lowers the effective price to $0.228 per hour or under $1,000 per terabyte per year, according to Amazon…

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