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Overview

Amazon Redshift

4.4

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Pricing

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About Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.

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Amazon Redshift Features

Popular features found in Data Warehouse
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Connectors
Data Extraction
Data Integration
Data Migration
Data Quality Control
ETL - Extract Transfer Load
In-Database Processing
Multiple Data Sources
Reporting/Analytics
More features of Amazon Redshift
Ad hoc Analysis
Ad hoc Reporting
AI/Machine Learning
Dashboard
Data Blending
Data Classification
Data Import/Export
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Forecasting
Key Performance Indicators
Predictive Analytics
Self Service Data Preparation
Visual Analytics

Amazon Redshift User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

50%

38%

13%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

3.7

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

4.1

Filippo C.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

A must-have tool for data warehousing

Amazon Redshift helped us creating standard reports for advertising activities and proved to be a valuable data source for our visual dahsboards

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Amazon Redshift allowed us to organize efficiently all our data, both for reporting and visualization purposes. You can use SQL syntax to query the tables and to extract all the info you need. It supports multiple datatypes with many data compression solutions to save disk space and money. The Amazon Redshift console (on the AWS dashboard) allows you to keep track of your db performances, from query execution time to disk space used, and displays also wise recommendation on how to manage properly your tables.

Cons:

There is nothing I can complain about Amazon Redshift.

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Reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Reliable and easy to set up

Redshift has given us a viable OLAP data warehouse which speeds up all of our analytical workloads. The main benefits we got are speed, ease of use, and reliability, which in turn gave us more time to work on other projects and also much better visibility of our products and business.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Redshift is a reliable cloud data warehouse that's easy to set up especially if your tech infra already runs on AWS.

Cons:

Scaling out/up/down is quite limited with Redshift. The elastic resize is supposed to help on this but it's still limited to just halving/doubling your current cluster. It's not as flexible as Snowflake or BigQuery. Also, the max concurrency of 50 is quite low compared to other cloud data warehouses.

Reasons for choosing Amazon Redshift

Redshift's pricing is straightforward and more predictable compared to other cloud data warehouses. Also, our existing tech infrastructure already runs on AWS so using Redshift gave us much better integration with our current tech stack.

Reasons for switching to Amazon Redshift

Our datasets are getting larger and larger. We needed an OLAP database which was more appropriate for our reporting and analytics workloads.

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Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

Cloud data warehouse tool

Overall amazon redshift can provide the features I want and run my data analysis as a cloud dataware house tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Amazon redshift is a greate cloud data warehouse tool which is highly scalable and can query large amount of data for data analysis, it also provides great dashboard capability.

Cons:

There are some small learning curve to onboard to amazon redshift and to integrate with your external app.

Gordon D.

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Health, Wellness and Fitness

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Amazon Redshift - Average product

In my Opinion AWS redshift is an average product, the syntax and methods you have to use if you are used to using SQL server you will find to be more long winded or searching for alternatives ways. Basic items like parameters in stored procedures after a lot more complex than required.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

It is a good tool for combining multiple data sources into one place. It is not really useful to load data in a delta approach but to fully reload the data source.

Cons:

Its ETL process always wants you to create objects as S3 objects which most of the time is fine but you then end up storing the data twice, once in the 3s and then again in Redshift unless you code to delete the S3 files after loading.

Rashad S.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

11-50 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Perfect one of you want to analyze large amounts of data quickly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked that Redshift makes it easy to analyze large amounts of data quickly. It stores data in a way that speeds up queries, and it works well with other AWS services to help manage data and analytics.

Cons:

I found that Redshift can be expensive when handling very large datasets and sometimes query performance can slow down if the system isn’t optimized properly. It also requires some setup and tuning to get the best results

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Reviewer

Financial Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Works well, but not modern enough

I was satisfied with Amazon Redshift. It works fairly well, but ultimately competitors had a better offer, regarding features, scailing and pricing flexibility, and that is why we moved away from it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Redshift was surprisingly easy to deploy as a total begginer. Once it was up, it was always very stable and we didn't have any issues.

Cons:

Redshift is very much behind its competitors in offering better features for administrators. Its permission structure is ancient (comparing to Snowflake roles) and you're completely on your own for taking care of safety. As expected, we don't have consumer support and no account manager has ever contacted me.

Reasons for choosing Amazon Redshift

Our company uses AWS stack, so i didn't look too much into GCP. But colleagues have said to me it would have been a better choice.

Craig S.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Solid, Reliable Option for Warehouse Storage

Redshift is the bedrock upon which our entire product lives. It stores the underlying data for our reporting, dashboards, etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Redshift is a great starting point for storing data if you're planning to build out a stack using other AWS products (EMR clusters, S3 for browsing, etc.). Redshift is reliable/dependable, we haven't faced uptime issues or anything like that. Easy to query against which is essential for us when pulling reports or performing QA. In previous work I've also been able to hook Redshift up directly to Tableau which has been huge in building ad-hoc reporting directly from our datastore.

Cons:

Integrations aren't always as intuitive as with other tools, but this can be avoided with a solid internal knowledge base.

Yanick T.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Best Selection...

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What's special about Amazon Redshift is that it constantly offers new features to meet the demands of increasingly large data stores. It is undoubtedly the best solution for data storage and processing in the cloud. If you are not yet a user, I highly recommend it.

Cons:

It takes time to get up to speed with all the features of Amazon Redshift.

David W.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Possibly powerful AWS database, but not the greatest UX

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that Redshift is integrated with AWS and able to work with many AWS items, such as S3 buckets, and that it uses IAM for security. There's also a good range of AWS documentation, so in that regard, if you're an AWS environment it offers a lot of integration.

Cons:

Redshift's UX leaves something to be desired. It has a query editor, and now a V2 query editor, but they're not awesome interfaces. Also some things you want to schedule you can only do if you create a Python-based AWS lambda rather than being able to do in Redshift itself - and even then you need to statically import a Python PostgreSQL library to connect to Redshift. It's all kind of disjointed.

Ryan M.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Redshift is great but really expensive

Mostly positive once it is set up but the set up can be extremely challenging

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I like that it was accessible across multiple devices and I like that it was possible to integrate with RStudio. That being said, sometimes my connections would just break if I didn't have the most up to date jar file and it was sometimes hard to figure out which jar file was the right one for the new version.

Cons:

At times, my ODBC connections would just break or give weird errors and after hours of scrolling through the documentation, I am still confused

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