Mastering AWS Redshift: Optimizing and Reducing Costs

Finding savings opportunities in your AWS environment is more important than ever, but drilling down into the right places can be a bit of a slog due to the inherent complexity of a modern, sophisticated cloud footprint. Where do you even begin? Where do the quickest wins and the biggest opportunities lie?

Discover AWS's solution for data warehousing, Redshift: learn about the direct relationship between cost and workload performance, explore how table and schema design can lead to cost savings, and acquaint yourself with features such as the pause and resume function, data tiering with Redshift Spectrum and concurrency scaling. Investigate the benefits of using EventBridge for automation with Lambda, and find out how Redshift Advisor can provide pertinent performance and cost optimization suggestions for your cluster. The video also highlights the importance of right sizing and reservations for cost optimization.

00:00 Introduction to AWS Redshift
00:19 Optimizing Redshift for Cost Savings
00:57 Pause and Resume Feature in Redshift
01:15 Data Tiering with Redshift Spectrum
01:49 Understanding Spectrum Pricing
02:07 Offloading Data to S3 for Cost Reduction
02:21 Concurrency Scaling in Redshift
03:18 Utilizing Redshift Advisor for Performance and Cost Optimization
03:48 Right Sizing and Reservations for Cost Optimization

This clip is from DoiT's "Maximizing your AWS Cost Savings" Webinar in which our experts will walk you through some of the best opportunities for cloud savings in your AWS environment, and how you can use DoiT’s combination of technology and on-demand expertise to fully optimize your costs. Register at the link below for more information.

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