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Early last year, Amazon Web Services made Redshift available to the sector. The service promised a “fast and strong, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse within the cloud.” AWS fulfilled that promise, and it’s now making it even better.
Amazon Web Services announced this morning that Redshift customers now have access to what it calls Dense Compute nodes. These new solid state drive-based nodes “enable customers to create even faster, lower price data warehouse with Amazon Redshift.” When AWS says Dense Compute will lower costs, they certainly mean it as 160GB datasets will only cost $0.10 an hour.
“Amazon Redshift has become the fastest-growing service inside the history of AWS by providing customers with a quick, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehousing service for a 10th the cost of traditional solutions,” said Raju Gulabani, Vp of Database Services, AWS. “We were actively engaging with our customers using Amazon Redshift and watching them tap into insights that were previously out of reach to assist grow their businesses. Today, we’re making Amazon Redshift much more accessible to customers, lowering the price of a single node by up to 56 percent while increasing the ratio of CPU, RAM, and that i/O to storage to supply even higher performance.”
With this latest option, Amazon says Redshift customers can now make a choice from Dense Compute nodes and Dense Storage nodes with only a simple API call. For purchasers who need lower than 500GB of information or care more about performance when going above 500GB, you’ll would like to decide on Dense Compute. When you care more about lowering the price of storage, you’ll would like to pick Dense Storage. It can not have an identical performance as Dense Compute, but you could scale as much as 1PB or more.
Before making Dense Compute nodes available to the general public at large, AWS let some in demand Web brands check it out. One such company was Pinterest and it only had nice things to claim about it:
“At Pinterest, we analyze tens of billions of objects, including pins, boards, and places, across our web and mobile properties to realize and optimize the Pinner experience for hundreds of thousands of folk all over the world. Amazon Redshift was a massive win. It’s made big data feel small and enabled our data science team to run the queries they want across a large, rapidly growing data set. Amazon Redshift is straightforward to regulate and with both the Dense Storage and Dense Compute node types, we all know that irrespective of our cost, storage, and function needs, Amazon Redshift is as much as the challenge,” said Mohammad Shahangian, Data Scientist, Pinterest.
AWS notes that Amazon Redshift Dense Storage and Dense Compute nodes are available the next regions: US East, US West, EU, Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). One can learn more about it here.
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