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As of January 2025, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift in the Cloud Data Warehouse category stands at 7.8%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Educational Organization
63%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Government
2%
Healthcare Company
2%
Retailer
2%
Insurance Company
1%
Transportation Company
1%
University
1%
Energy/Utilities Company
1%
Comms Service Provider
1%
Construction Company
1%
Real Estate/Law Firm
1%
Media Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Hospitality Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Non Profit
1%

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Ved Prakash Yadav - PeerSpot user
Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Apr 15, 2024
Works as a data warehouse system and collects data from different sources

Pros

"The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good. "

Cons

"In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic. "
Sriram-Natesan - PeerSpot user
Tech Lead at Impetus
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Nov 26, 2024
The ability to create a lot of views or materialized views is beneficial

Pros

"The seamless connection and good scalability on the cloud are valuable features of Amazon Redshift."

Cons

"Improvement in the immediate response and the process of getting into a call could be helpful. "
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LS
IoT Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Dec 28, 2022
Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS

Pros

"The main benefit is that our portal for end users is running in AWS, so we can easily connect it to other AWS services."

Cons

"For people who struggle with IAM or role-based management, the setup isn't easy. "
FNU AKSHANSH - PeerSpot user
Senior Data Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
May 11, 2024
Easy to use, easy to deploy, and the support team is helpful

Pros

"It is very easy to dump data into the tool."

Cons

"Sometimes, it's difficult to get the metadata from Redshift."
BR
Senior Director Data Architecture at Managed Markets Insight & Technology, LLC
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Aug 2, 2023
Offers seamless integration but issues with scalability

Pros

"Redshift allows you to transform different data formats and consolidate them into one Redshift cluster. This means you can transform various siloed data sources like Excel files and CSV files into Redshift. "

Cons

"One area where Amazon Redshift could improve is in adopting the compute-separate, data-separate architecture, which Delta, Snowflake are adopting, and a few others in the cloud data warehouse spectrum. "
MiodragMilojevic - PeerSpot user
Senior Data Archirect at Telenor
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Nov 28, 2019
The product is simple to use but it should be more flexible

Pros

"The product is relatively easy to use because there is no indexing and no partitions. "

Cons

"The product could be improved by making it more flexible. "
GV
Data Engineer at GISbiz
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Jun 20, 2024
It offers good integration capabilities, but it needs to improve the query part

Pros

"With the APIs that are available, it can be easily integrated with other tools."

Cons

"It is not easy to deal with queries in Amazon Redshift and see the same data."
William Antonio Guzmán Bernal - PeerSpot user
AWS Presales Solutions Architect at Escala 24x7 Inc.
Verified user of Amazon Redshift
Sep 29, 2024
Fast data processing with great speed and user concurrency

Pros

"The solution's speed, stability, and user concurrency have been very good."

Cons

"The only minor issue I faced was that it took a bit longer than expected to change the cluster to have more space or storage. "