Introduction to Amazon Redshift: Data Management Essentials

Amazon Redshift is an approachable, easy-to-use option for storing, querying, and managing large amounts of data—offering fast, cloud-based analytics and data warehousing at scale. In this course, instructor Jeremy Villeneuve—the founder of IT consulting firm Halvanta—gives you a quick, hands-on introduction to the essential perks of Redshift. Jeremy begins with the basics, offering beginner-level coverage of big data fundamentals, Redshift, data warehousing, and relational database management. He then helps you explore the Redshift user interface, get your data into Redshift, and start writing your own queries using a hands-on tutorial and sample dataset. If you’re an early-career developer, Jeremy shows you what you need to know to get the most out of Redshift as a product, including best practices for data optimization, data distribution, storage, cost management, and more.

Learning objectives
Understand key terms around big data.
Explain the fundamentals of relational databases and how they apply to managing data in Amazon Redshift.
Use Redshift with a sample dataset by following along with a hands-on tutorial.
Discuss best practices for using Redshift.