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AWS re:Invent 2023 - Multi-data warehouse writes through Amazon Redshift data sharing (ANT351)

Summary

• Introduction: Sudipto Das, a senior principal engineer at Amazon Redshift, introduces a new feature called Multi-Data Warehouse Writes through Amazon Redshift Data Sharing.
• Data as a Differentiator: Emphasizes the importance of data as a competitive advantage and the challenges organizations face in leveraging data effectively.
• Amazon Redshift Overview: Describes Redshift as a fully managed, AI-powered, scalable cloud data warehouse with a broad feature set, including support for various data types and integrations with AWS services.
• Redshift Performance: Highlights Redshift's superior price performance compared to other cloud data warehouse alternatives, especially in high-concurrency scenarios.
• Customer Adoption: Tens of thousands of customers across various industries use Redshift to process exabytes of data per day.
• Data Ingestion and Integration: Details Redshift's capabilities for ingesting data from various sources, including S3, Kinesis, Kafka, and zero ETL sources like Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, RDS MySQL, and DynamoDB.
• Redshift Data Sharing: Explains the existing Redshift Data Sharing feature for scaling read workloads across clusters, accounts, and regions without moving data.
• New Feature - Multi-Data Warehouse Writes: Introduces the new feature that allows for scaling write workloads across multiple data warehouses, enabling concurrent writes and ETL workloads.
• Demo: Ryan Zummalleng, a product manager at Redshift, demonstrates the new feature, showing how to set up and use data sharing for write operations, including granular permissions and cross-account and cross-region capabilities.

Insights

• Data Volume and Utilization: The statistic from IDC and studies from Forrester and Accenture highlight the exponential growth of data and the gap in organizations' ability to leverage it effectively.
• Redshift's Market Position: Redshift's positioning as a leader in price performance is a key selling point, especially for organizations looking to optimize costs while scaling their data workloads.
• Customer Use Cases: The mention of Peloton's architecture and cost savings illustrates the practical benefits and cost efficiencies that can be achieved with Redshift's multi-cluster architecture.
• Zero ETL Journey: The continuous investment in zero ETL sources indicates AWS's commitment to simplifying data ingestion and reducing the complexity of data pipelines.
• Snapshot Isolation Default: The shift to snapshot isolation as the default for serverless offerings suggests a focus on improving concurrency and transactional correctness in Redshift.
• Granular Permissions and Ease of Use: The new feature's granular permissions and the ability to connect directly to data share databases via JDBC, ODBC, and Python drivers enhance security and developer experience.
• Cross-Account and Cross-Region Writes: The extension of data sharing to support writes across accounts and regions is a significant development, enabling more complex and distributed data architectures.
• Transactional Truncate: The ability to perform transactional truncate operations within multi-statement transactions is a notable improvement, indicating ongoing enhancements to Redshift's transactional capabilities.