Amazon Redshift brings the power of scale-out architecture to the world of traditional data warehousing. In Building Your First Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse, you will explore this low cost, cloud based storage that can be scaled up or down to meet your true size and performance needs. First, you will learn to stand up and configure a sample data warehouse. Next, you will explore the internal workings and architecture of Redshift and what makes it so fast. Finally, you will get hands on experience connecting, querying, and building BI and data viz products as well as learn how to secure, maintain, and administer your new platform. By the end of this course, you will be able to scale from gigabytes to petabytes on this high performance column-oriented SQL engine.