This is the official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. This enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers. This guide is a tutorial designed to walk you through the process of creating a sample Amazon Redshift cluster and working with sample data. You can use this sample cluster to evaluate the Amazon Redshift service. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at
This is the perfect start to getting into the world of Redshift. The step by step tutorial will help you create your cluster and copy data into it. It will also guide you on the various requirements for connecting to the cluster remotely.