Amazon Redshift User Manual

• Must contain no more than 255 alphanumeric characters or
hyphens.
• Must not be "Default".
• Must be unique for all security groups that are created by
your AWS account.
Cluster snapshot identifier
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Amazon Redshift Specifications

General

Provider	Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Query Language	SQL
Data Storage	Columnar storage
Security	Encryption at rest and in transit, VPC, IAM
Backup	Automated and manual snapshots
Deployment	Cloud-based
Type	Cloud-based data warehouse service
Primary Use	Data warehousing, analytics
Integration	Integrates with AWS services, BI tools, and ETL tools
Pricing Model	On-demand and reserved instance pricing
Data Compression	Columnar storage with data compression
Performance Optimization	Query optimization