Amazon Redshift User Manual

4. On the NODE CONFIGURATION page, do the following.When all the settings are as you want them,
click Continue.
a. In the Node Type box, click a node type.
The CPU, Memory, Storage, and I/O Performance information will display the corresponding
information for the node that you select.
b. In the Cluster Type box, click a cluster type.
c. In the Number of Compute Nodes box, specify the number of nodes that the cluster will contain.
If you select Cluster Type as Single Node, the number of compute nodes is set to one.
In the following example, the node type dw.hs1.xlarge is selected, No Preference for availability
zone is selected, Cluster Type as Multi Node is selected and two nodes are specified.
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Amazon Redshift Management Guide
Creating a Cluster

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