Hi all,
Quick one today. Did you see this new release? I’m a bit behind the schedule but trying to catch up with the news. It seems very interesting:
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is available in preview. AQUA provides a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that brings compute to the storage layer for Amazon Redshift and delivers up to 10x faster query performance than other cloud data warehouses.
AQUA is a high-speed cache on top of Redshift Managed Storage that can scale out and process data in parallel across many AQUA nodes. AQUA uses AWS-designed analytics processors that dramatically accelerate data compression, encryption, and data processing on queries that scan, filter, and aggregate large data sets. With this new architecture, customers can run queries quicker than ever before, allowing them to query data directly, even at scale, and giving them more up-to-date dashboards, reducing development time, and making system maintenance easier.
It is available for preview in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) regions at this point.
For more references:
- There is a very tech detailed article about it HERE.
- There is also a very nice TechTalk presenting it HERE.
Let’s keep up to date!
