Chapter 8: Cost Optimization
Amazon Redshift allows you to operate your data warehouse from a few gigabytes to a petabyte in size so that is simple to manage and is cost-effective. The cost is predictable, even with unpredictable workloads, and provides up to 3x better price performance than any other data warehouse with just $1,000 per terabyte per year.
Amazon Redshift provides flexible pricing options, both on-demand and reserved. With reserved instance pricing, you can save up to 75% by committing to a 1-year or 3-year term. There are a number of best practices you can follow to ensure you're getting the best value with Amazon Redshift. This chapter will discuss some of the common cost optimization methods that you can adopt to get the best cost performance.
The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- Amazon Redshift Reserved Instance pricing
- Configuring pause and resume for an Amazon Redshift cluster
- Scheduling...