
Redshift Test Drive is an open-source tool that helps you find the optimal Amazon Redshift configuration for your workload by automatically comparing performance across different instance types and cluster sizes.


<div><p>This article introduces Redshift Test Drive, an open-source tool for evaluating optimal Amazon Redshift configurations for your workload.</p><ul><li>Redshift Test Drive extracts queries from source logs and replays them against target configurations</li><li>ConfigCompare utility automates performance testing across different Redshift instance types in parallel</li><li>Uses AWS CloudFormation, Step Functions, Lambda, and Batch for orchestration</li><li>Includes self-hosted UI for analyzing and comparing replay performance metrics</li><li>Supports testing Provisioned clusters (DC2, RA3) and Redshift Serverless configurations</li><li>Replicates external objects via Spectrum and Glue for complete workload simulation</li><li>Provides detailed performance analysis including query latency percentiles and error distribution</li></ul><p>Redshift Test Drive simplifies finding the best data warehouse configuration by automating workload comparison across multiple deployment options.</p></div>


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